Conna Castle

Conna Castle is a five-storey tower house situated on a limestone bluff above the River Bride near Conna, County Cork. Built between 1560 and 1561 by Thomas Ruadh fitz James FitzGerald, the illegitimate son of the 13th Earl of Desmond, the castle exemplifies mid-sixteenth-century Irish defensive architecture and family power in Munster. The FitzGerald family held significant lands in the region...