Mallow Castle

Mallow Castle is a National Monument located off the N72 on Bride properly Lane, Mallow and County Cork, Ireland. The first citadel in Mallow becomes built on the instructions of King John in 1185. In 1282, it came into the ownership of the Earls of Desmond. Following the Geraldine Wars, the estate become confiscated by means of Elizabeth I, who granted it to Sir Thomas Norrey together with the Lordship of Mallow and 6,000 acres of surrounding country.

The Desmond Castle, because it becomes known, fell into such terrible restore that during 1585 a new citadel was constructed on the same web site. The fortified residence dates from the 16th century and is believed to have been built via Sir Thomas Norreys, Lord President of Munster, who died in 1599. Following his demise, his daughter Elizabeth and her husband Sir John Jephson inherited the house, with their own family closing in Mallow for nearly 400 years. It became positioned underneath siege with the aid of Richard Butler, 3rd Viscount Mountgarret, in 1642 at some stage in the Irish Confederate Wars and did not fall. It turned into captured in 1645 by using James Tuchet, 3rd Earl of Castle haven.