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Questions may not only relate to British castles and parish churches but history, topography, old buildings, antiquities, archaeology, folklore and people and publications relating to these subjects generally. To enter: e-mail your answers with your home address to salter.mike@ukonline.co.uk

Rules:
1. Competitions open to contestants anywhere in the world. No purchase needed to enter.
2. First correct entry received for each quiz, whether by e-mail, phone or ordinary post, will win the prize.
3. Each person may submit just one entry to one out of the three quizzes.
4. Each prize consists of one Folly Publications book posted to anywhere in the world, or a medium sized T-shirt with sketches of six Irish castles on it.

Five questions about castles in the British Isles, originally set in August 2005:
1. Ranulph de Blundeville, Earl of Chester, built three stone castles of enciente with D-shaped towers in the 1220s. Two were Bolingbroke (Lincolnshire) and Beeston (Cheshire). Name the third castle?
2. Name a Welsh castle of stone captured by Owain Glyndwr and used by him as a headquarters. Several of his family became prisoners when it was eventually recaptured by forces loyal to Henry IV?
3. Name a huge fifteenth century Scotish tower house with the unusual feature of two projecting wings both on the same side. The building still remains in use and lies within a wedge-shaped barmkin?
4. Which Irish county contains the largest number of circular tower houses?
5. Which English castle has a rebuilt polygonal shell keep now occupied by university students?

The section of questions on Long Distance Walks has been won by Andrew Bishop.

Five questions about churches and chapels within castles and walled towns.
1. Which Welsh town has a church of St Mary with a vestry in a circular corner tower of the town walls.
2. Which English castle contains a mostly 16th century chapel dedicated to St Peter and Vincula.
3. Which Scottish castle has a vaulted Norman chapel dedicated to St Margaret.
4. Which English walled town with churches over its gateways contains a larger church with a nave of c1698-1704.
5. Which castle in Munster has two chapel blocks, the earlier one (13th century) later converted into a hall block.