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Portumna · Co. Galway

Where Earl of Clanricarde Built Ireland's Most Sophisticated Jacobean Palace and Europe's Largest Swing Bridge Commands Shannon Navigation

1618 witnessed Richard Burke, 4th Earl of Clanricarde, completing Portumna Castle at a cost of £10,000 where this "probably finest and most sophisticated house of its period in Ireland" combined Jacobean elegance with semi-fortified defensive features overlooking Lough Derg wh…

Portumna is a small place in County Galway. We're still writing the proper hub for it — pubs, food, walks, the things to skip — and it'll appear here when it does.