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Ballymote Castle

🇮🇪 Irlanda · siglo XIII

Ballymote Castle en Irlanda
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Ballymote Castle (Irish: Caisleán Bhaile an Mhóta) is a large rectangular keepless castle, built around 1300. It is located in the townland of Carrownanty on the outskirts of Ballymote in southern County Sligo, Ireland. This area was known historically as Átha Cliath an Chorainn, which roughly translates as The Ford of the Hurdles of Corann. It is the last of the Norman castles in Connacht. It was probably built in order to protect the newly won possessions of Richard Óg de Burgh, 2nd Earl of Ulster (also known as the Red Earl), in County Sligo, some distance from an earlier motte.

Texto adaptado de «Ballymote Castle» en la Wikipedia en inglés, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Ballymote Castle ranks #3473 of 5793 worldwide in the atlas's castle fame ranking, and #85 of the 107 mapped in Irlanda. Fundado en 1300, más antiguo que el 66% de los monumentos datados del atlas — uno de los 519 monumentos del atlas fundados en el siglo XIII. Compara el dato en las estadísticas de castillos.

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