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Moygara Castle, County Sligo, and the O’Garas of Coolavin

Moygara Castle, County Sligo, and the O’Garas of Coolavin

Moygara Castle, with its four towers, gatehouse and high curtain walls, is one of the most impressive masonry-built monuments in north Connacht. Constructed in the late fourteenth/early fifteenth century by the O’Garas, the castle functioned as a centre of their lordship of Coolavin. This study of Moygara Castle marshals various fields of expertise – history, archaeology, architecture, geography, genealogy, geophysical survey and DNA analysis – to provide much-needed information about life in later-medieval Gaelic Ireland.

Kieran O'Conor

  • Four Courts Press Ltd
  • 9781846827976
  • 224 pages
  • €45.00
  • Hardback
  • Ireland
  • Medieval European archaeology