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Lea Castle, County Laois

Lea Castle’s story runs from its medieval founding on the River Barrow frontier through Gaelic resistance, Tudor conquest and Cromwell’s 1650 bombardment; a surviving cast‑iron cannonball embodies this violent siege and the castle’s later decline into romantic ruin.

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