Dunguaire Castle BW - Ireland
by Lexa Harpell
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Dunguaire Castle BW - Ireland
Artist
Lexa Harpell
Medium
Photograph - Photographs
Description
Magical Ireland Series by Lexa Harpell.
Dunguaire Castle sits on the shore of Galway Bay in County Galway.
Built in the 16th century as a Tower House - which is now restored and open for tourists in the summer months.
**The 19th century Gaelic scholar John O'Donovan states in his Ordnance Survey letters for County Galway and his book The Genealogies, Tribes and Customs of the Hy-Fiachrach that Dunguaire was built by the Ó hEidhin clan, chiefs of Coill Ua bhFiachrach, the district around Kinvara, and also of Uí Fiachrach Aidhne an area coextensive with the diocese of Kilmacduagh covering the part of county County Galway between the Burren and Galway Bay to the west and Slieve Aughty to the east.
Dunguaire Castle was used in the 1969 Walt Disney movie Guns in the Heather, featuring Kurt Russell, in which the castle was featured as Boyne Castle. It was also the Scottish castle home of the main character in the 1979 film North Sea Hijack.** Wikipedia
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September 4th, 2017
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