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Leighlinbridge Castle
🇮🇪 Ireland · 12th century
Leighlinbridge Castle, also called Black Castle, is in the village of Leighlinbridge, County Carlow, Ireland, on the River Barrow.
The early castle was built c.1181 for the Normans. In the 1540s a Carmelite friary was converted into a new fort by Edward Bellingham. The remains of the castle are now dilapidated - a 50-foot-tall (15 m) broken castle tower and parts of one side of an enclosing wall are still extant.
Text adapted from “Leighlinbridge Castle” on Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Leighlinbridge Castle ranks #3,728 of 5,793 worldwide in the atlas's castle fame ranking, and #93 of the 107 mapped in Ireland. Founded c. 1181, it is older than 84% of the atlas's dated landmarks — one of 303 atlas entries founded in the 12th century. See how Ireland compares in the castle statistics.
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