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Extract from the Dundrum Travel Guides:
Although it's not officially in the Lecale region, whose inland ending is at Clough,
DUNDRUM
, just a few miles down the Newcastle road, has some quite spectacular ruins of a large Norman
castle
(April-Sept Tues-Sat 10am-6pm, Sun 2-6pm; Oct-March Sat 10am-4pm, Sun 2-4pm; 75p). The town lies beside a hammer-headed tidal bay, with the ruins sitting dramatically above, a steep fifteen-minute walk uphill from the village. The castle has a central circular donjon (with a fine spiral stairway in its walls), a fortified gateway and drum towers, all set upon a motte and bailey. In its time it was described as the most impenet...
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