The only castle in Ireland with its original roof

Dunsoglhy Castle is located on private land near the end of Dublin Airport’s runway. It was built by Sir Thomas Plunkett whose family was one of the few Catholic peers of Ireland. The family lived here right up to the 1870s and held the titles ‘Barons of Kileen’ and the ‘Earls of Fingal’. This is one of the few c.15th fortified tower houses to survive totally intact and its wooden roof is the only original one left in Ireland. Its construction techniques have been used and copied for other historical projects around the country including Rothe House, Kilkenny Castle, and Bunratty Castle. Beside the castle is a small chapel with interesting stone carvings representing the ‘Instruments of the Passion’ and the carved date 1573.