Cashel, Ireland
12th century
Meath, Ireland
c. 1176
Donegal, Ireland
15th century
Malahide, Ireland
1185
Cong, Ireland
1228
Achill Island, Ireland
c. 1429
Carlow, Ireland
1207-1213
Ballymote, Ireland
c. 1300
Greencastle, Ireland
1305
Creeslough, Ireland
c. 1420
Newport, Ireland
15th century
Shrule, Ireland
c. 1238
Strade, Ireland
1260
Ballymote, Ireland
1181
Carnacon, Ireland
13th century
Doune Castle was originally built in the thirteenth century, then probably damaged in the Scottish Wars of Independence, before being rebuilt in its present form in the late 14th century by Robert Stewart, Duke of Albany (c. 1340–1420), the son of King Robert II of Scots, and Regent of Scotland from 1388 until his death. Duke Robert"s stronghold has survived relatively unchanged and complete, and the whole castle was traditionally thought of as the result of a single period of construction at this time. The castle passed to the crown in 1425, when Albany"s son was executed, and was used as a royal hunting lodge and dower house.
In the later 16th century, Doune became the property of the Earls of Moray. The castle saw military action during the Wars of the Three Kingdoms and Glencairn"s rising in the mid-17th century, and during the Jacobite risings of the late 17th century and 18th century.