Ross Castle

Ross Castle is a fifteenth-century tower house and keep built by the Irish chieftain O'Donoghue Mór, who established the fortress as the ancestral stronghold of Clan O'Donoghue on an inlet of Lough Leane. The castle's strategic position overlooking the lake made it a formidable defensive structure throughout the medieval and early modern periods. Ownership of the castle changed hands during the...