What is recorded here
Castleskreen Tower House stands in County Down as a rare survival where an ancient rath meets a late-medieval tower, binding two eras into one stone frame. The tower likely rose beside or through the older earthwork, forcing its builders to acknowledge a place already shaped by time. Its scheduled status protects that unusual junction, preserving both the human ambition to dominate the land and the older patience of the rath beneath it.
The official Northern Ireland record identifies this as RATH & TOWER-HOUSE: CASTLESKREEN TOWER HOUSE. Recorded period: E.CHRIST.; LATE-MED. Recorded protection: Scheduled. The official map point was placed at the centre of the recorded archaeological site from the source map reference.
The monument record does not grant public access. Check the route and ask the landowner before entering private land.
- What survives
- Recorded monument
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