Greencastle Inishowen
By Eileen M. Bennett

Illustrated by G. Ridsdill Smith

This little book has been written to give visitors to Greencastle an account of the past history of the place - village, fort and castle.

It was entirely due to Mr. Ward Jackson of London, a visitor to Greencastle, that I became interested in local history, and it was his suggestions, and those of Mr. H. P. Swan, the great authority on Inishowen, that enabled me to discover the amazing wealth of information in old books, records and State Papers. They have allowed me to quote from their books and articles, and I should like to thank them, and many other people, for their help, and for the loan of books.

I have been fortunate in having the text illustrated by Captain G. Ridsdill Smith of Haileybury College, who ever fails to capture the spirit of Greencastle in his drawings and writings. He has allowed me to conclude with an extract from an article in 'Country Life.'

Eileen M. Bennet

Fourteenth Century

Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries

Seventeenth Century

Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries