Callan (TV series) Callan (TV series) Callan is a British action/drama television series created by James Mitchell, first airing between 1967 and 1972. It starred Edward Woodward as David Callan, an agent of a state secret service dealing with internal security threats to the United Kingdom. Though portrayed as having responsibilities similar to those of the real-life MI5, Callan's fictional "Section" has "carte blanche" to use the most ruthless of methods. In the storylines interrogation is by means of torture, while extrajudicial killings are so routine they have a colour-coded filing system. With the possible exception of "La Femme Nikita", no TV series
Callan Motte chamber, a kitchen and other wooden chambers’. Local legend claims that cannons were placed on the motte by Oliver Cromwell's soldiers during the 1650 Siege of Callan. Callan Motte Callan Motte is a motte-and-bailey and National Monument in Callan, Ireland. Callan Motte is in the centre of Callan, north of the Kings River, west of Upper Bridge Street and east of the N76. Motte-and-bailey castles were a primitive type of castle built after the Norman invasion, a mound of earth topped by a wooden palisade and tower. Callan Motte was built c. 1217 by Geoffrey FitzRobert, seneschal to William Marshal,