The great castle was shortly afterwards restored, but in 1691 it was again burned, by Sir James Colter’s orders, and when the Royalists were defeated at Lixnaw the two Irish officers who carried out the order would have been hanged but for the intervention of Colonel Edward Denny. The famous “Denny Bible” in which this conflagration is recorded belongs to Tralee church, to which it was presented by the Denny family. In 1698 the House of Commons decided to help in the rebuilding of the castle. This fortress was of an L shape, but Sir Edward Denny, 3rd baronet, who succeeded to the title in 1795, added another wing in 1804, which contained several fine saloons, a large hall with a handsome circular staircase and other apartments. Soon after 1820 Sir Edward went to live in England. A black coach, with headless horses and coachman, was formerly said to drive through Tralee upon the death of one of the Denny family, and if any one looked out at it, a basin of blood was thrown in his face. Of later years a banshee is said to have taken its place. AUTHORITIES CONSULTED. C. Smith, “State of the County Kerry.” M. A. Hickson, “Old Kerry Records.” “The Antiquities of Tralee,” in _Kerry Magazine_. J. J. Howard, “Miscellanea Genealogica.” M. Hickson, “Ireland in the Seventeenth Century.” Gilbert, “The Castle of Dublin,” in _Dublin University Magazine_. Marquis of Kildare, “Earls of Kildare.” Carew MSS. Parliamentary Gazetteer. _TRIM CASTLE_ “What! rate--rebuke--and roughly send to prison The immediate heir of England! Was this easy? May this be washed in Lethe--and forgotten?” SHAKESPEARE. The ancient name of Trim was Ath Truim, signifying “the ford of the boortrees” or elders, the latter half of which appellation alone remains. It is situated on the Boyne, twenty-two and a half miles north-west by west of Dublin on the Enniskillen road. The castle lies east of the town, on the right bank of the river, and has been said to be the only castle in Ireland deserving the name. It is certainly the finest specimen of the Anglo-Norman fortress, and was one of the chief strongholds of the Pale. It occupies a sloping mound and its walls enclose a triangular area of about three acres, which measures 486 yards in circumference, and was protected by eight circular flanking towers at nearly equal distances and two gate towers. The north-east side was formerly washed by the Boyne, but now a low meadow intervenes. On the west or town side a gate-tower occupies the centre. The grooves for the portcullis are still perfect, and from abutting masonry it would appear that there had once been a drawbridge and barbican. The lower portion of the tower is rectangular and the upper part octagonal.