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1560s Narrow Water Castle Newry Co Down

Narrow Water Castle built in the 1560s at a cost of £361 4s 2d for an English garrison, is a 16th-century tower house and bawn near Warrenpoint in Northern Ireland. It is beside the A2 road and on the County Down bank of the Clanrye (Newry) River, which enters Carlingford Lough a mile to the south. It is a historic monument in state care in the townland of Narrow Water, in Newry and Mourne District Council district. Western facade of the tower house Originally the site of a 13th century Norman keep (associated with Hugh de Lacy), a replacement tower house and bawn was built at Narrow Water by the Magennis family in the 16th century. The replacement structure, built in the 1560s, was a typical example of the tower houses built throughout Ireland at the time. This kind of building, often rectangular in plan and three or more storeys high, comprised a series of superimposed chambers, with stairs, closets and latrines built within the walls (which are 1.5 metres or five feet thick in places). The tower entrance in the west wall was protected by a forebuilding and a corbelled machicolation above, with a murder-hole immediately inside. Gun-loops on the corner provided extra cover. The first floor room has a semi-circular barrel vault built on wicker centring. There was a wall-walk behind the stepped battlements, commanding extensive views. The bawn wall has been modified by later use (the site was used for industrial purposes in the late 18th century) but it must represent the extent of the original enclosure, with part of the promontory to the west left for a small boat quay. The castle was damaged during the Irish Rebellion of 1641, and sold to the Hall family in the 1670s. It was occupied by the Hall family until they built an "Elizabethan revival style" mansion (also called "Narrow Water Castle") in the early 19th century. The original (16th century) Narrow Water Castle keep was given into state care in 1956. On 27 August 1979, 18 British Army soldiers were killed by a Provisional IRA ambush near Narrow Water Castle. It was the greatest single loss of life for the British Army during The Troubles.