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Margaret's Castle is a late medieval tower-house located in County Down, Northern Ireland. The structure represents a characteristic form of fortified domestic architecture that emerged in Ireland during the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, when landholding families constructed compact, defensible towers as both residences and symbols of territorial control. Tower-houses of this period typically comprised a rectangular or square stone keep of three to four storeys, designed to provide secure accommodation and refuge during periods of unrest. The monument survives as an important example of late medieval fortification practices in Ulster and contributes to the archaeological record of domestic architecture and settlement patterns during the transition from medieval to early modern Ireland.
Margaret's castle. tower-house is a scheduled monument protected by Department for Communities NI under reference 8573. View the official record →
Margaret's Castle is a late medieval tower-house located in County Down, Northern Ireland. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by DfC Northern Ireland (NISMR) under reference 8573.
Margaret's castle. tower-house dates from the late-med period, and is classified as a fortification. It is one of over 32,000 scheduled monuments protected across the UK.
Margaret's castle. tower-house 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 8573.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Newark & horn castle, adrglass castle. tower-house, merchants stores & c18th castle (0.1 km), Souterrain (1.1 km), Coney island pier. coney island pier, part of killough harbour (1.9 km).
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