Kite aerial photo of Blackness Castle, Blackness, Scotland. The castle was built in the 1440s on a promontory projecting north into the Firth of Forth.

Black Castle

Leighlinbridge, East Lothian

Scotland

Historic site in County Carlow, Ireland

Key Information

Construction

Castle Type

Current Status

No remains

Gallery

Dr John Wells

Historical Overview

Leighlinbridge Castle, also called Black Castle, is in the village of Leighlinbridge, County Carlow, Ireland, on the River Barrow. The early castle was built c.1181 for the Normans. In the 1540s a Carmelite friary was converted into a new fort by Edward Bellingham. The remains of the castle are now dilapidated - a 50-foot-tall (15 m) broken castle tower and parts of one side of an enclosing wall are still extant.

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