Trim Castle
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Trim Castle is a castle on the south bank of the River Boyne in Trim, County Meath, Ireland, with an area of 30,000 m2. Over a period of 30 years, it was built by Hugh de Lacy and his son Walter as th
The keep and curtain walls of Trim Castle
Trim Castle at night.
The inside of one of the towers of Trim Castle.
The Dublin Gate barbican tower at the southern curtain wall (left) and the main tower (right)
Keep
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A keep is a type of fortified tower built within castles during the Middle Ages by European nobility. Scholars have debated the scope of the word keep, but usually consider it to refer to large towers
Trim Castle
…to the public in 2000. With an area of 30,000 m2, Trim Castle is the largest Cambro-Norman castle in Ireland. The design of the central three-storey keep (also known as a donjon or great tower) is unique for a Norman keep being of cruciform shape, with twenty corners. It was built on the site of the…
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Reconstructed keep at Saint-Sylvain-d'Anjou in Maine-et-Loire
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