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Crevinish Castle is a seventeenth-century fortification located in County Fermanagh, Northern Ireland. The castle stands on bedrock formed from the Tyrone Group, a Visean-age geological formation comprising limestone, mudstone, sandstone and siltstone interspersed with chert, coal and conglomerate. This varied stone foundation would have provided local building material for the castle's construction during a period when fortified dwellings were established throughout Ulster to consolidate control and defend against incursion.
The castle occupies a strategic position in the landscape of south-west Ulster, where the complex geology of the Tyrone Group creates distinctive terrain. Its location within Fermanagh places it among a significant cluster of seventeenth-century fortifications built during the period of English expansion and plantation in Ireland, when such structures served both defensive and administrative functions for settler communities.
Crevinish Castle is protected as a scheduled monument by the Historic Environment Division of Northern Ireland under reference 9192. The site remains an important record of early modern fortification practices and settlement patterns in the region, reflecting the military architecture and strategic priorities of its era.
Crevinish castle. castle is a scheduled monument protected by Department for Communities NI under reference 9192. View the official record →
Crevinish Castle is a seventeenth-century fortification located in County Fermanagh, Northern Ireland. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by DfC Northern Ireland (NISMR) under reference 9192.
Crevinish castle. castle dates from the c17th period, and is classified as a fortification. It is one of over 32,000 scheduled monuments protected across the UK.
Crevinish castle. castle 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 9192.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Counterscarp rath (6.1 km), Counterscarp rath (6.2 km), Abbey point, the ebby, the wee ebby. monastery (site of) (7.1 km).
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Crevinish castle. castle stands on Tyrone Group, bedrock that formed in the Visean. The rock here is limestone, mudstone, sandstone and siltstone, with subordinate chert, coal and conglomerate.