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The Tower House at Kildavnet, on Achill Island, is known locally as Grace O`Malley`s Castle, it is some 40ft 12m in height and has three storeys. It`s location, at the mouth of Achill Sound and protecting the passage that connects Clew Bay with Blacksod Bay made it a strategic location for Grace O`Malley Graunaile the Pirate Queen whose fleet dominated these waters in the late 1500`s |
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