The castle
First castle at the site destroyed in 1209 and rebuilt by the Normans in 1213; extended into its current neo-Gothic form in 1811 by the Pain Brothers, burned by Republican forces in 1922 and rebuilt in 1928.
Why stay here
A 13th-century-founded castle at the foot of the Slieve Bloom Mountains, now a 37-room hotel run by the same group as Kilronan Castle.
