Gosford Castle
Note: a 19th-century country house rather than a true medieval fortification.
3 castles recorded, 3 with a full guide, 0 bookable as castle hotels.
The nearest bookable castle hotel is Castle Leslie Estate in Co. Monaghan.
Note: a 19th-century country house rather than a true medieval fortification.
A small three-storey tower built in June 1601 by Lord Mountjoy to secure the strategically vital Moyry Pass and the 'Gap of the North' during the closing stages of the Nine Years' War, set within a small defensive bawn near the Armagh/Down border..
Originally the stronghold of the Gaelic O'Hanlon clan, the castle became the property of Sir Oliver St John, Lord Deputy of Ireland, during the Plantation of Ulster, and was ruined during the 1641 Irish Rebellion.
Sourced from the National Monuments Service Sites and Monuments Record — ruins, tower houses and earthworks alongside the famous names.