Castle Hackett
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Caisleán an Haicéadaigh | |
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| Location | County Galway, Ireland |
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| Part of | Ancient Gaelic Kingdom of Maigh Seola |
| Height | 168 metres (551 ft) (Castlehacket hill (Knockma)) |
| History | |
| Abandoned | 18th century |
Castle Hackett is a 13th-century tower house at the base of Knockma hill, 10 kilometres (6 mi) south-west of Tuam, County Galway, Ireland.
History
The tower house was built by the
burned in 1923 during the Civil War
but rebuilt and still stands today.
In the introduction to his Fairy and Folk Tales of the Irish Peasantry (1888),
William Butler Yeats mentions the family and Castlehacket, writing, "Each county has usually some family, or personage, supposed to have been favoured or plagued [with fairy-seeing abilities], especially by the phantoms, as the Hackets of Castle Hacket, Galway, who had for their ancestor a fairy…"[1]
See also
- Tower houses in Britain and Ireland
- Norman Ireland
- Castlehackett National School
References
- ISBN 0-02-055640-3.
Bibliography
- O'Flaherty, Roderic (1846). A Chorographical Description of West Or H-Iar Connaught, Written A.D. 1684, p. 148, at Google Books.
- Spellissy, Sean (1999). The History of Galway.
- Salter, Mike (2004) "The Castles of Connacht")
- Lynch, Ronan (2006). The Kirwans of Castlehackett.
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