Bunratty Castle & Folk Park

Bunratty Castle is a large fifteenth-century tower house in County Clare, Ireland. It is positioned inside the centre of Bunratty village, by means of the N18 road between Limerick and Ennis, close to Shannon Town and its airport. The castle and the adjoining folk park are run by Shannon Heritage as traveller attractions. The name Bunratty, Bun Raite in Irish, approach "river basin" of the 'Ratty' river. This river, alongside the castle, flows into the nearby Shannon estuary. The first recorded agreement at the site may additionally were a Norsemen settlement/buying and selling camp mentioned inside the Annals of the Four Masters to were destroyed by way of Brian Boru in 977.

According to neighborhood way of life, such a camp became positioned on a upward thrust south-west of the present day citadel. However, given that no actual remains of this settlement have not begun been found, its precise region is unknown and its existence isn't always tested. Around 1250, King Henry III of England granted the cantred or district of Tradraighe to Robert De Muscegros, who in 1251 cut down around 2 hundred trees in the King's timber at Cratloe.