Mount Castle

Mount Castle, County Tyrone Photo © Kenneth Allen, 20 July 2006

View from Mount Castle, County Tyrone Photo © Kenneth Allen, 20 July 2006

It is located at Mount Castle Farm, between Donemanagh and Newbuildings. Not much remains of this castle except for a turret wall.

MOUNT CASTLE, COUNTY OF TYRONE.

The above is all that now remains of a pile of building, at one period of very considerable extent. The castle is situated on the estate of the Marquis of Abercorn, who derives from the place the title of Baron Mountcastle. It is supposed to have been erected in the commencement of the seventeenth century.

Adjacent to the ruins is a fine prospect of the surrounding country; which presents that variety of appearance, hill and dale, mountain and valley, which invariably characterizes the province of Ulster. To the west is seen the river Foyle, winding through the rich and well-cultivated parish of Clonleigh, with the numerous fine plantations and snug farm-houses appearing on its banks ; and the prospect is bounded, in that direction, by the mountains of Donegal, appearing dim and indistinct in the far distant horizon.

Reference

The Dublin penny journal, Volume 4 By Philip Dixon Hardy 1835