Window, Banqueting Hall, Aughnanure

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Near the south-eastern corner stand the remains of the east wall of the once thatched Banqueting Hall. The remainder of the hall fell with the collapse of the natural arch over the river on which the Banqueting Hall had been built. The one remaining wall contains two windows beautifully decorated inside and out with stone carvings. The sofffit of one of them bears some stiff carvings of grapes, suggesting that wine was quaffed there by the O'Flahertys, and particularly by Morogh, who may have imported it from France and Spain through the city of Galway. It is said that unpopular guests were sometimes disposed of through a trap door into the subterranean river which ran under the hall!

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