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Northburgh Castle, also known as Green Castle or Greencastle Castle, is a ruined late 13th/early 14th-century castle in Greencastle, a village and fishing port in the north of Inishowen, County Donega
Northburgh Castle
Northburgh Castle
Greencastle Castle
William de Burgh, 3rd Earl of Ulster and 4th Baron of Connaught was an Irish noble who was Lieutenant of Ireland and whose murder, aged 20, led to the Burke Civil War.
Northburgh Castle
…in 1318, after which it was recaptured by Richard. Walter Liath de Burgh was imprisoned in the castle in 1331 by his cousin (and Richard's Grandson) William Donn de Burgh, 3rd Earl of Ulster (the 'Brown Earl'), and died of starvation in February 1332. Anecdotally, that act is commemorated in the Derry City coat of arms as a skeleton. William's…
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