What is recorded here
Spur Royal Castle in Castlehill Demesne, County Tyrone, Ireland, is a post-medieval castle and bawn. No further factual details are provided.
The official Northern Ireland record identifies this as CASTLE & BAWN: SPUR ROYAL CASTLE. Recorded period: POST-MED. The official map point was placed at the centre of the recorded archaeological site from the source map reference.
Spur Royal Castle was built in the late 16th century by Sir Henry Bagenal, a prominent English military commander, during the Tudor conquest of Ireland. It is remembered as a key defensive structure in the Elizabethan campaign to subdue Ulster and suppress Gaelic lordships.
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- What survives
- Recorded monument
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