| Castle Name | Condition | Description | Early Founder(s) -- Time Period(s) Contructed | Parish/Townland | Ord | Residency | Links |
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| Aghadowey Castle | None | Bawn and Tower-House - "enclosed by a battlemented wall...square with a turret at each angle". | Aghadowey, Aghadowey | C85802095 | NISMR database | ||
| Annaghmore Castle | None | Castle? | ????
-- Residence of -- the Gebseys 1641 -- Destroyed and burned by -- British Army |
Magherafelt, Annaghmore | H92979131 | NISMR database | |
| Ardmore Castle | None | Castle? - The ruins were 20ft long x 32 ft broad, with a well in the cellar. | ???? -- Residence of -- the O'Kahans | Balteagh, Ardmore | C70512098 | NISMR database | |
| Ballindreen Scotch Castle | None | Castle? - "...it stood on an eminence...the house was spacious & stood 1-storey, the entire roof was lined beneath the thatch with oak basket work, the ground floor of the parlour was laid with flat whinstone, as was a large hall that ran through the entire house..." | ????
-- Residence of -- McKanny Family 1745 -- Razed to the ground |
Ballyrashane, Ballindreen Scotch | C90093066 | NISMR database | |
| Ballyaghran Castle | Ruins | http://www.from-ireland.net/lewis/derry/derrycounty.htm | |||||
| BallyCastle ("Castle of the Town") | Ruins | http://www.from-ireland.net/lewis/derry/aghanloo.htm | |||||
| Ballyclose Castle (Newtown-Limavady Castle, Drumachose Castle, O'Cahan's castle) | None | Castle and Bawn | ????
-- Controlled by -- the O'Cahan's 1820s -- Destroyed by -- |
Tamlaght Finlagan or Drumachose, Deer Park | C67722039 | http://www.from-ireland.net/lewis/derry/newtownlim.htm http://www.from-ireland.net/lewis/derry/drumachose.htm http://www.theoriginofdannyboy.com/ NISMR database |
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| Ballymoghan Beg Castle | None | Plantation Castle | Magherafelt,Ballymoghan Beg | H8887 | NISMR database | ||
| BallyNeill Castle | None | Castle? - In building the modern farm house an underground room was found with a large fire place with ashes still in it. | ???? -- Built by -- Mr Nieves | Artrea, Ballyneill More | H92858533 | NISMR database | |
| Ballyreagh Castle ("the Royal Castle", Dunfert Castle) | Ruins | Castle? - The scant remains of this castle consists of one small mortar & basalt boulder wall - part of the E-W wall which once cut off the landward approach, i.e. the S wall of the castle. The mortar has flint & pebble inclusions. The W edge of the promontory shows a slight lip 0.6m high, which could reflect a buried wall, but this is doubtful. The wall remnant is at most 0.9m high & from the wall to the edge of the promontory is 20m. | Ballywillin, Ballyreagh, Portrush | C84603985 | http://www.from-ireland.net/lewis/ant/bwillin.htm http://www.booksulster.com/library/sketches/portrush.php NISMR database |
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| Ballyreagh Castle ("the Royal Castle") | Ruins | http://www.from-ireland.net/lewis/ant/bwillin.htm http://www.from-ireland.net/lewis/derry/derrycounty.htm |
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| Ballyronan Castle | Ruins | http://www.from-ireland.net/lewis/t/bderry.htm | |||||
| Bellaghy Bawn/Castle | Full* | Plantation Castle and Bawn - "...a bawn of brick & lime, 100ft square, with 2 round flankers & a good rampart ... also within the bawn 2 good houses one opposite to the other." The accompanying drawing shows 2 large round towers & one small,straight-sided one, 2 houses & a gateway. The site survives today as 3 bawn walls, one round tower & the rampart. Excavation located the house & the 2nd round tower. The house had 2 rooms, separated by a large fireplace. It also showed that the bawn wall was built over the ditch of a rath, causing to lean out markedly. It has been shored up & the C18th house within the bawn is now a visitors centre. | 1619
-- Built by -- Baptist Jones 1641 -- Surrendered to -- Irish |
Ballyscullion, Old Town Deer Park, Bellaghy | H95349634 | State Care | http://www.from-ireland.net/lewis/ant/bscullionparish.htm http://www.from-ireland.net/lewis/derry/bellaghy.htm http://www.from-ireland.net/lewis/derry/derrycounty.htm http://www.bbc.co.uk/northernireland/yourplaceandmine/londonderry/A803459.shtml NISMR database |
| Brackfield Bawn | Ruins | Skinners Co. (c1615) | http://www.derryvisitor.com/derry/faq/index.asp?menuid=60 http://www.woodland-trust.org.uk/woydni/sitelocationsmoreni/oakswood.htm |
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| Castle Dawson (First) | None | http://www.from-ireland.net/lewis/derry/cdawson.htm http://www.from-ireland.net/lewis/ant/bscullionparish.htm |
