Mahee Castle Nendrum Castle | |
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Mahee Island, County Down, Northern Ireland | |
Coordinates | 54°30′03″N 5°38′55″W / 54.500951°N 5.648475°W |
Type | Tower house |
Height | 25 feet (7.6 m) |
Site information | |
Open to the public | Yes |
Condition | Ruined |
Site history | |
Built | 1570 |
Built by | Captain Thomas Browne |
In use | 16th–17th centuries |
Mahee Castle, also known as Nendrum Castle, is a small ruined tower house near Nendrum Monastery on Mahee Island in Strangford Lough, County Down, Northern Ireland.[1] It was built in 1570 by Captain Thomas Browne.[2][3] It was abandoned by the early 17th century, and fell into disrepair.[4] In 1923, H.C. Lawlor and the Belfast Natural History and Philosophical Society partly renovated the tower house to avoid further erosion and built a buttress wall to support the northwest corner of the tower.
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