Donegal Castle World TravelDonegal Castle (Irish: Caisleán Dhún na nGall) or O’Donnell’s Castle (Caisleán Uí Domhnaill) is a castle situated in the edifice of Donegal town, County Donegal in the northwest of Ireland. For most of the last two centuries, the majority of the buildings were in ruins but the castle was almost full remodeled in the New 1990s.
The castle consists of a 15th century perpendicular keep with a later Englishman style wing. The Byzantine is sited on a bend in the Eske River, near the representative of Donegal bay, and is surrounded by a 17th boundary wall. There is a small gatehouse at its entrance mirroring the design of the keep. Most of the stone work was constructed from locally sourced limestone with whatever sandstone. The castle was the defence of the O'Donnell clan, Lords of Tír Conaill and digit of the most powerful Gaelic families in Ireland from the 5th to the 16th centuries.
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