TOWER-HOUSE; MERCHANTS STORES; C18th CASTLE: HORN CASTLE or NEWARK or ARDGLASS CASTLE in Ardglass — Report the wrong picture

What is recorded here

Ardglass castle wears three names like a man changing coats: Horn, Newark, Ardglass. Tower-house bones from the late medieval period still stand beside merchants’ stores and an eighteenth-century castle, all locked together in one scheduled site on the County Down coast. Trade and defence shared the same stones, which means the place was never purely proud or purely practical. It was both, arguing with itself across centuries.

The official Northern Ireland record identifies this as TOWER-HOUSE; MERCHANTS STORES; C18th CASTLE: HORN CASTLE or NEWARK or ARDGLASS CASTLE. Recorded period: LATE-MED; C15TH; C18TH. Recorded protection: Scheduled. The official map point was placed at the centre of the recorded archaeological site from the source map reference.

Horn Castle in Ardglass was built in the late 15th century by the MacDonnell family, Gaelic lords of Antrim, and later held by English settlers during the 17th century. It is important as a surviving example of early medieval coastal defense and colonial architecture in Northern Ireland.

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