Donegal Castle

Donegal Castle is a fort located inside the centre of Donegal Town in County Donegal in Ulster, Ireland. For maximum of the last centuries, most of the people of the homes lay in ruins however the castle became almost absolutely restored within the early Nineteen Nineties. Donegal interprets as Fort of the Foreigner likely coming from a Viking fort within the place destroyed in 1159. However, because of loads of years of development, no archaeological proof of this early castle has been found. Red Hugh O’Donnell, rich chief of the O’Donnell extended family, constructed the fortress in 1474.

At the equal time, he and his wife Nuala constructed a Franciscan monastery in addition down the river. A neighborhood legend tells of a tunnel connecting the 2 however no proof for this has been found. The fort turned into appeared as one of the greatest Gaelic castles in Ireland. This becomes indicated through a report by the touring English Viceroy, the Lord Deputy of Ireland, Sir Henry Sidney, in 1566, in a letter to William Cecil created The 1st Baron Burghley in 1571.