Quintin Castle, County Down

by jenjunebug

Quintin Castle, County Down

Quintin Castle, Portaferry, County Down, photograph by Robert French, (between ca. 1865-1914), Lawrence Photograph Collection, National Library of Ireland.

Bence-Jones, Mark. A Guide to Irish Country Houses (originally published as Burke’s Guide to Country Houses volume 1 Ireland by Burke’s Peerage Ltd. 1978); Revised edition 1988 Constable and Company Ltd, London. 

p. 236. “(Ancketill/IFR) A romantic early C19 castle, part of which dates from C17, surrounded by battlemented walls and outworks and rising spectacularly from among the rocks on the sea coast.”  

Quinton Castle, Portaferry, County Down, photograph by Robert French, (between ca. 1865-1914), Lawrence Photograph Collection, National Library of Ireland.

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