Built in 1250 by the O'Bannon family.
Many people were imprisoned and executed in the castle, and it is supposedly haunted by several spectres, the most terrifying of these beings is a small hunched creature whose apparition is said to be accompanied by a rotting stench of a decomposing corpse and the smell of sulphur.
Since 1991, the castle has been privately owned by Sean Ryan, who is undertaking restoration work.
4 miles from Roscrea - R421, Co. Tipperary
