Castle Donovan

Castle Donovan or Castledonovan or O Donovan's Castle talk to the stays of an Irish tower house or turtheach, in a valley close to Drimoleague, of medium length which become the so called seat of the Clann Cathail sept of the O Donovans for a length all through the sixteenth century. The original name of the castle, and when the O Donovans had been truely residing in it, turned into Sowagh before the 17th century. The call of Castle Donovan, after the Manor of the Castle of O'Donovan, is related to a regrant from James II of England in 1615.

Approximately 60 toes in peak, it sits on a huge rock or outcropping, which paperwork the floor ground, close to the financial institution of the River Ilen. It is usually believed to had been constructed, or at the least augmented, by means of Donal of the Hides, Lord of Clancahill from about 1560 to his death 1584. His son Donal II O'Donovan then repaired or similarly altered the shape some many years later however turned into no longer dwelling in it through then. It is believed that his father had already relocated the circle of relatives in the first decade of that century to the more worthwhile Rahine Manor on the seacoast to defend their maritime pursuits.