BAWN: BALLYDUGAN BAWN in Ballydugan — Report the wrong picture

What is recorded here

Ballydugan BAWN stands in County Down as a scheduled post-medieval earthwork, its buried shape waiting beneath grass and memory. The official record preserves the name and place while human life fades from the story. A person may have stood there in the seventeenth century, watching rain strike the soil or children run around the ridge. The bawn still holds that shape, unchanged when imagination leaves it alone.

The official Northern Ireland record identifies this as BAWN: BALLYDUGAN BAWN. Recorded period: C17TH; POST-MED. Recorded protection: Scheduled. The official map point was placed at the centre of the recorded archaeological site from the source map reference.

Ballydugan Bawn was likely built in the 17th century by a local Gaelic or Anglo-Irish landholding family as a defensive structure during the post-medieval period. It is important as a scheduled archaeological site, reflecting the historical landscape and defensive architecture of Northern Ireland.

The monument record does not grant public access. Check the route and ask the landowner before entering private land.