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| Castle Dawson (Second) | Ruins | http://www.from-ireland.net/lewis/derry/cdawson.htm http://www.from-ireland.net/lewis/ant/bscullionparish.htm |
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| Castle of Anagh | None | Tower-House | c12th
-- Built by -- the O'Kanes c16th -- Removed and Leveled |
Clondermot, Templetown | C47371942 | NISMR database | |
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| Castlelecky | http://www.from-ireland.net/lewis/derry/tamlaghtard.htm | ||||||
| Castleroe | None | Tower-House and Bawn - a stretch of wall of stone & mortar, with stray stones & loose brick around it, with possibly 2 corners of the bawn. The C17th Raven maps show a Tower House & Bawn on the site. | Macosquin, Castleroe, Coleraine | C86042999 | http://www.from-ireland.net/lewis/derry/coleraine.htm http://www.from-ireland.net/lewis/derry/macosquin.htm http://www.york.ac.uk/depts/arch/landscapes/ukpg/sites/castlero.htm NISMR database |
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| Coleraine Castle | None | Castle? - "manor house is modern & stands on the site of the castle, | 1248 -- Built by -- | Coleraine, Coleraine | C84433250 | NISMR database | |
| Culmore Castle (Culmore Fort, Culmore Point) | Ruins | A "reconstructed" plantation fort. | http://dohertyclann.homestead.com/red.html http://web.ukonline.co.uk/nigel.bacon/castles/data/ireland/c/culmore.htm http://irishsociety.infm.ulst.ac.uk/begins.htm |
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| Derryard Castle (the Turret or Round House) | None | Castle - The castle had 3 orchards, pleasure gardens, ballrooms & "apartments for the accomodation of different amusements". | c17th -- Built by -- Captain Arthur Carey | Bovevagh, Derryard | C6811 | NISMR database | |
| Doherty Tower (Aileagh, Elagh, Aileach Castle) | Ruins | Castle and Earthworks - There is evidence remaining of a curtain wall in at least 2 places W of the existing tower. This tower retains traces of a portcullis slot & is likely to be the surviving portion of a double-towered gateway. There are also traces of a corner tower in the SW of the outcrop on which the castle stood. The various contemporary reports suggest the castle consisted of a lofty square keep with semi-circular towers projecting from 2 of the angles. | c14th
-- Built by -- ???? -- Residence of -- O'Dogherty 1600 -- Demolished by -- the English 1608 -- Reclamed by -- O'Dogherys ???? -- Lost to -- Chichester 1621 -- Leased to -- 1665 -- Fallen into disrepair |
Templemore, Elagh More | C41582165 | http://www.from-ireland.net/lewis/derry/templemore.htm http://www.inishowenheritage.com/inishowen/castles/elagh.php NISMR database |
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| Dromore Castle (Ward Knowe Castle) | None | Castle | Kildollagh, Fish Loughan | C87662895 | NISMR database | ||
| Dungannon Castle | Ruins | http://www.loc.gov/catdir/samples/simon031/99058497.html | |||||
| Dungiven Castle | Full* | Castle | 1839
-- ReBuilt by -- O'Kane (O'Cahan), Skinner's Co, Doddington (c1600) |
Dungiven, Dungiven | C69260908 | http://www.from-ireland.net/lewis/derry/dungiven.htm http://www.dungivencastle.com/index.htm NISMR database |
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| Dungiven Castle (old) | None | Castle | c17th -- Built by | Dungiven, Dungiven | C69260908 | http://www.from-ireland.net/lewis/derry/dungiven.htm http://www.dungivencastle.com/index.htm NISMR database |
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| Faughanvale Castle | None | http://www.from-ireland.net/lewis/derry/faughanvale.htm http://www.eglinton.demon.co.uk/MainFrames.htm |
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| Glenleary Castle | None | Castle? | 1641 -- Destroyed by -- Irish | Macosquin, Glenleary | C854277 | NISMR database | |
| Killane Castle | None | Castle | ???? -- Residence of -- the O'Cahans | Drumachose, Killane, Limavady | C68122390 | NISMR database | |
| Killoween Castle (Ancient Castle formerly at Jackson Hall) | None | http://www.from-ireland.net/lewis/derry/killowen.htm http://www.from-ireland.net/lewis/derry/coleraine.htm |
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| Knockbane Castle ("Seat of Hugh O'Neill") | None | Castle? | ???? -- Residence of -- Hugh O'Niell | Tamlaght O'Crilly, Eden | C9103 | NISMR database | |
| Lewis Castle | None | Castle? | ????
-- Built by -- Lewis 1641 -- Castle attacked and owner killed by -- Local residence |
Cumber Lower, Oghill | C51061475 | NISMR database | |
| linen-hall Castle | Ruins | http://www.from-ireland.net/lewis/derry/moneymore.htm | |||||
| Lissan Castle (Lisane Castle) | http://www.from-ireland.net/lewis/t/lissan.htm | ||||||
| Loughans Castle (castle of McQuillan) | Ruins | Castle? | ????
