What is recorded here

DUNINENY CASTLE in Town Parks Ballycastle, County Antrim, Ireland, stands as a scheduled castle spanning PREHISTORIC, LATE-MED and POST-MED periods. Its stones have watched the coast through centuries of change, perhaps guiding fishermen, hiding lovers or marking a boundary no longer drawn on modern maps. The castle remains a rare living record of human patience, waiting for people to remember what it held before forgetting began.

The official Northern Ireland record identifies this as DUNINENY CASTLE. Recorded period: POST-MED; LATE-MED; PREHISTORIC. Recorded protection: Scheduled. The official map point was placed at the centre of the recorded archaeological site from the source map reference.

Dunineny Castle is a 16th-century tower house built by the MacQuillan family, a prominent Gaelic clan in the Ballycastle area. It is important as a well-preserved example of early modern defensive architecture in Northern Ireland and reflects the region's historical Gaelic heritage.

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