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Rahinnane Castle, County Kerry, Ireland

Rahinnane Castle was built in the village of Ventry on the Dingle Peninsula during the 15th or 16th century by the Knight of Kerry. The castle was built on the site of an earlier ringfort and is surrounded by a thirty foot deep ditch.  Rahinnane was taken by Sir Charles Wilmot in 1602 and destroyed during the Cromwellian wars.

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Dunmahon Castle, County Louth, Ireland

Dunmahon Castle is a four storey tower house that was built in the 15th century and inhabited until the end of the 17th century. It was a stronghold of the Plunket family. The castle was the site of a massacre in the 1640’s. Accounts of what happened vary, although Cromwell’s troops are mentioned in the reports, with the number slain said to be about 250-300 people.

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Kanturk Castle, County Cork, Ireland

Construction on Kanturk Castle was started in 1609 by by Dermot MacDonagh MacCarthy, who having been captured after the Battle of Kinsale in 1601, was eventually pardoned by the government. It was never completed, and remained a shell without a roof for the ensuing centuries. Either MacCarthy ran out of money, or a suspicious government terminated its construction - perhaps wary of its intended purpose.

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