Castle
O’Doherty’s Keep
Castle
O'Doherty's Keep, also previously known as Buncrana Castle, was one of the chief residences of the Ó Dochartaigh (O'Doherty) clan of Inishowen. The Ó Dochartaigh dynasty ruled Inishowen, a large peninsula on the northern coastline of Ulster, from the early fourteenth century up until 1608. The O’Doherty clan had replaced the Mac Lochlainn (McLaughlin) dynasty as the Gaelic rulers of Inishowen.
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