Qualla: Aughnanure Castle https://qualla.com/aughnanure-castle en-us © 2026 Bendyline Mon, 20 Jul 2026 10:21:19 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_res/siteimages/rsslogo.png Qualla: Aughnanure Castle https://qualla.com/aughnanure-castle Aughnanure Castle: Introduction https://qualla.com/aughnanure-castle/ The inscription over the gates of medieval Galway city once read: "From the fury of the O'Flahertys, good Lord deliver us." The family that inspired that prayer built Aughnanure Castle around 1490, a six-storey tower house near Oughterard in County Galway that commanded 250,000 acres of Iar Connacht and trade access to the Atlantic seaboard. Its Irish name, Caislean Achadh na nIubhar, translates to "Castle of the field of the yews" -- a reference to the vast yew forest that once stretched from the castle site halfway to Galway city. The forest is gone. The castle remains, the only intact medieval tower house in Connemara that is open to the public.

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]]> Sat, 14 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/3/r/aughnanure-castle-wp/gc3r-aughnanure-castle-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Aughnanure Castle: Lords of the Western Lands https://qualla.com/aughnanure-castle/ The O'Flahertys -- O Flaithbheartaigh in Irish -- were among Connacht's most formidable Gaelic lordly families. They controlled the castle site from around 1250, and by the time the tower house was built in 1490, their territory encompassed most of Iar Connacht, the vast region w...

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]]> Sat, 14 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/3/r/aughnanure-castle-wp/gc3r-aughnanure-castle-lords-of-the-western-lands.mp3 0:06 2 full Aughnanure Castle: Murrough of the Battleaxes https://qualla.com/aughnanure-castle/ The O'Flahertys' independence ended not through defeat in battle but through the oldest colonial strategy: divide and conquer. In 1572, Sir Edward Fitton, President of Connaught, captured Aughnanure and granted it to Murrough na dTuadh O Flaithbheartaigh -- Murrough of the Battle...

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]]> Sat, 14 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/3/r/aughnanure-castle-wp/gc3r-aughnanure-castle-murrough-of-the-battleaxes.mp3 0:06 3 full Aughnanure Castle: Siege, Mortgage, and Gift https://qualla.com/aughnanure-castle/ During the Cromwellian siege of Galway in 1652, Aughnanure served as a supply line for the besieged city, controlled by the Earl of Clanrickard. When Galway surrendered, the castle was abandoned. The O'Flahertys eventually bought it back, only to lose it again through foreclosure...

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]]> Sat, 14 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/3/r/aughnanure-castle-wp/gc3r-aughnanure-castle-siege-mortgage-and-gift.mp3 0:06 4 full Aughnanure Castle: Stone Against the Sky https://qualla.com/aughnanure-castle/ The castle stands near the shores of Lough Corrib, Ireland's second-largest lake, in a landscape that shifts between the boglands of Connemara to the west and the limestone country approaching Galway to the east. The tower's six storeys rise from the remains of the double bawn, i...

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