Cloughoughter Castle

Clough Oughter Castle (in Irish Cloch Locha Uachtair, meaning 'stone castle of the Upper Lake') is located approximately half way between the towns of Cavan and Killeshandra in Co. Cavan.   Built in the 13th or early 14th century century by the O’Reilly family on a man-made island, or crannog in Irish, in Lough Oughter, one of the several beautiful lakes in the complex waterway system that is...