Ross Castle

Presentation

The castle is a typical bastion of the Irish Middle Ages. The keep, equipped with watch tower S square diametrically opposed, is protected from a wall defended by turns of angle rounds.

It is the ancestral stronghold of the clan O' Donoghue but changes hands at the conclusion of the revolt of Desmond in the Années 1580. The legend tells that O' Donoghue fell or was involved window of large the room located at the top of the castle and disappeared in water from the lake with its horse, its table and its bibiothèque. It is said that he lives now in a large palace at the bottom of the lake from where he supervises closely all that he can see.

Among the last fortified towns to go to Roundheads Oliver Cromwell during the Eleven Year old War, it capitulates only after the arrival of artillery reinforcements by inland waterway, giving place to a historical gag: with its construction, a prophecy predicts that the fortress would never fall, except if an attack were launched since the lake. Ludlow, chief of the detachment, advanced then towards the castle by the lake after unfruitful terrestrial attacks. Without fighting, believing prophecy being carried out, the garrison went, offering an good example of auto-intoxication.

The weather is possible nowadays to be a turn in boat at the beginning of the castle in summer, allowing the visit of the Innisfallen island located on the lake.

See too

List of Irish castles

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