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Castle Robin is a seventeenth-century fortified house situated near Lisburn in County Antrim, Northern Ireland. Built during a period of considerable unrest and settlement, the structure represents the domestic architecture of the early modern plantation era, when defensive features remained essential in Irish houses. The site lies on bedrock comprising Hibernian Greensands Formation and Ulster White Limestone Formation, Late Cretaceous deposits that underlie much of the surrounding landscape.
The fortified house stands in proximity to an earlier medieval motte and bailey earthwork, indicating continuity of settlement and strategic importance across centuries. The medieval fortification, a characteristic Norman defensive form comprising an artificial mound and timber palisade, demonstrates the site's long significance within local topography.
Castle Robin is protected as a heritage monument by the Historic Environment Division under reference 4968, recognition of its importance as evidence of seventeenth-century plantation settlement patterns and domestic fortification practices in Ulster. The survival of both structures at this location provides insight into the evolution of settlement defences from medieval to early modern times.
Castle robin. c17th fortified house built near motte & bailey is a scheduled monument protected by Department for Communities NI under reference 4968. View the official record →
Castle Robin is a seventeenth-century fortified house situated near Lisburn in County Antrim, Northern Ireland. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by DfC Northern Ireland (NISMR) under reference 4968.
Castle robin. c17th fortified house built near motte & bailey dates from the medieval period, and is classified as a fortification. It is one of over 32,000 scheduled monuments protected across the UK.
Castle robin. c17th fortified house built near motte & bailey is a Scheduled Ancient Monument, legally protected by DfC Northern Ireland (NISMR) — the body responsible for designating and safeguarding heritage sites in Ni. The official designation reference is 4968.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Lime kilns (5no. associated with knocknadona quarry (3.3 km), Barrow (4.7 km), Lisburn castle, castle gardens, lisnagarvey. castle later artillery fort (site of) & gate (4.7 km).
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Castle robin. c17th fortified house built near motte & bailey stands on Hibernian Greensands Formation And Ulster White Limestone Formation (Undifferentiated), bedrock that formed in the Late Cretaceous. The rock here is chalk and sandstone.