TOWER-HOUSE & BAWN: TOOME CASTLE in Toome — Report the wrong picture

What is recorded here

Toome Castle is a late-medieval tower house and bawn in County Antrim, Ireland, still standing as a scheduled archaeological site. Its stones mark a time when local power needed watching, defending and remembering through building rather than promise. The castle may have felt less like a home than a warning, tall and closed against the ordinary world.

The official Northern Ireland record identifies this as TOWER-HOUSE & BAWN: TOOME CASTLE. Recorded period: LATE-MED. Recorded protection: Scheduled. The official map point was placed at the centre of the recorded archaeological site from the source map reference.

Toome Castle was built by the MacAodhagáin (O'Hagan) family in the late medieval period, likely during the 15th or 16th century. It is remembered as an important stronghold in the historic kingdom of Tír Eoghain (now part of County Tyrone, Northern Ireland), reflecting the region's Gaelic heritage and the strategic significance of such tower houses during the late medieval era.

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