| Castle Name | Condition | Description | Early Founder(s) -- Time Period(s) Contructed | Parish/Townland | Ord | Residency | Links |
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| "The Castle" | None | Castle | 1812 -- Leased to -- Patrick McGinnis | Camus, Town Parks of Strabane | H34479774 | NISMR database | |
| Aghantine castle (Aughentaine Castle) | Ruin | Castle - "a large Castle of Lyme & Stone, strong & defencible...about it is a Bawne of lyme & stone, 211 foot long, 112 foot broad & 10 foot high, with 4 Flanckers.. It was 3 storeys high." | <1619
-- Castle Built by -- Sir William Stewart 1641 -- destroyed by -- Sir Phelim O'Nial |
Five Mile town/ Blessingbourn/Mount Stewart | H49855151 | Samuel
Lewis (1837) -- http://www.from-ireland.net/lewis/ant/5miletown.htm NISMR database -- http://www.ehsni.gov.uk/built/mbr/monuments_database/mons.asp |
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| Augher Castle (Spur Royal Castle) | Full* | Castle and Bawn - "a fair Castle of stone & lyme [about 23 foot square & 3 stories high] & a house standing with a Bawne of lyme & stone, 140ft square & 14ft high with 4 flankers". One of the flanking towers still stands, at the edge of sloping ground down to the lake, with hints of the foundations of the bawn wall running away to N (E wall) & W (S wall). There is a doorway in the E wall, opposite to the entrance to the tower within the bawn. | 1610
-- Built by -- Lord Ridgeway 1641 -- Beseiged by -- Sir Phelim O'Niell |
Clogher, Castlehill, augher | H56135381 | http://www.from-ireland.net/lewis/t/clogher.htm http://www.from-ireland.net/lewis/t/augher.htm http://www.burnsmoley.com/pages/area/william.php http://www0.bbc.co.uk/history/timelines/ni/ennis_newt.shtml http://web.ukonline.co.uk/nigel.bacon/castles/data/ireland/a/augher.htm http://homepage.eircom.net/~leeea/EmanuellTyrone.htm NISMR database |
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| Aughintain Castle (Aughentaine Castle) | Ruins | Fortified House and Bawn - "a large Castle of Lyme & Stone, strong & defencible...about it is a Bawne of lyme & stone, 211 foot long, 112 foot broad & 10 foot high, with 4 Flanckers". It was 3 storeys high. Today, only the W gable stands to any height, including a square chimney stack, but little else remains. | c1612
-- Built by -- Sir William O'Neill 1641 -- Destroyed by -- Sir Phelim O'Neill |
Clogher, Aughintain | H49855151 | NISMR
database http://web.ukonline.co.uk/nigel.bacon/castles/data/ireland/a/aughentaine.htm |
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| Ballydonelly castle (Castle Caulfield) | Ruins | House and Bawn - The Caulfield arms appear over the gatehouse, which has murder holes & gun-loops &, with a fragment of bawn-wall, is earlier than the main house. This was undefended, 3 storeys high & originally of half-H plan. | c1282
-- Possible fort of -- O'Donnells 1611-19 -- Built by Sir Toby Caulfield 1641 -- Burnt by -- ???? -- Repaird and Reoccupied by -- Caulfields 1660 -- Vacated by? -- Caulfields |
Donaghmore, lisnamonaghan, Castlecaulfield | H75516259 | http://www.ulsterclans.com/baronies.html http://cloghmore.bravepages.com/tyrone/castlecaulfield.html http://www.cushings.com/roots/donnelly.htm NISMR database http://web.ukonline.co.uk/nigel.bacon/castles/data/ireland/c/castlecaulfield.htm |
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| Ballygawley Castle | None | Castle and Bawn | 1611
-- Grant given to -- William Turvin ???? -- Passed to -- Sir Gerard Lowther |
Errigal Kerroge, Ballygawley | H63245749 | http://www.from-ireland.net/lewis/t/bgawley.htm http://www.from-ireland.net/lewis/t/errigalkerogue.htm http://www.from-ireland.net/lewis/t/countytyrone.htm NISMR database |
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| Ballymenagh Castle | None | Castle | Derryloran, Ballymenagh, Cookstown | H82097915 | NISMR database | ||
| Baronscourt Castle | Plantation Castle - In Medieval times, the tower-house & bawn were built. | Ardstraw, Barons Court | H36468378 | http://www.ulsternet-ni.co.uk/tcon1402/conpages/CNEWS.htm http://www.goireland.com/scripts/low/xq/asp/areaid.3902/areatype.T/cat./SubjectID.219/PremisesID.15027/qx/premises.htm NISMR database |
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| Beltrim Castle | Ruins | Plantation Castle and Bawn - "of lyme & stone, 42ft square 7ft high with noe flankers. There is within the Bawne the foundation of a castle 5ft high, but no gates to the Bawne nor any body dwelling there". | Bodoney Lower, Beltrim | H48878636 | NISMR database | ||
| Benburb Castle (Wingfields Castle) | Full* | Castle and Bawn - The bawn walls enclose an irregular rectangular area, the walls standing to almost full height, plentifully supplied with gun loops. At NW & NE corners are rectangular towers, large, with fire places & more like tall houses than ordinary flankers. A the S end is a circular tower with a stair down to a postern gate at the cliff edge. | ????
