Aughnanure Castle, Galway
The 'ferocious O'Flaherties', masters of the whole territory of west Connaught, built this fine castle in the early sixteenth century, possibly on the site of the thirteenth-century Norman fortification. It occupies a position of some strength close to Lough Corrib on what is virtually a rocky island formed by the Drimmeen River, separating into two branches and reuniting at the other side - a circumstance that gave rise to the old phrase "Aughnanure, where the salmon come under the castle".
