The castle at Fishpond Cross at the foothills of the Sliabh Aughty mountains, near Kilchreest, is much like a lot of stone towers to be found around the country. I think it was one a number of castles built by the Burke family, and I don't know much about its original history.
The castle does have one piece of relatively recent history; it was used as the setting for the 1968 film, Alfred the Great, which starred those two stalwarts of Sixties cinema in the UK, David Hemmings and Michael York.
These photos were taken on Monday May 3, 2004.
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