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Trillick Castle is a seventeenth-century defended house with bawn located near Omagh in County Tyrone. The bawn, a walled courtyard that represents the post-medieval response to Irish conditions, would have enclosed domestic and agricultural buildings within a protective perimeter of stone or clay-built walls. This form of fortification, combining English architectural conventions with practical defence, became widespread across Ulster during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries as settlers and established landowners sought security in an unsettled period.
The castle stands on bedrock of the Kilskeery Group, a geological formation comprising sandstone, mudstone, siltstone and conglomerate deposited during the Chesterian period. The local stone would have provided ready material for construction, shaping both the castle's walls and its defensive bawn.
The monument is protected by the Historic Environment Division as a scheduled historic monument under reference 15385, recognising its significance as an example of post-medieval fortified settlement in Ulster. Despite the passage of four centuries, such defended houses remain important witnesses to patterns of habitation and defence in early modern Ireland.
Trillick castle. c17th defended house & bawn is a scheduled monument protected by Department for Communities NI under reference 15385. View the official record →
Trillick Castle is a seventeenth-century defended house with bawn located near Omagh in County Tyrone. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by DfC Northern Ireland (NISMR) under reference 15385.
Trillick castle. c17th defended 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.
Trillick castle. c17th defended 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 15385.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Crockroe. large hilltop enclosure (4.3 km), Kilknock old burial ground. wedge tomb (5 km), Three standing stones (5.1 km).
This page is just one thread. A full Aubrey report pulls together 14 strands of Trillick castle. c17th defended house & bawn's history, each drawn from the record and mapped to the exact spot:
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Trillick castle. c17th defended house & bawn stands on Kilskeery Group, bedrock that formed in the Chesterian. The rock here is sandstone, mudstone, siltstone and conglomerate.