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In the guidebooks we read that it was once a place of strength and importance, and that Hugh de Lacy the same bold knight 'who had won all Ireland for the English from the Shannon to the sea' had taken this castle from a native chieftain called Neal O'Caharney, whose family he had slain, all save one; and then it adds: 'Sir Hugh came one day, with three Englishmen, that he might show them the castle, when there came to him a youth of the men of Meath a certain Gilla Naher O'Mahey, foster-brother of O'Caharney himself with his battle-axe concealed beneath his cloak, and while De Lacy was reading the petition he gave him, he dealt him such a blow that his head flew off many yards away, both head and body being afterwards buried in the ditch of the castle.
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