PLANTATION HOUSE & BAWN & LATER HOUSE: MANOR WATERHOUSE in Manor Water House — Report the wrong picture

What is recorded here

Manor Water House began as a Plantation house and bawn in County Fermanagh during the seventeenth century, when new settlers built defensible homes beside water. The bawn would have ringed the house like a stone collar, keeping livestock, carts and frightened people inside while the world beyond remained hostile. Later residence turned the defensive shape into an ordinary home, softening the angle of its walls but never erasing the purpose that formed them.

The official Northern Ireland record identifies this as PLANTATION HOUSE & BAWN & LATER HOUSE: MANOR WATERHOUSE. Recorded period: POST-MED; C17TH. The official map point was placed at the centre of the recorded archaeological site from the source map reference.

Manor Water House was built during the 17th century as part of the English plantation in Northern Ireland, likely by an English or Scottish settler. It is remembered as a surviving example of early colonial architecture and landholding in the region.

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