TOWER-HOUSE; BAWN and 2 C13th COFFIN LIDS: WALSHESTOWN CASTLE in Walshestown — Report the wrong picture

What is recorded here

Walshestown Castle in County Down preserves a medieval tower-house, bawn and two thirteenth-century coffin lids. Its stones may have defended a home, stored grain or marked local authority, while the lids suggest death and burial beside domestic life. The castle is a scheduled site, and its surviving parts still point to a inhabited medieval landscape.

The official Northern Ireland record identifies this as TOWER-HOUSE; BAWN and 2 C13th COFFIN LIDS: WALSHESTOWN CASTLE. Recorded period: MEDIEVAL; LATE-MED. Recorded protection: Scheduled. The official map point was placed at the centre of the recorded archaeological site from the source map reference.

Walshestown Castle, a medieval tower-house with a bawn, was likely built in the 13th or 14th century by a local Gaelic or Anglo-Norman lord for defensive purposes during the period of English expansion in Ireland. It is remembered for its archaeological significance, including the discovery of two 13th-century coffin lids, and is protected as a scheduled monument.

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