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Killeen Castle, Dunsany

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Killeen Castle, Dunsany in Ireland
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Killeen Castle (Irish: Caisleán an Chillín), located in Dunsany, County Meath, Ireland, is the current construction on a site occupied by a castle since around 1180. The current building is a restoration of a largely 19th-century structure, burnt out in 1981.

Killeen was built as one of a pair of castles either side of a major roadway north, the other being the extant Dunsany Castle. Its estate was occupied continuously by the Cusack, and then after a marriage, Plunkett, families, from 1172 to 1951.

Text adapted from “Killeen Castle, Dunsany” on Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Killeen Castle, Dunsany ranks #2,260 of 5,479 worldwide in the atlas's castle fame ranking, and #53 of the 81 mapped in Ireland. See how Ireland compares in the castle statistics.

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