Bagenal's Castle

Bagenal's Castle takes its name from Sir Nicholas Bagenal, an English settler from Staffordshire who was appointed Marshal of the Army in Ireland and granted the dissolved Cistercian abbey at Newry by King Edward VI in 1552. The castle itself was constructed circa 1568 as a fortified house on the abbey's site, representing an early example of the gentry residences that characterized late 16th-c...