
What is recorded here
Moyry Castle is recorded as a castle in County Armagh. Its open map record supplies this location and any linked names or public references.
Moyry Castle was built in the late 16th century by the MacDermotts of Moyry, a Gaelic Irish family, during the Tudor period of English expansion in Ireland. It is remembered as a symbol of local resistance and as an example of a typical Irish tower house during the late medieval period.
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Photo: Ron Murray · CC BY-SA 2.0