Castles of Ireland: Some Fortress Histories and Legends

CASTLES OF IRELAND

ADARE CASTLE.

Some Fortress Histories and Legends BY C. L. ADAMS ILLUSTRATED BY REV. CANON LUCIUS O’BRIEN
LONDON ELLIOT STOCK, 62, PATERNOSTER ROW, E.C. 1904


The Castles of Ireland are far too numerous for any single volume to contain their separate histories, and all that I claim for the present work is that it includes epitomised accounts of those of chief interest, as well as some regarding which I had special facilities for collecting information. It is, I also believe, the first collection of such records, and therefore I hope but the forerunner of similar works which may be issued in the future, so that the time will yet come when all these interesting relics of a troubled and stormy past may be classified and chronicled, and the present obscurity in which the history of so many of them is shrouded be entirely cleared away.
The number of ruined castles in Ireland is always a matter of surprise to visitors from the Sister Isle, and perhaps they help us, of less stirring days, to realise more fully the continual state of warfare in which our ancestors must have lived than printed records can ever do.