Castle
Rock of Dunamase
🇮🇪 Ireland
Dunamase or the Rock of Dunamase (Irish: Dún Másc "fort of Másc") is a rocky outcrop in County Laois, Ireland. Rising 46 metres (151 ft) above a plain, it has the ruins of Dunamase Castle, a defensive stronghold dating from the early Hiberno-Norman period with a view across to the Slieve Bloom Mountains. It is near the N80 road between the towns of Portlaoise and Stradbally.
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Rock of Dunamase ranks #2,128 of 5,479 worldwide in the atlas's castle fame ranking, and #46 of the 81 mapped in Ireland. See how Ireland compares in the castle statistics.
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