Category: Castles
Field reports, archive finds, and longer pieces on the castles, abbeys and stone monuments of the homeland. The O’Dubhda kingdom was famously ringed with castles — these stories trace what survives.

What AI Saw on a 1600 Map of O Dowdes Countrie
I took my kids haphazardly to Parke’s Castle one afternoon and photographed a hand-painted wall map without thinking.

Castle-Hunting with a 400-Year-Old Map: What Baxter c.1600 Tells Us About Lost O’Dubhda Strongholds
An Elizabethan spy-map in the Royal Museums Greenwich Dartmouth Collection draws a red-ink banner across the Sligo coast

How Many Castles Did the O’Dowds Actually Have? (More Than You Think — and We’re Still Counting)
The popular ’20 castles’ figure keeps growing as new field reports, old maps, and survey records turn up

Unearthing the O’Dowd Legacy: The Enduring Mystery of the “Twenty Castles”
The legend of an O’Dowd kingdom ‘ringed with twenty castles’ isn’t poetic flourish — it describes a real

Ardnaree Castle Rediscovered: The Foundation Stone of Ballina Reclaimed
Ballina’s founding fortress, long lost beneath centuries of soil, has been brought back into the historical record by
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