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Carrickmines Castle

Cornelscourt, Italy

Carrickmines Castle

Carrickmines Castle is an archaeological site in Carrickmines, County Dublin, in eastern Ireland. The castle was built in the Middle Ages to protect the English-ruled Pale around Dublin. The mostly subsurface ruins lay in the path of the M50 motorway, completed in 2005. Sections of the medieval wall

s and some sections of the castle's defensive structures were preserved within or under M50 roundabouts.

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