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The Court Plantation House and Bawn is a post-medieval fortification located in Lisburn, County Antrim. The bawn—a defensive wall enclosing the plantation settlement—represents a distinctive form of settler protection that emerged during the English and Scottish colonisation of Ulster in the early seventeenth century. Such fortifications combined practical defence against local resistance with the symbolic assertion of colonial authority over the landscape.
The site occupies bedrock of the Gala Group, sedimentary wacke deposits formed during the Telychian period of the Silurian, which provides the underlying geology of much of the Lisburn area. This ancient foundation supported the plantation-era settlement that developed above it, with the bawn's defensive earthworks or masonry walls arranged to protect both the plantation house and its surrounding demesne.
The monument is protected by the Historic Environment Division under reference number 6698, reflecting its significance as evidence of the material transformation of Ulster during the early modern plantation period. The survival of structural remains or earthwork traces at this location contributes to understanding how colonising communities in seventeenth-century Ireland defended their settlements and organised their territorial holdings.
The court. plantation house & bawn is a scheduled monument protected by Department for Communities NI under reference 6698. View the official record →
The Court Plantation House and Bawn is a post-medieval fortification located in Lisburn, County Antrim. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by DfC Northern Ireland (NISMR) under reference 6698.
The court. plantation 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.
The court. plantation 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 6698.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Todd's grove. bivallate rath (3.5 km), Ballintine rath. rath (3.8 km), Raised rath (4.1 km).
This page is just one thread. A full Aubrey report pulls together 14 strands of The court. plantation house & bawn'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.
The court. plantation house & bawn stands on Gala Group, bedrock that formed in the Telychian. The rock here is wacke.