What is recorded here

Monea Castle in Castletown Monea stands as a seventeenth-century fortress and bawn, its stones marked by post-medieval building and preserved under State Care. The structure embodies the defensive ambitions of its era, rising from the Fermanagh landscape with the quiet authority of scheduled heritage. Whatever hands shaped its walls or witnessed its conflicts, the castle remains a tangible fragment of that turbulent period, waiting for imagination to complete its human story.

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

Monea Castle was built in the 17th century by the MacCárthaigh (MacCarthy) family, an Irish Gaelic dynasty. It is remembered as a significant example of early modern Irish domestic architecture and is protected as a scheduled monument in Northern Ireland.

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