-- Posible Site of -- Stronghold of Shane O'Neil C1615 -- Built by -- Sir Richard Wingfield |
Clonfeacle, Benburb | H81475199 | http://www.from-ireland.net/lewis/t/benburb.htm http://www.from-ireland.net/lewis/t/countytyrone.htm http://www.from-ireland.net/lewis/arm/clonfeacle.htm http://cloghmore.bravepages.com/tyrone/benburb.html NISMR database http://web.ukonline.co.uk/nigel.bacon/castles/data/ireland/b/benburb.htm |
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| Castle Curlews | Plantation Castle - It is 2 storeys high, with a single chamber on each floor. On 3 sides there are external walls, each of which contained a bay window unit; on the W is an internal cross wall beyond which the building is lost beneath a mound of stone & mortar debris. The basement level has gun-loops. | ???? -- Built by -- Sir John Davies | Longfield West, Kirlish | H31967580 | NISMR database | ||
| Castle Derg (Castlesessagh Bawn) | Ruins | Castle? - "a bawne of stone & lyme, not finished, being 100ft long, 80ft broad & 5ft high, with 3 open Flankers of the same height..". The N wall & 2 square corner turrets survive in ruined state - the other walls survive only as foundations. Excavations revealed at least 4 phases of activity on the site, from a pre-C15th ditch to the construction of the castle. | Urney, Castlesessagh, Castlederg | H26058442 | NISMR
database http://web.ukonline.co.uk/nigel.bacon/castles/data/ireland/c/castlesessagh.htm |
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| Castle Gore | Castle? | Urney, Castlegore | H25368332 | NISMR database | |||
| Castle Hill Castle | None | Plantation Castle | 1610-11
-- Land Grant to -- Edward Blunt ???? -- Ownership change to -- Earl of Castlehaven ???? -- Transferred to -- Mervyn family |
Drumragh, Ballynahatty | H438674 | NISMR database | |
| Castle Mervyn (Trillic, Trillick, Trellick Castle/Lodge) | Ruins | Defended House and Bawn - The site survives as a rectangular block 6.5m wide x 14m long, consisting of the W gable & chimney stack, with fragments of N, E & S walls of a 2-3 storey defended house. On the ground floor is a large fire place & bread oven set into the W gable. The 1st floor had large windows & a fire place. Little detail can be seen above this due to dense ivy. It was built & rebuilt several times over the course of C17th. | Kilskeery, Castlemyrvn | H33545758 | http://www.from-ireland.net/lewis/t/kilskerry.htm http://www.goireland.com/scripts/low/xq/asp/areatype.t/areaid.3966/qx/area.htm http://www.orangenet.org/irish_history2.htm http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Park/2283/projects/kilskeery/ NISMR database |
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| Castlemaine ("smaller portion of Fintona", Fentonagh, Derrybard) | http://www.from-ireland.net/lewis/t/donacavey.htm | ||||||
| Castlemoyle (Castlemoil Castle) | None | Castle? - The remains consist of a platform 24m N-S x 18.3m E-W, defined by a scarp 8m high at W, 4m at N & c.0.5m at S & W. | Ardstraw, Moyle Glebe | H41098619 | http://www.from-ireland.net/lewis/t/ardstraw.htm NISMR database |
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| Castlestewart ( Stewart Hall, Stewartstown Castle) | Ruins | Castle - The site of the castle consists of a sub-rectangular platform, 35m N-S x 60m E-W, standing 1.5m high. There is a level area S of this which falls away to W along the line of what may be a bawn dividing the castle from the remains of a series of regularly spaced hollows which flank the old avenue running between the castle & Stewartstown. | Donaghenry, Castle Farm, Stewartstown | H85997077 | http://www.from-ireland.net/lewis/t/donoghenry.htm http://www.from-ireland.net/lewis/t/bclog.htm http://radiocarbon.pa.qub.ac.uk/local/tyrone/Roughan/ NISMR database |
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| Charlemont Fort | Ruin | Earthworks started 1602. | Caulfield - 17th & 18th century | http://web.ukonline.co.uk/nigel.bacon/castles/data/ireland/c/charlemont.htm http://www.goireland.com/scripts/low/xq/asp/areatype.t/areaid.2901/qx/area.htm |
