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Fortified House and Bawn, Antrim is a post-medieval fortification constructed during the seventeenth century as a defended residence and farmstead. The structure exemplifies the domestic military architecture that emerged following the Ulster Plantation, combining a fortified dwelling with a bawn—a high stone wall enclosing ancillary buildings and livestock. The site's strategic positioning reflects the security concerns of the period, when English and Scottish settlers required defensive measures against local resistance.
The monument occupies ground underlain by Palaeogene extrusive rocks, mafic lavas and tuffs formed during ancient volcanic activity. This bedrock geology has shaped the landscape of the Antrim plateau characteristic of the region. The fortified house and bawn witnessed the events of 1641, when the Irish Confederate uprising swept across Ulster, making this site a focal point of the wider conflict that destabilised the plantation settlements.
Today the earthworks and structural remains survive as testament to seventeenth-century plantation life and the tensions inherent in Irish settlement colonisation. The monument is protected by the Historic Environment Division of the Department for Communities, Northern Ireland, ensuring the preservation of this significant record of Early Modern Ireland and the Ulster plantation experience.
Fortified house & bawn & site of battle, 1641 is a scheduled monument protected by Department for Communities NI under reference 3433. View the official record →
Fortified House and Bawn, Antrim is a post-medieval fortification constructed during the seventeenth century as a defended residence and farmstead. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by DfC Northern Ireland (NISMR) under reference 3433.
Fortified house & bawn & site of battle, 1641 dates from the post-med period, and is classified as a fortification. It is one of over 32,000 scheduled monuments protected across the UK.
Fortified house & bawn & site of battle, 1641 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 3433.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Mcdonald's fort. rath & adjoining earthworks (5.7 km), Mcdonald's fort. rath & adjoining earthworks (5.7 km), Toome castle. tower-house & bawn (6 km).
This page is just one thread. A full Aubrey report pulls together 14 strands of Fortified house & bawn & site of battle, 1641's history, each drawn from the record and mapped to the exact spot:
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Fortified house & bawn & site of battle, 1641 stands on Unnamed Extrusive Rocks, Palaeogene, bedrock that formed in the Paleogene. The rock here is mafic lava and mafic tuff.