Doe Castle - County Donegal Ireland

Описание: Situated on the waters of the Atlantic, Doe Castle (Caisleán na dTuath) is located on an inlet of Sheephaven Bay in County Donegal. The castle consists of high outer walls surrounding an interior bawn with a four-storey tower-house keep. The name Doe comes from tuath, which is the Irish word for territory. Doe Castle was built in the early 15th Century by either the O’Donnells of Donegal or the McSweeneys who were gallowglasses (professional fighters) that came from Scotland to fight for the O’Donnells.

Doe castle remained in the hands of the McSweeneys (also spelled MacSweeney) for nearly 200 years and was ruled by 13 McSweeney chiefs. In 1588, Doe Castle was used by McSweeney chief Eoghan Og II to provide shelter for survivors of the Spanish Armanda. In 1601 Maolmhuire an Bhata Bhui, the last McSweeney chief of Doe Castle, joined Red Hugh O’Donnell, lord of Tyrconnell, and marched out to the Battle of Kinsale.

In the struggle for control of Ireland between the Irish and the English, Doe Castle changed hands many times. Following the McSweeneys, Doe Castle fell into the hands of English settlers in the aftermath of the Plantation of Ulster in the early 17th century. In 1642 Owen Roe O’Neill sailed to Doe Castle from France to lead the Ulster Army of the Irish Confederate forces during the Wars of the Three Kingdoms. In 1650, the governor of Londonderry, Sir Charles Coote, took possession of the castle. Following this, Doe Castle was bought by Sir George Vaughan Hart and was inhabited by his family until 1843.


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