What is recorded here
The official Northern Ireland record identifies this as TOWER-HOUSE: DROMORE CASTLE. Recorded period: POST-MED; C17TH. Recorded protection: Scheduled. The official map point was placed at the centre of the recorded archaeological site from the source map reference.
Dromore Castle is a 17th-century tower-house located in County Down, Northern Ireland, and was likely built by a local Gaelic or Anglo-Irish landholding family during the post-medieval period. It is important as a scheduled historic monument, reflecting the defensive and social architecture of early modern Ulster.
The monument record does not grant public access. Check the route and ask the landowner before entering private land.
- What survives
- Recorded monument
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