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Toome Castle is a late medieval tower-house and bawn situated in County Antrim, Northern Ireland. The fortification consists of a substantial stone tower enclosed within a defensive bawn wall, representing a characteristic form of aristocratic defence adopted in late medieval Ulster. The tower-house and its associated enclosure date to the later fifteenth or sixteenth century, a period when such structures served as both residential strongholds and symbols of territorial authority for local lords. The site exemplifies the defensive architecture typical of the Irish Pale's borderlands and beyond, where fortified residences provided protection against both external threats and inter-community conflict during a period of considerable political instability in the north of Ireland.
Toome castle. tower-house & bawn is a scheduled monument protected by Department for Communities NI under reference 2940. View the official record →
Toome Castle is a late medieval tower-house and bawn situated in County Antrim, Northern Ireland. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by DfC Northern Ireland (NISMR) under reference 2940.
Toome castle. tower-house & bawn 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.
Toome castle. tower-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 2940.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Fortified house & bawn & site of battle, 1641 (6 km), Standing stone (6.8 km), Shemy's island. crannog (6.9 km).
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