The Black Castle on the River Barrow in Leighlinbridge
Location
Leighlinbridge, County Carlow, Ireland
Built
12th century
Rebuilt
1547
Architect
Edward Bellingham (1547)
Architectural style(s)
Norman (1st structure), Gothic (2nd structure)
National monument of Ireland
Official name
Leighlinbridge Castle
Reference no.
438[1]
Leighlinbridge Castle, also called Black Castle, is in the village of Leighlinbridge, County Carlow, Ireland, on the River Barrow.
The early castle was built c.1181 for the Normans. In the 1540s a Carmelite friary was converted into a new fort by Edward Bellingham. The remains of the castle are now dilapidated - a 50-foot-tall (15 m) broken castle tower and parts of one side of an enclosing wall are still extant.
^"National Monuments of County Carlow in State Care" (PDF). heritageireland.ie. National Monument Service. p. 1. Retrieved 12 July 2020.
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