CARRICKABRAGHEY CASTLE, ISLE OF DOAGH, INISHOWEN, CO. DONEGAL, IRELAND.
VIEW OF CARRICKABRAGHEY CASTLE WITH THE GLASHEDY ISLAND IN THE BACKGROUND TO THE RIGHT HAND SIDE.
CARRICKABRAGHEY CASTLE STANDS ON A ROCKY OUTCROP CALLED THE FRIARS ROCK AT THE NORTH-WESTERN EXTREMITY OF THE ISLE OF DOAGH, AT THE HEAD OF POLLAN BAY. THE CASTLE IS THOUGHT TO DATE FROM AROUND THE 16TH CENTURY.  IT WAS LAST INHABITED AROUND 1665.  IN THE WATERS BESIDE THE CASTLE IS A ROCK CALLED 'THE HISSING ROCK' SO NAMED BECAUSE A CRACK IN THE ROCK CAUSES THE SEA TO SPURT FROM IT WHEN THE TIDE COMES IN.


GLASHEDY ISLAND, APPROXIMATELY ONE MILE OFF POLLAN STRAND, BALLYLIFIN AND LIES IN THE ARC BETWEEN MALIN HEAD AND DUNAFF HEAD, INISHOWEN, COUNTY DONEGAL ON THE NORTH WEST COAST OF IRELAND. THIS IS A SMALL UNINHABITED ISLAND AND WAS FORMALLY CALLED SEALE ISLAND, IT’S NAME WAS CHANGED TO GLASHEDY IN THE EARLY 19TH CENTURY.

ALTHOUGH THE ISLAND IS MAINLY ROCK, THERE IS AN EXPANSE OF GREEN GRASS COVERING IT’S TOP ON THIS IS WHERE THE NAME GLASHEDY COMES FROM (GLAS BEING THE GAELIC FOR GREEN). 

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