Blarney Castle
eBook - PDF

Blarney Castle

An Irish Tower House

  1. 175 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Blarney Castle

An Irish Tower House

About this book

Blarney Castle, the medieval home of the MacCarthy lords of Muskerry, is one of Ireland's best-known castles. Many visitors to Ireland include a trip to the castle in their itinerary, often lining up to kiss the Blarney Stone in hope of acquiring the 'gift of the gab.' Yet despite the castle's ubiquitous image on postcards and tourist promotional literature, there is little acknowledgment of the building's historical and archaeological significance as a native lordly residence. This book brings the castle's architecture to the fore, placing it in the context of an expansive native lordship in late medieval Munster, and showing how changes in the layout and appearance of the building can be attributed to the castle's occupants, who continued to redefine their social standing and cultural identity through the Tudor reconquest and beyond.

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Information

Year
2023
eBook ISBN
9781846824807
Edition
0
Topic
History
Index
History

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title page
  3. Copyright page
  4. Table of contents
  5. Preface and acknowledgments
  6. Foreword
  7. Timeline: twelfth to nineteenth century
  8. 1. The MacCarthys, lords of Muskerry: their historical pedigree
  9. 2. Irish tower houses in context
  10. 3. The layout and use of Blarney Castle
  11. 4. The ‘transition’ from castle to countryhouse at Blarney
  12. 5. The chronology of Blarney Castle’s development
  13. Walking guide
  14. Notes
  15. Bibliography
  16. Glossary
  17. Index