mallow castle

A castle probably built by Sir Thomas Norreys who died in 1599. It is a long rectangular building with polygonal turrets (one incorporating a staircase) at the corners of the north wall. Wings project from the centre of the north and south walls, the northern one containing the entrance with a finely moulded doorway.

The windows are mullioned and have holes for muskets below them. The castle was besieged by Mountgarrett in 1642, but Jephson (who had married Sir Thomas Norrey's only daughter, Elizabeth) resisted successfully.

Three years later Lord Castlehaven took the castle, and it was abandoned some time after this. The Jephson family built a mansion from the old stables.