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| Derrywoone Castle (Derrygoon Manor, Derrywoone, Derrywoon, Dirrywoon) | Ruins | Fortified House - consisted of an L-shaped 3 storey house with a corbelled stair. The entrance is at ground floor & this floor also has large windows, giving a domestic rather than defensive appearance. However a large round tower with pistol loops covers the house wall. | >1619 -- built by -- | Ardstraw, Barrons Court | H36718356 | http://www.mccaskie.org.uk/Caldwells.htm http://www.ulsterancestry.com/newsletter-content.php?id=20 NISMR database |
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| Drumglass Castle (may be Millton Castle) | http://www.from-ireland.net/lewis/t/drumglass.htm | ||||||
| Dungannon Castle | Ruins | Castle and House | c14th
-- Built by -- Domnall O'Neill c1498 -- Captured by -- 8th Earl of Kildare 1590 -- Demolished by -- O'Donnells 1607 -- Granted to -- Sir Arthur Chichester ???? -- Old Castle Removed, New bawn by -- Sir Arthur Chichester 1641 -- Captured by -- O'Niells 1646 -- Castle Destroyed |
Drumglass, Drumco (Dungannon) | H79906262 | http://www.from-ireland.net/lewis/t/countytyrone.htm http://www.nireland.com/genealogy/pre-16_1.HTM NISMR database |
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| Dunnamanagh Castle | None | Castle and Bawn -Gothic ruin consists of a "double pile with a five-bay, 3 storey, S front with arched windows to the top floor & a fore-standing round tower in the central bay" (Rowan). The NW perimeter is still bounded by what seems to be the remains of foundations of a bawn wall. | ????
-- Bawn Built by -- Sir John Drummond c18th -- Castle built by -- Hamiltons |
Donaghedy, Donnamanagh | C44580338 | NISMR database | |
| Favour Royal Castle (Portclair Castle) | Ridgeway (1611) | http://www.from-ireland.net/lewis/t/augher.htm http://www.york.ac.uk/depts/arch/landscapes/ukpg/sites/favourro.htm http://www.hoganstand.com/general/identity/stories/leslie.htm |
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| Fuith-na-gael Castle | None | http://www.from-ireland.net/lewis/t/carrenteel.htm | |||||
| Garvey Castle (Garvy Castle) | Ruins | http://www.from-ireland.net/lewis/t/carrenteel.htm | |||||
| Harry Averys Castle (Harry Onree's Castle) | Ruin | Castle and Baily - It is one of the few native built stone castles in Ireland. An artificially scarped mound forms an elevated bailey surrounded by a polygonal curtain wall. At SW end is a tower that looks like a gatehouse, entered between high D-shaped towers, but the only way in was up a stair & through the hall at 1st floor level, like in a tower-house | ???? -- Named after -- Henry Aimbreidh O'Neill | Ardstraw, Upper or New Deer Park | H39148522 | State Care | http://www.from-ireland.net/lewis/t/ardstraw.htm http://cloghmore.bravepages.com/tyrone/harryavery.html http://tyrone.goireland.com/scripts/low/xq/asp/areaid.194/areatype.C/cat.9/SubjectID.77/PremisesID.12540/qx/premises.htm NISMR database http://web.ukonline.co.uk/nigel.bacon/castles/data/ireland/h/harry_averys.htm |
| Killymoon Castle | Full* | http://clanboyd.info/outsideusa/ireland/famhist/charles/ http://radiocarbon.pa.qub.ac.uk/local/tyrone/Killymoon/ http://www.york.ac.uk/depts/arch/landscapes/ukpg/sites/killymoo.htm http://home.gwi.net/ages/Heralds%20page/Tyrone%20History.html |
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| Killymoon Castle (Old) | None* | http://clanboyd.info/outsideusa/ireland/famhist/charles/ http://radiocarbon.pa.qub.ac.uk/local/tyrone/Killymoon/ http://www.york.ac.uk/depts/arch/landscapes/ukpg/sites/killymoo.htm http://home.gwi.net/ages/Heralds%20page/Tyrone%20History.html |
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| Kinard Castle (Kennard, Gonn ard, Caledon, Aghaloo Castle) | None | Castle | ????
