Ross Castle

Ross Castle is a fifteenth-century tower residence and hold on the threshold of Lough Leane, in Killarney National Park, County Kerry, Ireland. It is the ancestral home of the O'Donoghue extended family, later associated with the Brownes of Killarney. The citadel is operated by means of the Office of Public Works, and is open to the general public seasonally with guided excursions. Ross Castle became built inside the past due 15th century by way of nearby ruling extended family the O'Donoghues Mor, although possession changed fingers at some stage in the Second Desmond Rebellion of the 1580s to the MacCarthy Mor.

He then leased the castle and the lands to Sir Valentine Browne, ancestor of the Earls of Kenmare. The citadel changed into among the remaining to surrender to Oliver Cromwell's Roundheads in the course of the Irish Confederate Wars, and was simplest taken whilst artillery was brought by means of boat via the River Laune. Lord Muskerry held the fort in opposition to Edmund Ludlow who marched to Ross with 4,000 foot infantrymen and 2 hundred horse; however, it turned into by means of water that he attacked the stronghold. The Irish had a prophecy that Ross ought to in no way be taken till a warship ought to swim on the lake, an improbable prospect.