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He’s dead now but he left the property to the Irish people and

his son and family still spend several weeks each summer living

in the upper floors of the castle. One of the women who works

there says it was really more like camping out as the upper

floors have very few amenities.

They plan to build a modular museum on the grounds to house

the rest of the collection which resides in various bank vaults at

the present time. We purchase tickets for £1.60 and start off

toward the castle which was more like a watch tower.

Craggaunown Castle was built around 1550 and we check out

the art and weavings displayed inside before walking on to the

Crannog. There are several recreations of lake dwellings like

those used during the Iron Age.

We are

surprised

at how

much they

resemble

African or

South

Pacific
huts. We

have fun

pretending

to be Iron

Age

housewives (It was a change from pretending to be 20
th
Century housewives).

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