Enniscorthy Castle

Enniscorthy Castle is situated in Enniscorthy, County Wexford. The present day fortress was at the start built inside the sixteenth century. The first stone fort was constructed on web page inside the 1190s by means of Anglo Norman Knight; Philip De Prendergast and his wife Maud. Philip, Maud and their descendants resided on the Castle till the 1370s. Art MacMurrough Kavanagh attacked Enniscorthy Castle within the 1370s, in an try to regain his ancestral land. Art changed into a success and the MacMurrough Kavanagh dynasty then held the Castle until 1536, after they surrendered the Castle and surrounding lands to Lord Leonard Grey.

At this time Enniscorthy Castle is suggested be in a ruined situation. Enniscorthy Castle turned into burned down by using the Earl of Kildare in 1569. In 1581, Queen Elizabeth I surpassed the land to Edmund Spenser, although he in no way took up residence there. Later, all through the Elizabethan plantations the Castle turned into owned by means of Sir Henry Wallop, who extended and refurbished the fortress appreciably. The Castle become later occupied by Cromwellian forces in 1649, and used as a prison during the 1798 Rebellion.