Have you stayed in a castle in Ireland or Scotland?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:No because all the Irish castles are gone. I don't want to stay in places built by the English who took the land, persecuted and starved the people.

Amen!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:No because all the Irish castles are gone. I don't want to stay in places built by the English who took the land, persecuted and starved the people.

You live in a house built on lands stolen from the Native Americans who were kicked out of their lands and starved / died of diseases they had no resistance to.

Good luck being judgemental.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:No because all the Irish castles are gone. I don't want to stay in places built by the English who took the land, persecuted and starved the people.

You live in a house built on lands stolen from the Native Americans who were kicked out of their lands and starved / died of diseases they had no resistance to.

Good luck being judgemental.

How do you know where I live?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:No because all the Irish castles are gone. I don't want to stay in places built by the English who took the land, persecuted and starved the people.

You live in a house built on lands stolen from the Native Americans who were kicked out of their lands and starved / died of diseases they had no resistance to.

Good luck being judgemental.

I'm also not being judgemental. You are being defensive. I never said that people who stay at castles in Ireland are bad people. I just choose not to. I prefer to seek out the more authentic Celtic sites. If I want to see an English or Norman Castle, I will go to England.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:No because all the Irish castles are gone. I don't want to stay in places built by the English who took the land, persecuted and starved the people.

Amen!

Hmmmm....I'm pretty darn Irish, and this wouldn't bother me. We took that land back, gosh darn it! (Or at least we took back MOST of it.). We should get to enjoy the castles built by our forebears on their stolen land. I think our great-great-great-great...grandparents would get a kick out of that, don't you think?

Just don't kiss the Blarney stone. I'm told by my Irish friends that drunk guys pee on it as a joke on the tourists.

[Anonymous]

I looked at both Ashford and Dromoland and they both seem to only have rooms that accommodate two.

Any suggestions for castles that are a little more family friendly?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I looked at both Ashford and Dromoland and they both seem to only have rooms that accommodate two.

Any suggestions for castles that are a little more family friendly?

I was surprised to see the same thing. But many trip advisor reviewers talk about the 5 star visit for their family with many children. So I figured if need to contact the property directly.

[Anonymous]

I stayed at Achnagairn in the Scottish highlands (near to Inverness). It was nice, though more of a stately home than a castle.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I looked at both Ashford and Dromoland and they both seem to only have rooms that accommodate two.

Any suggestions for castles that are a little more family friendly?

Not true for Dromoland. We had a deluxe room which slept two adults, two children (two double beds in the room).

[Anonymous]

Also Dromoland was really quite family friendly. They had peddle bikes for the kids, expansive grounds, and children are allowed to tour the aviary and go on falconry walks. In fact we found out about the hotel originally by looking at the hotels the Adventures by Disney itinerary used, specifically because we wanted kid-approved places!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:https://www.sheencotravel.com/scotland-vacations/custom-scotland-castle-tours/?LeadSourceID=1907&gclid=EAIaIQobChMI0uSW7J782AIVD51-Ch0ddgfwEAAYASAAEgKNFPD_BwE

Oh my thanks for this! Looking through the tour, I’m half expecting to run into Jamie and the Fraser clan.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:No because all the Irish castles are gone. I don't want to stay in places built by the English who took the land, persecuted and starved the people.

You live in a house built on lands stolen from the Native Americans who were kicked out of their lands and starved / died of diseases they had no resistance to.

Good luck being judgemental.

How do you know where I live?

Well, you are posting on a Washington, DC based forum.....

You would be hard pressed to find a single acre anywhere that hasn't been "stolen" at one point or another. Even in Ireland before the British came along when the Irish chiefs and Norman barons frequently raided and attacked and stole from one another.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote: We took that land back, gosh darn it! (Or at least we took back MOST of it.). We should get to enjoy the castles built by our forebears on their stolen land. I think our great-great-great-great...grandparents would get a kick out of that, don't you think?

Just don't kiss the Blarney stone. I'm told by my Irish friends that drunk guys pee on it as a joke on the tourists.

Yes, the British land acts of the 19th century heavily subsidized the sales of estate lands to the Irish peasants. Something which they ironically never did in Britain proper.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:No because all the Irish castles are gone. I don't want to stay in places built by the English who took the land, persecuted and starved the people.

You live in a house built on lands stolen from the Native Americans who were kicked out of their lands and starved / died of diseases they had no resistance to.

Good luck being judgemental.

I'm also not being judgemental. You are being defensive. I never said that people who stay at castles in Ireland are bad people. I just choose not to. I prefer to seek out the more authentic Celtic sites. If I want to see an English or Norman Castle, I will go to England.

Pot calling kettle black? Your tone was quite judgemental.

And it's not true all Irish castles are gone. There are plenty of ruined tower houses that belonged to the old barons and some are still inhabitable. Truth be told, there was really nothing comparable to the castles of England or France because Ireland was a very primitive and wild and extremely impoverished and quite barbaric island long before the English invasions. The first proper castles in Ireland were the ones built by the Normans when they arrived in the 12th century, and it's up to you to decide if the Normans were sufficiently Irish enough (an old saying is that the Normans became more Irish than the Irish themselves).

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:No because all the Irish castles are gone. I don't want to stay in places built by the English who took the land, persecuted and starved the people.

You live in a house built on lands stolen from the Native Americans who were kicked out of their lands and starved / died of diseases they had no resistance to.

Good luck being judgemental.

I'm also not being judgemental. You are being defensive. I never said that people who stay at castles in Ireland are bad people. I just choose not to. I prefer to seek out the more authentic Celtic sites. If I want to see an English or Norman Castle, I will go to England.

Pot calling kettle black? Your tone was quite judgemental.

And it's not true all Irish castles are gone. There are plenty of ruined tower houses that belonged to the old barons and some are still inhabitable. Truth be told, there was really nothing comparable to the castles of England or France because Ireland was a very primitive and wild and extremely impoverished and quite barbaric island long before the English invasions. The first proper castles in Ireland were the ones built by the Normans when they arrived in the 12th century, and it's up to you to decide if the Normans were sufficiently Irish enough (an old saying is that the Normans became more Irish than the Irish themselves).

Ok dude chill. I just prefer the Celtic sites. I think the "wild, barbaric" people were interesting. I love stumbling across stone circles and weird statues like the Celtic Janus. Been to Newgrange? I loved that and I went to a bunch of less restored places too in Ireland, Wales and Scotland.