A little spot which is delightful to the strangers — This line clearly shows that Robeen was, in the time of the writer (1417), in the possession of the Galls or strangers, the name by which the Irish then designated the English settlers. There are still to be seen at the place the ruins of a castle and church of considerable antiquity, said to have been erected by the family of Burke. According to the Annals of the Four Masters the territories of Muintir Murchadha, now the barony of Clare, in the county of Galway, Conmaicne Cuile Toladh, now the barony of Kilmaine, in the county of Mayo, and Ceara, now the barony of Carra, were castellated by the English Barons of Ireland in the year 1238.