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Galgorm Castle is a seventeenth-century fortified house and bawn located near Ballymena in County Antrim, Northern Ireland. The site comprises a residential structure accompanied by a defensive enclosure typical of early modern Ulster plantation settlements, representing the architectural response of English and Scottish settlers to the colonisation of Ireland during this period. The bawn, a walled courtyard, would have provided security for both the dwelling and associated agricultural or domestic activity. The monument dates from the post-medieval period and survives as a significant example of early seventeenth-century defensive settlement architecture in the region.
Galgorm castle. c17th house & bawn is a scheduled monument protected by Department for Communities NI under reference 2557. View the official record →
Galgorm Castle is a seventeenth-century fortified house and bawn located near Ballymena in County Antrim, Northern Ireland. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by DfC Northern Ireland (NISMR) under reference 2557.
Galgorm castle. c17th house & bawn 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.
Galgorm castle. c17th house & bawn 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 2557.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Church (0.1 km), Mcquillan's castle. motte and bailey (0.5 km), Megalithic tomb (2.3 km).
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