This particular subject came up at dinner this very evening.
This happens to be my son-in-law's lineage:
The remains of
Ballylahan Castle are located close to the River Moy in the parish of
Straide. The castle was built by Jordan de Exeter in 1239 when he was the
Anglo Norman Sheriff of Connacht, and ancestor of the Clan Siurtain
Gaileng/Mac Siurtain.
He built the castle of
Ballylahan on the present junction of the N58 and R321 for his reputedly demanding and
domineering wife.
It overlooked
Athlethan, or Straide, where he built an abbey for the Franciscans but,
at the behest of his wife, transferred it to the Dominicans in 1253.
Little evidence of what
the castle looked like in its time is now left.
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