We’ve been asking our users what makes a home?

As you probably know, pretty much everyone in Ireland lives in either a castle or a cottage, so to celebrate this undisputed fact, here are some castles you can currently buy there.

Most of them are of Norman provenance, and they obviously weren’t big on floor-to-ceiling windows, the Normans.

But if security was your main concern, and you’d always wanted a balcony from which you could pour boiling oil on marauding locals, they were the lads to go to.

Grand Designs: it was very different back then!

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