PLANTATION CASTLE & BAWN on site of RATH: BELLAGHY BAWN in Old Town Deer Park — Report the wrong picture

What is recorded here

Bellaghy Bawn stands inside Old Town Deer Park, where a planting castle and bawn were built upon an older rath. The layering suggests people kept returning to the same ground, shaping it again and again.

The official Northern Ireland record identifies this as PLANTATION CASTLE & BAWN on site of RATH: BELLAGHY BAWN. Recorded period: POST-MED; E.CHRIST.. Recorded protection: State Care. The official map point was placed at the centre of the recorded archaeological site from the source map reference.

Built during the 17th-century Plantation period, Bellaghy Bawn was constructed by English or Scottish settlers as part of the colonial effort to establish control in Ulster. It is remembered for its historical association with the post-medieval reconfiguration of land and power in Northern Ireland.

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