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About Dungarvan Castle
Dungarvan Castle is a sight (Castles) in Dungarvan, in the Dungarvan district. The address is Castle St, X35 DV58 Dungarvan. Up-to-date information is available on its own website, and you can reach it by phone at +3535848144. Just around the corner: The Moorings (restaurant, 67 m) and Carberry Lane Apartments (hotel, 180 m).
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- Sight › Castles
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- Address
- Castle St
X35 DV58 Dungarvan, Ireland - District
- Dungarvan
- Phone
- +3535848144
- Website
- www.heritageireland.ie
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- Coordinates
- 52.08928° N · -7.61623° E
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This is a polygonal 12th-century "shell keep" founded by Prince (later King) John in 1185. It replaced a motte-and-bailey and represents an early phase of Norman military architecture. When they replaced the previous timber palisade with masonry, they didn't trust the foundations to support the sort of massive curtain walls that later became the Norman style; so a high but lightweight shell of a wall was built with timber supports within. (England's Windsor Castle is of similar design.) There's also a corner tower and gate tower. In the 18th century a barracks was built within. This was burned down by the IRA in 1922 but rebuilt and acted as a police base until 1987; it now houses an exhibition on the castle history.
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