What is recorded here

Dobbs Castle stands in County Antrim as a post-medieval scheduled ruin, its stones marked by official records but its chambers emptied of every living witness. The name flips between Dobbs and Dabbs like a coin tossed into dark water, preserving the uncertainty instead of solving it. Whatever rooms once held heat, argument or birth, they have given that up to the rain.

The official Northern Ireland record identifies this as CASTLE: CASTLE DOBBS or DABBS 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.

Castle Dobbs or Dabbs Castle was built in the late 16th or early 17th century by the Dobbs or Dabbs family, a prominent local Gaelic or Anglo-Irish clan in the area now known as Dobbsland. It is important as a Scheduled Ancient Monument, reflecting its historical and archaeological significance in the post-medieval landscape of Northern Ireland.

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