Site Search. Book Tickets Online. This is the only remaining completely walled city in Ireland and one of the finest examples of Walled Cities in Europe.
The Walls were built during the period by the honourable, the Irish Society as defences for early seventeenth century settlers from England and Scotland. The Walls, which are approximately 1. The Walls vary in width between 12 and 35 feet. Many of them thundered in anger over the two seventeenth century sieges.
In the surviving 24 cannon were restored, and under expert supervision and often by hand, craftsmen, cleared the barrels of centuries of rubbish, stripped off layers of paint and corrosion and bathed, sponged and waxed the cannon back to their former glory. The cannon are displayed throughout the City Walls with the impressive Roaring Meg located on the double bastion.
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