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Castles in County Armagh

8 castles, from Norman keeps to the tower houses that Gaelic and Anglo-Irish families raised in their hundreds — and the ones that are now four walls and a jackdaw.

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The castles

Clare Castle, County Armagh

Plantation 54.334, -6.439 Wikipedia ↗ Show on a map ↗

Clare Castle is a ruined tower situated near the village of Clare in County Armagh, Northern Ireland. It traces its origins back to the early 17th century, coinciding with the Ulster Plantation. As of the 21st century, the structure is a ruin.

Creevekeeran Castle

Creevekeeran Castle is a castle in County Armagh, Northern Ireland. It stands on a rocky outcrop but only the west wall, three stories high, remains. The castle is a Scheduled Historic Monument sited in the townland of Creevekeeran, in the Armagh City, Banbridge and Craigavon Borough Council area, at grid ref: H7847 3710.

Drumbanagher House

Castle house 54.267, -6.383 Wikipedia ↗ Show on a map ↗

Drumbanagher House (also known as Drumbanagher Castle and Closes Castle), near Poyntzpass, County Armagh, was a large country house in Northern Ireland designed for Maxwell Close by William Notman, working under William Playfair in 1829, being "one of his grandest country houses." Following occupation by the American and British armies…

Gosford Castle, County Armagh
Photograph: Counter-revolutionary (talk) · Public domain · Wikimedia Commons

Gosford Castle

Norman 54.311, -6.519 Wikipedia ↗ Show on a map ↗

Gosford Castle is a 19th-century country house situated in Gosford, a townland of Markethill, County Armagh, Northern Ireland. It was built for Archibald Acheson, 2nd Earl of Gosford, and designed in the Norman revival style by London architect Thomas Hopper. It is a Grade A listed building, and is said to be Ulster's largest.

Killeavy Castle

Killeavy Castle is a Grade A listed 19th-century castle in County Armagh, Northern Ireland. It was built for the Foxall family between 1810 and 1820 and was later designed to resemble Gosford Castle in Markethill, also in County Armagh.

Moyry Castle

Moyry Castle (from the Irish Maġ Rí or "plain of the king") is a small 17th century castle in County Armagh, Northern Ireland. It was built during the latter stages of the Nine Years' War in June 1601 by Lord Mountjoy to help secure Moyry Pass and the Gap of the North.

Tandragee Castle, County Armagh
Photograph: HENRY CLARK · CC BY-SA 2.0 · Wikimedia Commons

Tandragee Castle

The current Tandragee Castle, Tandragee, County Armagh, Northern Ireland, was rebuilt in 1837 by George Montagu, 6th Duke of Manchester as the family's Irish home. The 6th Duke of Manchester acquired the estate through his marriage to Millicent Sparrow (1798–1848).

Descriptions are Wikipedia's own opening lines, used under CC BY-SA 4.0 with a link to each article; the list and the coordinates come from the same place. Nothing here is a guide to access — many of these are private homes or stand in private fields.

Older than the castles

What stood in Armagh before anybody thought of building a keep.

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