The North Wall

The North Wall. . Blarney Castle sits directly on an eight-metre cliff of rock, which formed the quarry for building the castle., This is the most imposing view you’ll get of the Castle and it looks even more dramatic because the walls slope gradually inwards. The blarney is even in the architecture., The seam you can see on the right-hand side of the wall shows that the Castle was built in two stages, the right-hand part being a tall thin tower., The casemented oriel window projects out from the Earl’s Bedchamber and sets Blarney a cut above the everyday Irish castle. But what projects from the three large square holes in the wall is best left unsaid. These are the outlets for the garderobes, and before you ask for a translation, note these were always built downwind., High above you, you will see two identical two-light windows. Because these were clearly not designed to be glazed, we can tell these are very early features. But it was not all cold winds and bleak stonework. Originally, these walls would have been whitewashed.