Castlebar, the county town of Mayo, gets its name (Caisleán an Bharraigh) from the Norman de Barry family who built a castle there in the 13th century. The castle and land was subsequently acquired by the Bingham family who later adopted the Lucan title.
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Castlebar is a town steeped in history and has played a major part in some of the most pivotal events in Irish history including the 1798 Rising, ...
The town is named after a Norman adventurer named De Barrie, who founded a castle here in 1235. (Castle Barry.) By 1400 the time of The Composition of Mayo ...
(Castlebar featured prominently in 1798), when the French/Irish force under General Humbert defeated the English under General Lake A monument was erected in ...