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  • Portaferry Castle

    Topics:
    • Historic environment, 
    • Archaeology & Monuments

    Castle Street
    Portaferry
    BT22 1PB
    United Kingdom

    Contact

    Phone: 028 9082 3207
    Email: scmenquiries@communities-ni.gov.uk
    Website: https://discovernorthernireland.com/things-to-do/portaferry-castle-p676311

    Additional Information

    Open to the public: No
    Grid reference: J5929450852
    View on the Historic Environment Map Viewer
    SM number: DOW 032:003
    View details on the NI Sites & Monuments Record (NISMR)

    About Portaferry Castle

    Prominently sited on the slope overlooking Portaferry harbour, within sight of Strangford and Audley’s Castles across the water, this is a 15th- or 16th-century tower-house, built by the Savage family. Simpler than the earlier ‘gatehouse’ type, it is square in plan with one projecting tower to the south. Here a small machicolation arch defends the door. There are three storeys and an attic, and the projecting tower rises higher than the rest of the building containing both stairs and latrines. Like early tower-houses it has spiral stairs, but like some later ones it lacks a stone vault, all the floors being originally of wood. The east angle is ruined and the castle is a shell, visible only from outside.

    Other historic places you can visit:

    • Love Heritage NI
    Portaferry Castle
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