10 Castles In Ireland People Still Live In Today

Between 1920 and 1923, Irish revolutionaries burned almost three hundred of the country's grand houses and castles to the ground, a deliberate statement about who Ireland belonged to now. Most of what burned stayed lost. Ranked from remarkable to genuinely difficult to explain, ten Irish castles that escaped that fire, or burned anyway and were rebuilt, and where families are still living, this morning, inside walls a revolution was built to remove.