Published by Tom McNeill and David Sweetman.1 It is, however, an incomplete canon. Its great tower or donjon offers the modern visitor a more intimate communion with the rituals of thirteenth-century lordship than many better-known castles of the period.Īc centuries in Ireland was established just over a decade ago in the syntheses canon of architecturally important castles of the late twelfth and thirteenth Relative to its demonstrable importance, historical and archaeological, no Anglo-Norman castle in Ireland has slipped as far below the radar of scholarly attention as Coonagh. Matilda de Marisco, the former subsequently achieving notoriety as a pirate operating CentralĬharacters in that dispute were its builders, the husband-and-wife team of William and 1225, was the centrepiece of a strategically-located estate, the ownership of which was disputed in the middle decades of the thirteenth century. Limerick Tadhg O'Keeffe Coonagh Castle, built c. Ireland: the donjon of Coonagh Castle, Co. This content downloaded from 154.59.124.94 on Tue, 21:12:22 UTC All use subject to Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland is collaborating with JSTOR to digitize, preserve and extend access to The Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland
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