-- Owned by -- Roe O'Neill ???? -- Demoleshed by -- Earl of Cort |
Aghaloo, Caledon | H75404530 | http://www.from-ireland.net/lewis/t/caledon.htm http://www.proni.gov.uk/records/private/caledon.htm http://www.caledon.org.uk/estate_history.php NISMR database |
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| Lissan Castle (Lisane Castle) | http://www.from-ireland.net/lewis/t/lissan.htm http://www.staples-lissanhousecookstown.org.uk/ |
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| Maheraglass Castle (Maheraglass Priory) | Ruins | http://www.from-ireland.net/lewis/t/kildress.htm | |||||
| Mount Castle | Ruins | Plantation Castle | 1619 -- Built by -- | Donaghedy, Mountcastle | C41750515 | NISMR database | |
| Mountjoy Castle | Ruin | Campaign Fort - It is 2 storeys high, brick-built, the lower storey being stone-faced on the outside. It consists of a central rectangular block with 4 spear-shaped angle towers with gun loops. The NW tower is partly demolished & the W curtain wall destroyed. The entrance was on the S side of the E curtain wall. On the 1st floor are some wide windows. | 1602
-- Built by -- Lord Mountjoy 1643 -- Partly Burned |
Clonoe, Magheralamfield, Mountjoy | H90116869 | State Care | http://www.from-ireland.net/lewis/t/clonoe.htm http://cloghmore.bravepages.com/tyrone/mountjoy.html NISMR database http://web.ukonline.co.uk/nigel.bacon/castles/data/ireland/m/mountjoy.htm |
| Newtownstewart Castle | Ruin | Castle? - "a Castle of lyme & stone of good strength,4 stories high...about it is a Bawne of lyme & stone, 81ft long, 66ft broad & 9ft high, with 2 Flankers...". It is of the type of contemporary English Manor houses, with little defensive equipment. | 1619
-- Built by -- Sir Robert Newcomen 1641 -- Burned by -- ???? -- Rebuilt by -- 1698 -- Occupied by -- James II 1698 -- Dismanteld by -- James II |
Ardstraw, Newtownstewart | H40238582 | http://www.from-ireland.net/lewis/t/ardstraw.htm http://cloghmore.bravepages.com/tyrone/newtownstewart.html http://www.from-ireland.net/lewis/t/countytyrone.htm NISMR database http://web.ukonline.co.uk/nigel.bacon/castles/data/ireland/n/newtownstewart.htm |
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| Newtownstewart Castle (Pigeon Hill) | Ruin | Castle? - An earlier field report described "clear evidence on top of the mound for stone foundations of a rectangular building." | Ardstraw, Croshballinree, Newtownstewart | H40378577 | NISMR database | ||
| Omagh Castle | None | H 4472 | http://www.ucc.ie/celt/online/T100011/text277.html http://web.ukonline.co.uk/nigel.bacon/castles/data/ireland/o/omagh.htm |
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| O'Neills Castle (castle of the O'Nials) | None | Castle? | ???? -- Residence of -- The O'Neills | Drumragh, Omagh | H45417270 | http://www.from-ireland.net/lewis/t/countytyrone.htm http://www.from-ireland.net/lewis/t/caledon.htm http://www.caledon.org.uk/timeline.php NISMR database |
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| Roughan Castle (Rothan Castle) | Ruins | Castle - The castle takes the form of a tall, square tower with rounded towers at each corner. It is not economically designed for defence with guns; the symmetrical plan with the round towers is more reminiscent of medieval keeps. The entrance is at ground level in the NW tower. 3 story tower with 4 rounded corner-towers | 1618
-- Built by -- Sir Andrew Stewart ???? -- Held by -- Sir Phelim O'Neill |
Donaghenry,Roughan | H82316826 | State Care | http://www.from-ireland.net/lewis/t/donoghenry.htm http://radiocarbon.pa.qub.ac.uk/local/tyrone/Roughan/ NISMR database http://web.ukonline.co.uk/nigel.bacon/castles/data/ireland/r/roughan.htm |
| Roxborough Castle | None | Castle (French Chateau) | 1865 -- Designed by -- Barre (for Lord Charlemont) | Clonfeacle, Drumgart | H85315663 | http://www.york.ac.uk/depts/arch/landscapes/ukpg/sites/roxborou.htm http://www.oldirishimages.com/towns%20and%20villages/co%20tyrone/moy/moy%20pages/TR042.html NISMR database |
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| Strabane Castle | None | Plantation Castle - "a very strong & fair Castle & a School House of Lime & stone" & also "a large thatched house about a square court". | 1619
-- Built by -- Earl of Abercorn 1641 -- Beseiged by -- Phelim O'Neill |
Camus, Strabane | H347975 | http://www.from-ireland.net/lewis/t/badupper.htm http://www.from-ireland.net/lewis/t/countytyrone.htm http://www.thepeerage.com/p11026.htm NISMR database |
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| Tullaghoge Fort | None | A Celtic ring-fort which was the coronation place of the Ulster clan of the O'Neills, kings of Ulster in the 11th century. | http://www.clanfagan.com/locations.html http://web.ukonline.co.uk/nigel.bacon/castles/data/ireland/t/tullaghoge.htm http://radiocarbon.pa.qub.ac.uk/local/tyrone/Tullaghoge/ |
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