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DUNSEVERICK CASTLE in Feigh Alias Dunseverick

DUNSEVERICK CASTLE
DUNSEVERICK CASTLE in Feigh Alias Dunseverick
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Dunseverick Castle rose along the northern coast during the fourteenth through seventeenth centuries, marking a volatile border where stone and sea collided. Its scheduled ruins still hold the shape of that tension, inviting imagination about the people who watched storms break against ancient walls. The castle does not need invention to feel alive because it already belongs to a long human story written in rock and salt air.
The official Northern Ireland record identifies this as DUNSEVERICK CASTLE. Recorded period: C13TH; C15TH; C16TH; C17TH; C14TH. Recorded protection: Scheduled. The official map point was placed at the centre of the recorded archaeological site from the source map reference.
Dunseverick Castle was built by the MacQuillan clan in the 13th century and later held by the McKenzies and then the MacDonnells in the 16th and 17th centuries. It is important as a significant medieval stronghold on the Antrim coast and as an example of early Irish coastal defences.

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Photo: Colin Park · CC BY-SA 2.0