Ireland · Ruin
Dough Castle
Dough Castle is a medieval tower house site at Lahinch, County Clare, positioned at the mouth of the Inagh and Dealagh rivers. Originally established by the O'Conors in the early 14th century, the standing remains are later fabric; today only part of the O'Brien tower survives as a ruin on sandy ground near Lahinch Golf Course.
Its prime
1675
Today
Ruin
As it stood in 1675
What Dough Castle looked like in its prime.
At its prime the site formed a tall, rectangular battlemented stone tower with a large two-storey dwelling house attached to one side. Walls are roughly coursed local grey limestone with slab lintels and flat-arched window openings replacing earlier slits; a substantial chimney rises from the house. The complex sat directly on sandbanks at the mouth of the Inagh and Dealagh rivers, surrounded by low grassy dunes and estuarine reed marsh, with a continuous parapet and roofline along the tower and house.
Its story
The story of Dough Castle.
Dough Castle, in Irish Dumhach Uí Chonchúir, "sandbank of the O'Connors", was established in 1306 by the O'Connors, then lords of Corcomroe, at the strategically important mouth of the Inagh River, where it controlled both land and water traffic as their principal stronghold. Nothing of their original structures remains.
By 1584 the castle was held by the family of Sir Donal O'Brien, and it is part of the O'Brien tower that survives today, a ruin on sandy ground near Lahinch Golf Course. Tradition makes these sandbanks the home of Donn Dumhach, Donn of the sandhills, a sí prince said still to haunt the scene.
Step inside
7 places to explore in 1675.
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Clans who held Dough Castle.
The families that held Dough Castle for a decade or more across its history, follow a name to its clan.
