C17th DEFENDED HOUSE & BAWN: TRILLICK CASTLE in Castlemervyn Demesne — Report the wrong picture

What is recorded here

Trillick Castle stood as a seventeenth-century defended house and bawn within Castlemervyn Demesne, County Tyrone. Its walls faced the kind of violence that made defense a daily habit rather than a theory. The stones still belong to the post-medieval world where ownership meant surviving the people who wanted it taken.

The official Northern Ireland record identifies this as C17th DEFENDED HOUSE & BAWN: TRILLICK CASTLE. Recorded period: POST-MED. Recorded protection: Scheduled. The official map point was placed at the centre of the recorded archaeological site from the source map reference.

Trillick Castle, a 17th-century defended house and bawn, was likely built by a local Gaelic or Anglo-Irish landholding family during the post-medieval period, possibly following the Plantation of Ulster. It is remembered as an example of early modern defensive architecture in Northern Ireland and is protected as a scheduled monument.

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