Towards the end of the Nine Years War, taking advantage of the distraction of the English, Chieftain John O’Connor briefly re-occupied the castle only to be put out again in 1603 by George Carew, the Governor of Munster.
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King James 1 restored the castle to the O’Connors in 1607 but in 1651 during the Cromwellian conquest of Ireland, it was again captured, this time by Cromwellian forces under Edmund Ludlow.