Ireland · Partial ruin
McDermott's Castle
McDermott's Castle stands on Castle Island in the south-east corner of Lough Key, County Roscommon. The site includes a medieval enclosure wall and a late-medieval tower house that received early nineteenth-century remodelling by architect John Nash and functioned as a summer house before parts later burned.
Its prime
1832
Today
Partial ruin
As it stood in 1832
The shape it held in its prime.
Perched on a 0.23-hectare island in Lough Key, the composition at its prime (1832) comprised a rectangular late-medieval stone tower rising within a continuous stone enclosure wall that follows the island shore. The tower had narrow medieval window openings and arrow-slit on its western wall, with large windows inserted and a crenellated parapet added during the early nineteenth-century remodelling. Low nineteenth-century wings flanked the tower and a service kitchen occupied the eastern side; the island was approached by boat.
Step inside
8 places to explore in 1832.
The record describes 8 distinct spots at McDermott's Castle — including 3 interiors: stacked main rooms (two principal rooms, one above the other), view from the principal northern window, kitchen in the eastern nash addition. Create your own photoreal reconstruction and walk through every one — more scenes means more photos, more angles and more rooms of the immersive experience.
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See McDermott's Castle with the fires lit.
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