Glinsk Castle

	This Castle was the principal residence of Mac David Burke, loard of Clonconway. It was built in the mid 17th century on the site of an earlier Castle. The landed gentry of Ireland at that time were starting to build houses instead of Castles. Really a Tower House, it is an important example of this transformation from castle to house, The plan is unique in Ireland, it was one of the last- if not the last Castles to be built in Ireland.
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The Castle has some fine architectural features, the most outstanding of which are the two fine chimney shafts, each being a battery of five diagonal stacks which give the Castle a great sense of elegance, The finely sculpted mullioned windows are very well preserved. The plan is a rectangle with tow square towers projecting from the south. It was once surrounded by a bawn wall with turrets but little of this now remains.

There was a link between the "Sister" castles of Glinsk and Donamon. Tradition has it that Nuala Ni Finaghty, who was know as "Nuala na Miodoige", (Nuala of the dagger) murdered here husband and married Sir David De Burgo and that through this unholy alliance, David and his descendants become lords of Clonconway. Extract taken from the HISTORY of GLINSK by Martin Ward For further information concerning Glinsk Castle see History of Glinsk