Athlone Castle

Athlone Castle was built as a Royal Castle in 1210 to control an important fording point over the River Shannon. The Anglo-Norman stone castle was built on lands originally granted in 1200 to Geoffrey de Constentin. In 1215, King John granted a mandate to ‘Godfrey [Geoffrey] de Constentin to safely keep the castle of Aslon [Athlone], as he previously kept it’. The present structure traces its f...