Kilcolgan Castle

Kilcolgan Castle was one of several fortifications held by the MacCoughlan clan, an Irish native family who ruled the Barony of Garrycastle in west Offaly. The castle was built or significantly developed by Terence Coghlan around the 1640s as a fortified residence incorporating a bawn with flanking towers equipped with gun loops for musket-based defence, typical of seventeenth-century Irish mil...