1600s – St. Leger’s Castle, Ardee, Co. Louth
One of two castles on the main street and known locally as the Court House,
1610 – Belfast Castle, Belfast, Co. Antrim
John de Courcy built a castle on what is now Castle Street in the city centre in the 12th century.
1618 – Monea Castle, Co. Fermanagh
Monea Castle is situated where a Maguire castle would have been based prior to the Plantation and a crannog is still visible alongside.
1622 – Kirkiston Castle, Co. Down
Constructed in 1622 by Roland Savage, on the site of a ninth-century round tower.
1630 – Athlumney Castle, Navan, Co. Meath
Constructed over several centuries – the classic form of the fortified Irish tower house visible as part of the Jacobean mansion.
1630s – Inchmore Castle, Co. Kilkenny
“This highly picturesque ruin is situated on the Nore, about four miles from Kilkenny,
1640 – Lemenagh Castle, Co. Clare
Lemenagh Castle was both a castle (1480) and fortified house (1640) and was one of the principal strongholds of the O’Brien’s.
16th C. – Taaffe’s Castle, Carlingford, Co. Louth
A sizable fortified town house that belonged to the rich mercantile Taaffe family who became Earls of Carlingford in 1661.
1756 – Glenarm Castle, Co. Antrim
Architect: Christopher Myers / William Vitruvius Morrison
There has been a castle at Glenarm since the 13th century,
1765 – Malahide Castle, Co. Dublin
The estate began in 1185, when Richard Talbot, a knight who accompanied Henry II to Ireland in 1174,
