What is recorded here

Movanagher Castle stands in County Derry as a post-medieval plantation castle, bawn and village site, still marked as a scheduled archaeological place. It is the kind of position where ownership, defence and daily life stopped being separate things. A castle needed a bawn, a bawn needed people, and people needed a reason to remain when danger was possible. That is why the site still matters: it preserves the shape of a small violent world making itself ordinary.

The official Northern Ireland record identifies this as PLANTATION CASTLE; BAWN; VILLAGE SITE: MOVANAGHER 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.

Built during the 17th century as part of the English Plantation of Ulster, Movanagher Castle was held by settlers under the Crown's colonial expansion. It is remembered as a symbol of post-medieval land redistribution and the establishment of Protestant influence in the region.

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