-- Built by -- the McQuillans 1544 -- Taken by -- the O'Donnells |
Kildollagh, Loughlin Island | C87782876 | http://www.from-ireland.net/lewis/derry/kildollagh.htm http://www.from-ireland.net/lewis/derry/agherton.htm NISMR database |
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| Magherafelt Castle | None | Plantation Castle and Bawn - "In lowering the Diamond...there was a large portion of the cellar walls of Magherafelt ancient castle raised. It stood S of the market house. The site is partly occupied by the street & partly by a range of dwelling houses." The bawn had 2 large square flankers, one irregularly shaped 4-sided flankers at the front & a projecting entrance gate. | Magherafelt, Town Parks Mangherafelt | H89699059 | NISMR database | ||
| Magilligan Strand | A Martello tower. | http://web.ukonline.co.uk/nigel.bacon/castles/data/ireland/m/magilligan.htm | |||||
| Moneymore Castle | Ruins | http://www.from-ireland.net/lewis/derry/moneymore.htm | |||||
| Mountsandel Castle | A motte castle near the River Bann, possibly 12th century. | C 8530 | http://web.ukonline.co.uk/nigel.bacon/castles/data/ireland/m/mountsandel.htm | ||||
| Movanagher Bawn/Castle | Ruins | Plantation Castle and Bawn - a manor house, 2 stories high, 42ft x 26ft, with 4 flankers enclosed by bawn wall 120ft square, 9ft high & 3ft thick with 3 flankers 16ft high. The bawn now encloses an area used as a farmyard. The wall survives at W, S & E - where there is a ruined flanker, with a collapsed roof. One part of the N wall survives within the currently occupied farmhouse. | Kilrea, Movanagher | C92031589 | http://www.from-ireland.net/lewis/derry/kilrea.htm http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/war/plantation/transcripts/lc01_t01.shtml NISMR database |
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| Muff Castle | None | http://www.from-ireland.net/lewis/derry/muff.htm http://members.platinum.ca/julee/web/pafweb/pafn10.htm |
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| O'Dohery's Castle (The Magazine) | None | Tower-House | Templmore, Londonderry, Derry | C43501685 | NISMR database | ||
| O'Hara Castle (Port Stewart Castle, Portstewart Castle) | http://www.from-ireland.net/lewis/derry/agherton.htm http://www.from-ireland.net/lewis/derry/portstewart.htm |
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| O'Kane Castle | None | Castle? - "the remains of an old building said to be a castle...the cellar with the steps leading down into it was destroyed c.20 years ago". | ???? -- Residence of -- O'Kane | Magilligan, Duncrun | C68523252 | NISMR database | |
| Revellagh Castle | Ruins | http://www.from-ireland.net/lewis/ant/brashane.htm | |||||
| Revellagh Fort | Ruins | http://www.from-ireland.net/lewis/ant/brashane.htm | |||||
| Rowley's Castle | None | Castle? | Kilcronaghan, Calmore | H82939599 | NISMR database | ||
| Salterstown Castle | Ruins | Plantation Castle and Bawn - The map shows a bawn with 2 circular flankers at NW & SE & a 2 storey house along the SW wall. The road from the bawn still follows the same line & excavations | 1613
-- Land granted to -- Saters Co. 1641 -- Captured and destroyed by -- Phelim O'Neill 1740s -- Owned by -- McMaster family |
Ballinderry, Ballymultrea | H95188236 | http://www.from-ireland.net/lewis/t/bderry.htm http://www.from-ireland.net/lewis/derry/ballyronan.htm http://web.ukonline.co.uk/nigel.bacon/castles/data/ireland/s/salterstown.htm NISMR database |
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| Somerset Castle (The Red Castle) | None | Castle? - "There was a castle of large size on the site where Somerset House now stands...it was the residence of the George family... This castle was built of bricks & the outside of the walls painted red...there was a balcony round the roof of the castle of so large dimensions that 8 persons could walk abreast...After the demise of Squire George the castle was neglected & became a dilapidated pile. | ???? -- Residence of -- The George Family | Macosquin, Somerset, Coleraine | C84753080 | NISMR database | |
| Stormont Castle | Full | Castle - Gothic? | Cleland? | http://www.nics.gov.uk/castle/castle.htm | |||
| Tamlaghtard Castle (Magilligan Castle) | None | http://www.from-ireland.net/lewis/derry/tamlaghtard.htm | |||||
| Walworth castle (Ballykelly Castle) | Ruins | Fishmonger's Co. (c1615) | http://www.from-ireland.net/lewis/derry/tamlaghtfinlagan.htm http://www.from-ireland.net/lewis/derry/ballykelly.htm |
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