Doe Castle

Doe Castle was the historic stronghold of Clan t Suibhne with architectural parallels to the Scottish tower house. Built inside the early 15th century, it's miles one of the better fortalices in the north-west of Ireland. The citadel sits on a small peninsula, surrounded on 3 facets by way of water, with a moat cut into the rock of the landward facet. The structure is composed in particular of high outer walls round an interior bawn with a four-storey tower-house keep.

Doe Castle turned into most probably constructed inside the 15th century by the O'Donnell own family, however via the 1440s it had come into the fingers of the gallowglass Mac Sweeney own family. The fortress remained in the palms of the Mac Sweeney circle of relatives for nearly two hundred years till it fell into the fingers of English settlers in the after math of the Plantation of Ulster in the early 17th century. It changed into there that Owen Roe O'Neill returned in 1642 to steer the Ulster Army of the Irish Confederate forces at some stage in the Wars of the Three Kingdoms.