Coleraine Castle was a castle situated at
Coleraine,
County Londonderry,
Northern Ireland
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The ''
Annals of Ulster'' reports that the
Earl of Atholl
The Mormaer or Earl of Atholl was the title of the holder of a medieval comital lordship straddling the highland province of Atholl (''Ath Fodhla''), now in northern Perthshire. Atholl is a special Mormaerdom, because a King of Atholl is repor ...
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Thomas fitz Roland, built the castle in 1214. It was later destroyed by
Hugh de Lacy and the
King of Tír Eoghain,
Aodh Méith Ó Néill, as evidenced by the same source in 1223.
The ''Annals of Ulster'' also reports that Thomas reconstructed the castle in 1228. There is evidence to suggest that Thomas may not have been in any position to carry out reconstruction efforts. In 1225, he was owed an annuity of 100 marks in compensation for his Irish losses. In 1227, he declared that he had been impoverished through serving the English Crown in Ireland. If it wasn't Thomas was reconstructed Coleraine Castle, it is possible that Hugh did. However, the only record of Hugh operating in Thomas' lands occurs almost two decades later, in 1241.
[ Brown (2016) p. 172.]
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Castles in County Londonderry