Lambay Castle

Lambay Castle began as a small fortification in the late 15th or early 16th century. A licence was granted around 1467 to build a fort as protection against invasions by Spanish, French, and Scottish forces. Sir John Challoner, the first Secretary of State for Ireland, received the island during the English Reformation in the mid-1500s from George Browne, the Archbishop of Dublin, with the obli...