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According to tradition they married under Brehon law ' for one year certain ', and it is said that when the year was up Gráinne divorced Risdeárd and kept the castle.

Legend says that when the one year had passed, Ní Mháille and her followers locked themselves in Rockfleet Castle and Gráinne called out a window to Burke, " Richard Burke, I dismiss you.

" Those words had the effect of ending the marriage, but since she was in possession of the castle she kept it.

Rockfleet remained for centuries in the O ' Mháille family and is today open to the public.