Carrigafoyle Castle

Carrigafoyle Castle is a late 15th century tower-house built on Carrig Island, a small rocky outcrop at the mouth of the Shannon Estuary, just a short distance from Ballylongford, Co. Kerry. The place name, Carrigafoyle, comes from the Irish “Carrig an Phoill” meaning the rock of the hole. Carrigafoyle Castle was probably built in the 1490s by Connor Liath O’Connor. The site was referred to in ...