Sandal Castle Sussex and Reigate in Surrey, Castle Acre Castle in Norfolk and Conisbrough in Yorkshire. In 1347, Edward III granted Sandal to his fifth son Edmund of Langley who was six years old at the time. His elder brother John of Gaunt held Pontefract and Knaresborough Castles, Edmund was granted Wark Castle near Coldstream in the Scottish Borders, and in 1377 Fotheringhay Castle in Northamptonshire which was to become his home, and for the next 75 years the family seems to have spent little time at Sandal, leaving it to the management of constables or stewards. In 1385 Edmund was made
Ballynahow Castle Ballynahow Castle Ballynahow Castle is a tower house and a National Monument in County Tipperary, Ireland. Ballynahow Castle is located west-northwest of Thurles, on the west bank of the Farneybridge River (a tributary of the River Suir). Ballynahow Castle was built in the early 16th century by the Purcell family, an Old English family who held the title of Baron of Loughmoe. The lower floors were used in the 1840s as a cottage. The tower house was transferred to state ownership in 1930. The tower house ("caiseal") rises to the chemin de ronde, off which are four evenly spaced machicolations.