TOWER-HOUSE: BAGENAL'S CASTLE in Newry — Report the wrong picture

What is recorded here

Bagenal's Castle in Newry, County Down, rises as a scheduled tower-house from the fifteenth or sixteenth century, marking the area where the Bagenal name still holds weight. Stone walls that once watched a busy border town may have hidden chambers, guarded doors and ordinary lives now lost to time. The castle still stands as a rare surviving frame for that forgotten activity.

The official Northern Ireland record identifies this as TOWER-HOUSE: BAGENAL'S CASTLE. Recorded period: C16TH; C15TH. Recorded protection: Scheduled. The official map point was placed at the centre of the recorded archaeological site from the source map reference.

Built by the Bagenal family in the 16th century, Bagenal's Castle in Newry is remembered as a significant example of a tower-house and as the ancestral seat of a prominent Anglo-Irish family in Ulster. It is important for its historical association with the Nine Years' War and its role in the colonial history of Ireland.

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