Paul and I traveled around Ireland for over three weeks in 1999 on bikes, trains and buses. One of the places we visited was Dunboy Castle in Castletownbeare. We paid the farm boy the Irish pound and went off to see the castle. It had four walls and was three stories high, but you could see straight up into the sky. No floors or ceilings, windows were just empty holes and the door was gone. The floor was mud and you could see signs of cows using the place. But we took a picture through the doors with our bikes out front and a sailboat off in the distance. We decided if we ever made it to Ireland with our sailboat that we would anchor out front and take the same picture. Well we made it here, only life changes. It wasn't actually the castle that we had seen, it was the Puxley manor house from two centuries later. We found the real ruins of the Dunboy Castle at the end of the peninsula and took a picture with our sailboat behind in the anchorage. The castle was the home of the O'Sullivan family, who were defeated by the Cromwell forces. The Cromwells built a fort around the castle. Meanwhile, the Puxley manor house has been restored and added onto for a hotel. There is a conference center and several apartment/condo buildings as part of the complex. The sad part is, they were never finished. They look complete on the outside but someone ran out of money. The Celtic tiger stopped roaring. So now there is a locked fence around everything and no sign of people anywhere. There isn't even any construction equipment. It looks great now but I have to wonder if they are the new ruins?