Qualla: Dunboy Castle https://qualla.com/dunboy-castle en-us © 2026 Bendyline Wed, 08 Jul 2026 02:40:11 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/0/v/dunboy-castle-wp/hero-small.webp Qualla: Dunboy Castle https://qualla.com/dunboy-castle Dunboy Castle: Introduction https://qualla.com/dunboy-castle/ Photo credit Chris Andrews, CC BY-SA 2.0. The walls of Dunboy do not so much stand as refuse to fall over. Sea wind has been working on them for four centuries since they were last cared about by anyone with a hammer, and the masonry that the English guns broke in 1602 has weathered into something between a building and a tideline. From the rough headland above Berehaven you can still trace the rectangle of the bawn, the footings of the tower house, and the gap where the cannonball found the stairwell.

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]]> Sat, 23 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/0/v/dunboy-castle-wp/gc0v-dunboy-castle-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Dunboy Castle: Built for the Harbour https://qualla.com/dunboy-castle/ Photo credit K. Jähne, CC BY-SA 3.0. The castle went up in the fifteenth century because whoever held this stone held the harbour, and whoever held the harbour controlled who came and went from southwest Munster. The O'Sullivan Bere clan built it as a tower house with a defensive courtyard - a bawn - around the base...

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]]> Sat, 23 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/0/v/dunboy-castle-wp/gc0v-dunboy-castle-built-for-the-harbour.mp3 0:06 2 full Dunboy Castle: The Last Stand https://qualla.com/dunboy-castle/ Photo credit Unknown author, Public domain. In June 1602, Dunboy became the scene of one of the most desperate engagements of the Nine Years' War. Donal Cam O'Sullivan Beare had rebelled against Elizabeth I in alliance with the other Gaelic lords and with Spanish backing. After the alliance collapsed at Kinsale, he refused...

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]]> Sat, 23 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/0/v/dunboy-castle-wp/gc0v-dunboy-castle-the-last-stand.mp3 0:06 3 full Dunboy Castle: What the English Left https://qualla.com/dunboy-castle/ Photo credit Nomasoft, CC BY-SA 4.0. After the siege, the English had no use for a Gaelic stronghold that had given them so much trouble, and the ruins were left where they lay. In the middle of the seventeenth century a small bastion fort - one of the angular, gunpowder-era designs replacing medieval walls all over...

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]]> Sat, 23 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/0/v/dunboy-castle-wp/gc0v-dunboy-castle-what-the-english-left.mp3 0:06 4 full Dunboy Castle: The Plaque and the Grass https://qualla.com/dunboy-castle/ Photo credit CC BY-SA 3.0. What remains of the original Dunboy is a low irregular outline of dressed stone laced through with wild grass and sea pinks. A plaque set into the standing wall reads, in Irish and English, in memory of the heroes who fell at Dunboy in June 1602 for country and faith - may their ...

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