TOWER-HOUSE & C13th COFFIN LID: KILCLIEF CASTLE in Kilclief — Report the wrong picture

What is recorded here

Kilclief Castle stands in County Down as a medieval tower-house preserving a thirteenth-century coffin lid, suggesting death and domestic life shared one stone address. The structure may have served a local family, protected a boundary, or stored what ownership required, while the coffin lid marked someone important enough to shape the building's memory. Its survival connects medieval practicality to modern wonder, inviting imagination rather than invented certainty.

The official Northern Ireland record identifies this as TOWER-HOUSE & C13th COFFIN LID: KILCLIEF CASTLE. Recorded period: MEDIEVAL. Recorded protection: State Care. The official map point was placed at the centre of the recorded archaeological site from the source map reference.

Kilclief Castle is a medieval tower-house believed to have been built in the 13th or 14th century, likely by a local Gaelic lord or Anglo-Norman settler. It is remembered for its historical significance as a defensive structure in the medieval landscape of what is now Northern Ireland.

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