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Old Castle House is a post-medieval domestic building located in Moyle, Northern Ireland. The house stands on bedrock of the Cross Slieve Group, a formation of interbedded conglomerate and sandstone dating to the Emsian period. This geological foundation has shaped the building's immediate landscape and the character of its setting in the Northern Irish countryside.
The structure represents the domestic architecture of the post-medieval period, a time when rural housing in Ulster underwent significant development. Its location in Moyle places it within a region rich in vernacular building traditions, where stone from the local geology would have been readily available for construction.
The monument is protected by the Historic Environment Division under reference 1287, reflecting its importance to the archaeological and architectural heritage of County Antrim. Old Castle House contributes to our understanding of domestic life and building practices in early modern Northern Ireland, preserving material evidence of the period's domestic arrangements and construction methods.
Old castle. house is a scheduled monument protected by Department for Communities NI under reference 1287. View the official record →
Old Castle House is a post-medieval domestic building located in Moyle, Northern Ireland. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by DfC Northern Ireland (NISMR) under reference 1287.
Old castle. house dates from the post-med period, and is classified as a house. It is one of over 32,000 scheduled monuments protected across the UK.
Old castle. 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 1287.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Fundamental bench mark (1.9 km), Court mcmartin. castle (1.9 km), Mound, possibly barrow (2.2 km).
This page is just one thread. A full Aubrey report pulls together 14 strands of Old castle. house's history, each drawn from the record and mapped to the exact spot:
Every location is different. Not every section appears for every place, only what the historical record actually holds turns up in a report.
Old castle. house stands on Cross Slieve Group, bedrock that formed in the Emsian. The rock here is conglomerate and [subequal/subordinate] sandstone, interbedded.