Huntington Castle (Irland)
Huntington Castle, also known as Clonegal Castle is a castle in Clonegal, County Carlow.
The structure was originally a plantation castle,[1], used for defensive purposes during the plantation of the area in the early 17th Century. The original tower house, which served as a garrison, was built in 1625 for Laurence Esmonde, later Baron Esmonde.[2] Due to the strategic importance of the village of Clonegal during the Cromwellian conquest of Ireland because of its location on the road betweeen Dublin and Wexford, the castle was captured by Oliver Cromwell as he marched on Kilkenny[2] in 1650.
It is now a private house open to the public for guided tours throughout June, July, August and September. It was the setting for Stanley Kubrick's film Barry Lyndon. Its basement has been the base of a religion, the Fellowship of Isis, since 1976.[3] The castle hosted the Solas festival in August 2008.[4]
References
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- ↑ Jeremy Williams: A Companion Guide To Architecture in Ireland 1837 - 1921. Irish Academic Press, 1994, ISBN 0-7165-2513-5, S. 39.
- ↑ a b Marianne Heron: The Hidden Houses of Ireland. Gill & Macmillan Ltd., 1999, ISBN 0-7171-2730-3, S. 28–30.
- ↑ Suzanne Rowan Kelleher: Frommer's Ireland 2004. 14. Auflage. John Wiley and Sons, 2004, ISBN 0764542168, 9780764542169(?!), S. 177.
- ↑ Pamela Newenham: Bad weather, mess and muck 'but the vibe was great' In: Irish Times, 18 August 2008. Abgerufen am 12. Juni 2009