For over four centuries, Dromoland Castle served as the fortified seat of the O’Brien clan—direct descendants of Brian Boru, the High King who unified Ireland in 1002. The castle’s 16th-century origins, expanded into a Gothic Revival masterpiece in the 1820s, represent unbroken territorial authority. Today’s guest occupies the same stone halls where Irish nobility negotiated … Continue reading Dromoland Castle: The O’Brien Dynasty’s Ancestral Fortress in County Clare