Donegal Castle

Donegal Castle is a citadel situated within the centre of Donegal Town in County Donegal in Ulster, Ireland. For maximum of the last centuries, the majority of the buildings lay in ruins however the citadel turned into almost completely restored within the early Nineties. The fort includes a fifteenth-century square preserve with a later Jacobean style wing. The complicated is sited on a bend in the River Eske, near the mouth of Donegal Bay, and is surrounded through a seventeenth-century boundary wall. There is a small gatehouse at its entrance mirroring the layout of the maintain.

Most of the stonework became produced from domestically sourced limestone with some sandstone. The fort changed into the stronghold of the O'Donnell clan, Lords of Tír Conaill and one of the most effective Gaelic households in Ireland from the fifth to the 16th centuries. Donegal, translates as Fort of the Foreigner likely coming from a Viking fort within the vicinity destroyed in 1159. However, because of loads of years of improvement, no archaeological evidence of this early fortress has been determined.