Flying over Doonmore Castle, County Clare, Ireland, on a windy day

Arial views of Doonmore Castle, County Clare, Ireland. Filmed in 4K with a DJI Mavic 3 on a bright but very windy day.

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Doonmore
The name, Doonbeg, is derived from Dun Beag, meaning, the small fort and it sits alongside the Doonbeg River. The village grew up around Doonbeg Castle which is only 1.5 km distance from Doonmore Castle (   • Flying over Doonbeg Castle, County Cl...  ) and it is beside the Doonmore Cemetery and the lake Doonbeg Lough. The castle is on the shore and is built beside the pier.

The castle was built by Philip Mac Sheeda Nor McCon. The Annals of the Four Masters refer to it as Dun More Mhic an Fhearnachaigh. At the end of the 16th century, the castle was in the possession of Donough Mac Dermot Mac an Fhearmachaigh, but Mahon MacGorman held title to one third of the castle and all of Donough’s land. Sir Daniel O’Brien of Dough owned the castle in 1574. Two decades later, in 1594, Mahon MacGorman assigned his interest in the place to the Earl of Thomond. Murrough MacGucarrick claimed the castle in 1619. Doonmore was confiscated by the crown in 1688 and was sold in 1703.

The castle was still inhabited in 1808, but it was in ruins in 1837. A turret at the south-west corner fell around 1898, bringing most of the walls of the upper room with it. The rest of the castle was pulled down soon after, leaving only the lower portion, from the stone vault down, intact.

Tower Houses
Tower Houses are defended residences or small castles built by the better-off members of society in many parts of Ireland in late medieval times – the 15th and 17th centuries. They consist of tall, usually rectangular towers often of four or five storeys with either a spiral stairs or lengths of straight stairs within the walls giving access to the upper floors.

There was usually only one main room on each floor. Normally at least one of the floors consisted of a stone vault, while the others were of timber. In many examples the vault formed the floor of the main upper room of the tower house, which was the solar, the main reception room of the building, at the top of the stairs. The other floors contained more private rooms – bedrooms and living rooms for the family – while the ground floor, with only narrow defensive slits giving little light, was generally used for storage.

The roof was usually surrounded by a parapet with stepped crenelations behind which the occupants could defend the building against attackers.

Though sometimes tower houses survive in isolation, they would originally have been surroundedby other buildings, often within a defensive walled enclosure known as a bawn. Sometimes the bawn itself was defended with corner towers and a gatehouse

While earlier castles in Ireland dating from the late 12th to the 14th centuries were built mainly by the Anglo-Normans tower houses were built by both the Anglo-Normans and Gaelic families.


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Location:
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References:
https://kilkee.clareheritage.org/topi...
https://doonbeg.info/history-heritage/