Very often in the great hall there was a central fire ... situated so that they opened over the moat. If you look at a medieval castle, you can very often see little stone extensions built ...

Historian Ruth Goodman and archaeologists Tom Pinfold and Peter Ginn discover castle interior design and decoration, from the great hall to the toilets. Medieval castles were not bare stone inside ...

Beneath the building lie the remains of a castle belonging to the MacDermots, one of medieval Ireland’s most powerful families. From the twelfth to the seventeenth century, the MacDermots ruled ...