During a trip from Dublin, Ní Mháille attempted to pay a courtesy visit to Howth Castle, home of Christopher St Lawrence, 8th Baron Howth ( d. 1589 ) However, she was informed that the family was at dinner and the castle gates were closed against her.

The southern gateway into the Bastille became the principle entrance to the castle in 1553, the other three gateways being closed.

The boarding school in Plön Castle was closed in 2001 under the state government of Heide Simonis and the castle was sold to the Fielmann optical company.

The castle was used in this way until 1839 when the facility was closed ; the castle was then used as a drill hall and as a county court.

Opposition to the Poor Law grew, and in 1834 the law was changed to reform the system ; the poorhouse on the castle site was closed by 1839, the inhabitants being moved to the workhouse at Wickham Market.

Entry to the castle keep is closed throughout the renovation, but visitors can view the restoration process from observation platforms and they can continue to enter other areas of the castle complex.

However by 1885 it would appear the visitors were becoming a nuisance as the earl closed the castle to visitors, causing consternation in the town.

Because of this, the castle is only open to visitors on specific dates and private family quarters are closed to the public.

One knows by an old sight that the castle then had the form of a quadrilateral closed by a second wing in return and, at the bottom of the court, by arcades.

The former county buildings, now partially closed down, overlook the castle.

The castle is now closed to the public.

The castle is closed on Mondays.

The castle is closed in November each year for maintenance and cleaning.

Each castle is composed by a base building, showing a closed ( yellow ) gate, on top of which stand three battlemented towers.

the castle is closed for renovations.

The castle is locked and closed to K and the townspeople ; neither can gain access.

The castle is closed to the public.

The castle is closed to tour buses and large groups, but may be accessed by guided tour.

Between November 2007 and October 2009 the castle was closed due to its exterior being given an entirely new harl, returning to it what is believed to be a close copy of its original colour shade.

In 2011, the castle was closed to guided tours while refurbishments are carried out.

This castle was burned in 1602 by Hugh O ' Neill, 2nd Earl of Tyrone as the English forces closed in on the Gaelic lords towards the end of the Nine Years ' War ( Ireland ).

The first Ottoman governor of Bosnia, Isa-Beg Ishaković, transformed whatever cluster of villages there was there into a city and state capitol by building a number of key objects, including a mosque, a closed marketplace, a public bath, a hostel, and of course the governor ’ s castle (“ Saray ”) which gave the city its present name.

Between then and 1463 he built the core of the city's Old Town district, including a mosque, a closed marketplace, a public bath, a hostel, and the Governor's castle ( Saray ), which gave the city its present name.

The castle, garden and nearby limekilns are in the care of the National Trust and open to visitors.

They start at the Oktagon and during a one hour walk through the park visitors can follow the water's way until they reach the lake of the castle Wilhelmshöhe where a big fountain of about 50 metres marks the end of the spectacle.

There is still an area of her original castle in the basement of the House ( the Dungeons ), which is on view to visitors.

In the 16th century, Poitiers impressed visitors because of its large size, and important features, including " royal courts, university, prolific printing shops, wealthy religious institutions, cathedral, numerous parishes, markets, impressive domestic architecture, extensive fortifications, and castle.

There are three attractively-designed museums in the city: the Museum of Prehistory, which displays archaeological finds from Canton Zug ; the castle houses the Museum of Cultural History of the city and Canton Zug, and Zug Art Gallery attracts visitors with its exhibitions: www. museenzug. ch

The story given to visitors by castle tour guides states that one seat in the chapel is always reserved for the " Grey Lady " ( supposedly a ghost which inhabits the castle ), thought to be Janet Douglas, Lady Glamis.

Thanks to the parking lot and road built next to the castle it currently welcomes a great number of visitors.

By 1960, the castle, which was open to visitors, had eight towers a guard room, bugle tower, castle yard, enclosed sun porch, modern kitchen, garage, dungeon, and a wishing well.

Charles Howard, 11th Duke of Norfolk was known for his restoration work and improvements to the castle beginning in 1787 and continuing for a number of years, as he desired to live there and entertain his visitors there.

It has an interesting castle called ' De Cannenburgh ', which is open to visitors ( guided tour compulsory ).

Extensive pleasure gardens were built within the castle and older parts redesigned to allow visitors to enjoy the resulting views.

Modern visitors to the castle enter the complex through the Bailey from the south, which also contains the modern car park for the castle.

This would have provided high status visitors with dramatic views of the castle, reinforcing the political prestige of the owners.

Closure of the prison will eventually allow the castle to be opened to visitors and tourists as a permanent attraction.

In the meantime, while access to the keep, towers, battlements and dungeons is currently denied to visitors, the castle operates limited guided tours seven days a week.

The elaborate gatehouse, with an excessive five sets of doors and six portcullises, also appears to have been designed to impress visitors and to invoke an image of an Arthurian castle, then believed to have been Byzantine in character.

Bodiam Castle built in the 1380s possessed a moat, towers and gunports but, rather than being a genuine military fortification, the castle was primarily intended to be admired by visitors and used as a luxurious dwelling – the chivalric architecture implicitly invoking comparisons with Edward I's great castle at Beaumaris.

By the 1740s Windsor Castle had become an early tourist attraction ; wealthier visitors who could afford to pay the castle keeper could enter, see curiosities such as the castle's narwhal horn, and by the 1750s buy the first guidebooks.

Purchasing and reading guidebooks became an increasingly important part of visiting castles ; by the 1820s visitors could buy an early guidebook at Goodrich outlining the castle's history, the first guidebook to the Tower of London was published in 1841 and Scottish castle guidebooks became well known for providing long historical accounts of their sites, often drawing on the plots of Romantic novels for the details.

The Pontefract Heritage Group run ' Ghost Walks ' for visitors wishing to roam the ( supposedly ) haunted castle at night.

Audio and visual displays now help to reconstruct a view of life in a medieval castle, while a history of the site is documented in the adjacent visitors ' centre.