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Carrickfergus Castle

Carrickfergus Castle Carrickfergus Castle is a fine Norman castle in Carrickfergus in County Antrim, on the northern shore of Belfast Lough. Besieged in turn by Scots, Irish, English and French, the castle played an important military role even until 1928 and remains one of the best preserved mediæval structures in Ireland. The Castle strategically commanded the entrance to the lough. In its day, three-quarters of the castle perimeter was surrounded by water, though in modern times only a third is surrounded by water due to land reclamation. Today it is maintained as a state care historic monument. (Read more)