House: Bunowen Castle
Estate(s): |
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Property/House name: | Bunowen Castle |
Description: | Originally the site of an O'Flaherty castle and occupied by the Geoghegans. Their descendant John Augustus O'Neill built a new castle residence at the foot of the Hill of Doon which he was unable to complete. Bought by the Blakes of Towerhill in 1852 and used as a summer residence. It is now a ruin. |
Townland: |
Bunowenmore |
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Civil Parish: |
Ballindoon
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Poor Law Union: |
Clifden
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DED: |
Bunowen 21
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Barony: |
Ballynahinch
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County: | Galway |
OS Sheet Number: | 49 |
OSI Grid Reference: |
L597 426 |
Latitude / Longitude: |
53.41486 -10.11037
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Bunowen Castle (www.geograph.ie)
Bunowen (Photograph courtesy of Dr. Patrick Melvin & Eamonn de Burca)