Ardglass Castle
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Ardglass Castle (also The Newark , Irish Caisleán Ard Ghlais ) is located in Ardglass in County Down, Northern Ireland . The castle was originally a row of 15th century warehouses in the city's harbor. Large parts of the original buildings can still be seen in the modern clubhouse of the Ardglass Golf Club .
history
The 15th century buildings were converted into a fortified house at the end of the 18th century by order of Charles FitzGerald, 1st Baron Lecale . The castle was also home to his mother, Emily FitzGerald , the Duchess of Leinster , and her second husband, William Ogilvie , who adopted their son, Lord Edward Fitzgerald . Ogilvie was later responsible for developing Ardglass into a modern seaside resort and port. The old warehouses were given battlements and normal windows, and the interior was decorated with contemporary stucco . Later the daughter from the first marriage of William Ogilvie, the wife of Charles Beauclerk , a great-grandson of Charles Beauclerk, 1st Duke of St. Albans , inherited the castle. In the late 19th century the windows were redesigned and the castle was given a vestibule. In 1911 the castle became the domicile of the Ardglass Golf Club .
construction
The warehouse block consisted of 13 individual houses, which were reinforced with towers at each end. They were probably rented to local and foreign merchants.
The Dublin Penny Journal of March 30, 1833 described Ardglass Castle as follows:
“There is also a long line of fortified houses here called 'New-works' by the locals, which are said to have been built around 1570 at Shane O'Neill's orders. You stand boldly on the rocky beach of the bay. The water reaches them from the east and north. They extend over 75 meters in length and only 7.2 meters in width; the walls are three inches thick. Their appearance is uniform and elegant. They consist of three square towers, one in the middle and one at each end. In each tower there are three rooms, 3 meters by 3 meters. The spaces in between [between the towers] are filled with a series of 15 arched doorways made of cut stone and 16 square windows - one doorway and one window alternately placed next to each other. This construction leaves no doubt that they were once intended to serve as shops or stores for merchants. Above the shops there is a warehouse that contains the same number of rooms, each of which is accessed via its own staircase. The rooms on the ground floor were 2.1 meters high, those on the upper floor 1.95 meters. In each of them there was a small toilet, the drain of which was led down through the wall and ended in the sea. They have no open fireplaces and the merchants - it seems - used Horn Castle as their kitchen and dining room. There are no windows or other openings on the seaside except for narrow loopholes, a fact which, together with the towers at the ends and in the middle, shows that the second purpose of the building was that of a fortress, which was supposed to protect the merchants from pirate attacks. "
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Department of the Environment for Northern Ireland: Historic Monuments of Northern Ireland . Her Majesty's Stationary Office, Belfast 1983, p. 151.
- ^ Mark Bence-Jones: A Guide to Irish County Houses . Constable, London 1988, ISBN 0-09-469990-9 , p. 10.
- ^ JP Mallory, TE McNeill: The Archeology of Ulster from Colonization to Plantation . Institute of Irish Studies, QUB, Belfast 1991, p. 287.
- ^ Ardglass, County of Down . In: Library Ireland - from the Dublin Penny Journal . Issue 1, number 40, March 30, 1833 . Retrieved October 8, 2015.
Coordinates: 54 ° 15 ′ 30 ″ N , 5 ° 36 ′ 20 ″ W.