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Templehouse Castle was a rectangular keepless castle, built in 1181 located near the townland of Ballinacarrow on the outskirts of Ballymote. The Temple House lands were granted to the Knights Templar in 1216 and passed to the Knights Hospitaller when the Templars were disbanded in 1311. The castle was converted to a domestic residence in 1627 and besieged and badly damaged in 1641.
Near the castle is Temple House, a Georgian mansion set in a family estate of over 400 ha overlooking the lakeside ruins of a Knights Templar castle and is now a luxury country guest house, like a hotel. Originally built in c. 1825, it was substantially extended and embellished c. 1864.
References:The first written record of church in Danmark locality date back to the year 1291. Close to the church are several stones with a Christian text and cross inscribed. The oldest parts of the present red-brick church are from the 1300s. In the late 1400s the church was enlarged to the appearance it has today. The church has been modified both internally and externally several times, among other things after the fires in 1699 and 1889. There are lot of well-preserved mural paintings in the walls.