Location: Creeslough Map
Constructed: 16th century
Doe Castle is situated in a town of Creeslough in Donegal County
in Ireland. It was constructed in the 16th century. Here Eoghan
Rua Ó Néill returned in 1642 to lead the Ulster Army of
Irish-Confederate forces in the wars of the Three Kingdoms.
In the 17th century, the castle changed hands several times in
the struggle of the Irish and English for supremacy in Ireland.
It is known that Sir Charles Coote, 1st Earl of Mountrath, the
governor of Londonderry, took possession of the castle in 1650.
Later, Sir George Vaughan Hart bought the castle and lived there
with his family until 1843.
The castle is located on a small peninsula. It is surrounded on
three sides by water and has on the land side a dug in the rock
ditch. The complex consists of mostly high outer walls around an
inner enclosure, in which a four-story tower house stands.
miscellaneous
The Irish singer Brian McFadden stopped in 2001 at the castle
for the hand of his (today's ex) wife, Kerry Katona. At this
point his grandfather had also stopped at the grandmother's
hand.