knockelly castle

A late Elizabethan or early Jacobean tower-house (now used as a cow-house), surrounded by one of the most extensive and best-preserved bawns in the country, with massive towers at the corners. Little is known of its history, other than a man named Keating acquired it in the mid 18th century, but on non-payment of rent, he was forcefully evicted by the owners, the Everards. Later a family called Jolly lived in it.