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Lost in the mists of time ...<\/h2><\/div>
Killahara Castle, set among the hills of Tipperary, is a recently restored tower house, offering\u00a0the best in Celtic\u00a0castle design\u00a0and tranquility within its ancient walls.<\/div>
<\/span><\/div><\/div>[vc_column_text]It has a large fully equipped kitchen, a lounge with a huge fireplace and seven bedrooms (five double and two single) plus two additional camp beds for overflow.<\/p>\n

Killahara Castle has three bathrooms, tucked away within the old garderobes, provide showers in a unique setting. In addition, the penthouse suite with views across all of Tipperary through its glass end gables, contains a claw footed bath.<\/p>\n

The castle, until April 2008, stood as a shell.<\/em><\/h4>\n

It had\u00a0had no roof, probably since the mid\u00a0sixteen hundreds when Cromwellian forces ‘slighted’ the building.<\/p>\n

It had no\u00a0floors or windows – absent since 1921, when the\u00a0building was burnt out by the ‘Black\u00a0&\u00a0Tans’. Only one burnt wall plate remained.<\/p>\n

The lower level window openings were wider than originally, courtesy of the 1853 restoration attempt. The surrounds of some of the widened\u00a0opes were crumbling owing to the fact that, as that (1853) restoration had run out of steam, some\u00a0openings had been hastily patched up with poorly supported brickwork rather than with stone\u00a0mullions, transoms,\u00a0and lintels.<\/p>\n

At the top, the\u00a0parapet crenellation and machicolation was absent.\u00a0Like the roof, these were proabably missing from the early years of the castle. (The\u00a0Cromwellian ‘slighting’ process, logically,\u00a0included toppling defensive features of\u00a0castles.)<\/p>\n

All around the wall walk was a very old and most unusual concrete barge. It\u00a0had been\u00a0created as part of\u00a0the 1904 restoration. Trees and ivy were growing on top of the barrel vault and were encroaching on the stonework at the top. The inner parts were continually saturated. The damp and lichen had caused many patches of the lime render to crumble. Birds nested throughout.<\/p>\n

However, standing on a rock with all of its quoins still in place, the overall structure of this building was exceptionally well preserved. Furthermore, the barge on top had helped stem the decay of the decapitated walls from the top.<\/p>\n

The ancient spiral stairs on Killahara Castle, unchanged for hundreds of years, and trodden by the likes of Black Jack Fogarty, take you up through the five floors of Killahara Castle. Killahara Castle, a place of legend and beauty, provides an ideal getaway for family reunions, birthday celebrations with a difference, weekend retreats, hill walkers or honeymooners who want to shut the world out for a few days. Come to Killahara and experience an Ireland lost in the mists of time.[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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