TOWER-HOUSE AND BAWN: MAHEE ISLAND in Mahee Island — Report the wrong picture

What is recorded here

Mahee Island in County Down holds a post-medieval tower-house and bawn, still standing under State Care and Scheduled protection. The stone walls likely guarded a small domestic world where firelight moved through narrow rooms while the sea watched patiently beyond the rampart. A tower-house suggests pride, defensiveness and everyday life tangled together, perhaps belonging to people who valued visibility as much as safety.

The official Northern Ireland record identifies this as TOWER-HOUSE AND BAWN: MAHEE ISLAND. Recorded period: POST-MED. Recorded protection: State Care and Scheduled. The official map point was placed at the centre of the recorded archaeological site from the source map reference.

Built in the post-medieval period, likely by a local Gaelic family for defensive purposes, the tower-house and bawn on Mahee Island are important as a rare surviving example of early Irish domestic architecture in a remote island setting.

The monument record does not grant public access. Check the route and ask the landowner before entering private land.