- Roughan Castle
Roughan Castle is a castle a mile outside
Newmills ,County Tyrone ,Northern Ireland , on theDungannon to Stewartstown road. It was built about 1618 by Sir Andrew Stewart, eldest son of Andrew Stewart the third Lord Ochiltree, Lord Castlestewart who came fromScotland during the plantation and established the nearby town of Stewartstown. Andrew Stewart junior acquired the land of Ballokevan from Robert Stewart between 1610 and 1619 and built his castle overlooking Roughan Lough. It is a small square castle, three storeys high with a central tower convert|20|ft|m square, flanked by thick rounded towers at each corner.The castle was once the refuge of Phelim O’Neill, leader of the
Irish Rebellion of 1641 inUlster . He was captured there in 1653 and taken toDublin , where he was hanged for treason. [cite web | title=Newmills Potted History| work=Culture Northern Ireland | url=http://www.culturenorthernireland.org/town_Home.aspx?co=4&to=206&ca=0&sca=0&navID=1 | accessdate=2007-11-28]Roughan Castle is a State Care Historic Monument in the
townland of Roughan, inDungannon and South Tyrone Borough Council area, at grid ref: H8231 6830. [cite web | title=Roughan Castle | work=Environment and Heritage Service NI - State Care Historic Monuments | url=http://www.ehsni.gov.uk/state_care_monuments_2007.pdf | accessdate=2007-12-04]References
* [http://www.chrono.qub.ac.uk/local/tyrone/Roughan/ Roughan Castle]
See also
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Castles in Northern Ireland
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