Quin, Co. Clare, Ireland - Craggaunowen Project - John Hinde postcard c.1970s

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• Picture / Image:  Craggaunowen Project, Quin, Co. Clare, Ireland
• Publisher: John Hinde / 2/133 / photo P. O'Toole
• Postally used: no
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• Notes / condition:  NB - has some brown markings on the back and one spot on front. 

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Craggaunowen is a 16th-century castle and an archaeological open-air museum in County Clare, Ireland.

Craggaunowen is located 10 km east of Quin, County Clare. The name Craggaunowen derives from its Irish name Creagán Eoghain (Owen's little rocky hill).^[1] The site is operated by Shannon Heritage.^[2]

Craggaunowen Castle was built around 1550 by John MacSioda MacNamara, a descendent of Sioda MacNamara, who built Knappogue Castle in 1467.^[3]

It was left in ruins in the 17th century, ^[3] and rendered uninhabitable by the removal of the roof and staircase, and indefensible by removal of the battlements, at the time of the Cromwellian confiscations around 1653.^{[citation needed]}

The Tower House remained a ruin until it and the estate of Cullane House across the road, were inherited in 1821 by "Honest" Tom Steele, a confederate of Daniel O’Connell, "The Liberator".^[4]

Steele had the castle rebuilt as a summer house in the 1820s and he used it, and the turret on the hill opposite, as places of recreation. His initials can be seen on one of the quoin-stones to the right outside.^{[citation needed]}Following his death in 1848 the lands were divided, Cullane going to one branch of his family, Craggaunowen to his niece Maria Studdert.^[5] Eventually, having passed through the hands of his descendants, the castle and grounds were acquired by the "Irish Land Commission".^{[citation needed]} Much of the poor quality land was given over to forestry and the castle itself was allowed to fall into disrepair.^{[citation needed]}

By the time of the First Ordnance Survey in the 1840s, the castle was "in ruins" again. In the mid-19th century, the castle, herd's house and 96 acres were reported in the possession of a Reverend William Ashworth, who held them from a Caswell (a family from County Clare just north of Limerick). In 1906, a mansion house here was owned by Count James Considine (from a family based at Derk, County Limerick).^[6]

Craggaunowen Castle was restored by John Hunt in the 1960s. Hunt added an extension to the ground floor, which for a while housed part of his collection of antiquities. The collection now resides in the Hunt Museum in the city of Limerick.^[3]