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Doe Castle, Creeslough, County Donegal

Recorded August 2019 Doe Castle, a stronghold of the MacSweeney Clan for almost 200 years, sits on the waterline of Sheephaven Bay on The Wild Atlantic Way off the R245 between Carrigart and Creeslough, Co. Donegal. The Mac Sweeneys, who originally came from Scotland as Gallowglasses or Gallóglaigh mercenaries, became known as Clan tSuibhne na dTuath or Sweeneys of the Territory. The castle became Caislean na dTuath, anglicised as Doe Castle. There were at least thirteen Mac Sweeney chiefs. The castle tower is believed to have been built in the 1420s; the bawn walls and two storey hall beside the tower in the 1620s. Survivors of the 1588 Spanish Armada fleet were sheltered at Doe by MacSweeney chief Eoghan Og II - a man described as influential and generous with the gift of good counsel in both war and peace. The young Red Hugh O’Donnell was fostered by Eoghan Og II at Doe. The last chief of Doe, Maolmhuire an Bhata Bhui, who was knighted by Elizabeth I, marched with Red Hugh to The Battle of Kinsale in 1601. Forty years later a large party of veteran Irish soldiers from France landed at Doe to lead the Gaelic uprising of the 1640s. In the 1790s, the castle came into the possession of Retired General, George Vaughan Hart, who raised the bawn walls and built the new entrance beside the tower where his initials can still be seen. Doe was later purchased by a neighbouring landlord, Stewart of Ards, and was occupied until the 1890s. It came under government control in the 1930s. The deeply carved and highly ornamented Mac Sweeney grave-slab from the nearby Ballymacsweeney graveyard, now inside the tower house, dates from 1544. Information panels, on the surrounding bawn walls, and inside the ground floor of the castle, chronicle its history in much more detail. Irish singer Brian McFadden (Westlife) proposed to his (now ex-) wife, Kerry Katona, at the castle in 2001, it being the spot where his grandfather also had proposed to his grandmother. The Castle grounds are open daily and guided tours of the towerhouse are available during the Summer months. Please consider subscribing, it's free and helps the channel grow ! https://bit.ly/3epQYZ0 Instagram:   / johnnybaretoes