Kilduff Castle

The name Kilduff derives from the Irish An Chill Dubh, meaning 'the black church,' from cill (church) and dubh (black)—a reference to the ecclesiastical settlement that once stood here before the castle's construction. Kilduff Castle itself was built around 1550 by the MacBrien family, descendants of the High Kings of Ireland, as a tower house in the Coonagh barony within Grean civil parish. Th...