Building or ruin · Roman
Cirencester Amphitheatre
Gloucestershire
The second-largest amphitheatre in Roman Britain, built for a town second in size only to Londinium, later refortified as a Saxon-era stronghold.
- Some walking
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Fortified place · Medieval
Cirencester Castle
Gloucestershire
Historians still dispute whether Cirencester Castle survived beyond 1142 at all, turning the fortress's very ending into contested history rather t…
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Fortified place · Prehistoric
Cissbury Ring
West Sussex
Around 270 shafts were sunk into this hill over three centuries, some twelve metres deep, with galleries running out from the bottom of each.
- Near Findon
- Some walking
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Building or ruin · Medieval
City of Caves
Nottinghamshire
City of Caves lets visitors enter Nottingham’s soft sandstone history, where chambers served medieval workers, later tanners, and Second World War…
- Some walking
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Carved stone · Pictish & early medieval
Clach a' Charridh
Highland
A carved cross faces the sea while Pictish beasts and a hunting scene face the land on the reverse: a single stone holding two entirely different v…
- Near Inverness
- Easy path
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Carved stone · Pictish & early medieval
Clach a' Mheirlich
Highland
A single monolith carries two separate ages of use: raised in the Bronze Age (roughly 2500–800 BC), then marked centuries later with Pictish (of th…
- Near Rosskeen
- Easy path
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Carved stone · Pictish & early medieval
Clach an Tiompain
Highland
A carved eagle on a Pictish stone became, centuries later, the marker for a clan battle and the trigger for a seer's flood prophecy.
- Near Inverness
- Some walking
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Sacred place · Prehistoric
Clach an Trushal
Outer Hebrides
On the west side of Lewis, in the village of Ballantrushal, a single grey pillar of stone rises 5.8 metres out of the machair. Clach an Trushal is…
- Easy path
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Carved stone · Pictish & early medieval
Clach Biorach
Highland
A Bronze Age pillar over three metres tall was reused two thousand years later as a canvas for Pictish carving: a salmon, a double-disc and a Z-rod…
- Near Edderton
- Easy path
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Ancient place · Prehistoric
Cladh Hallan
Outer Hebrides
Cladh Hallan is an ancient settlement on South Uist, notable for mummified bodies that were preserved and later reburied.
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Tomb or burial place · Prehistoric
Clandon Barrow
Dorset
Clandon Barrow is a major burial monument dating the period from about 2500 to 800 BC whose 1882 excavation produced the Clandon Lozenge, a gold ob…
- Near Martinstown
- Some walking
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Sacred place · Medieval
Clane Friary
County Kildare
A single ruined church holds two religious lives at once: an early Gaelic monastery that hosted a national synod, and a Franciscan house of friars…
- Near Clane
- Some walking
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Fortified place · Medieval
Clara Castle
County Kilkenny
Clara Castle is a remarkably complete Kilkenny tower house whose original doors, oak beams, painted chamber and sophisticated security fittings mak…
- Near Clara
- Some walking
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Sacred place · Medieval
Clare Abbey
County Clare
Clare Abbey was County Clare’s largest Augustinian house, a riverbank monastery whose founding, battle history, architecture and later dissolution…
- Near Ennis
- Easy path
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Fortified place · Medieval
Clare Castle
Suffolk
A ruined castle raised by Richard Fitz Gilbert soon after the Conquest, its mound and yard later rebuilt in stone.
- Near Clare
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Sacred place · Medieval
Clare Island Abbey
County Mayo
Cistercian monks rarely painted their walls, yet here dragons, a harper and grazing stags survive, and tradition ties the canopied tomb within to G…
- Near Clare Island
- Some walking
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Sacred place · Medieval
Clare Priory
Suffolk
The first house of the Augustinian Friars in England, established in 1248 on the bank of the Stour.
- Near Clare
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Sacred place · Medieval
Claregalway Friary
county-galway
A 24-metre tower, church ruins and the remains of community buildings record the long life of a Franciscan house at Claregalway.
- Near Claregalway
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Building or ruin · Medieval
Clarendon Palace
Wiltshire
It was here in 1164 that Henry II drafted the Constitutions of Clarendon, a challenge to Church authority whose fallout led to Becket's murder six…
- Some walking
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Fortified place · Iron Age
Clatchard Craig
Fife
Clatchard Craig was an important stronghold of the Picts, the people of northern and eastern Scotland from about AD 300 to 900, with evidence of el…
- Some walking
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Sacred place · Medieval
Clattercote Priory
Oxfordshire
This Oxfordshire monastery began life as a hospital for the sick, and a manor house has occupied its cleared ground since the seventeenth century.
- Near Clattercote
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Crossing or structure · Pictish & early medieval
Clattern Bridge
Greater London
Built around 1175, this three-arched crossing over the Hogsmill is still carrying full modern traffic on its Norman stonework, making it one of Eng…
- Easy path
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Fortified place · Iron Age
Clatworthy Camp
Somerset
Scrub and tree growth put this site on the Heritage at Risk Register - the threat to the earthwork, a bank and ditch shaped from soil rather than b…
- Some walking
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Building or ruin · Roman
Clausentum
Hampshire
A river bend did the work of a rampart (the raised bank thrown up around a fortified enclosure) here: the promontory site was fortified twice over,…
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Tomb or burial place · Prehistoric
Clava cairn
Highland
A burial mound of piled stones at Balnuaran of Clava, whose kerb stones were sorted by colour before they were laid.
- Near Inverness
- Some walking
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Tomb or burial place · Prehistoric
Clava cairns of Aviemore
Highland
These three damaged circles preserve unusually detailed evidence for how field clearance, railway construction and housing altered an interconnecte…
- Near Aviemore
- Some walking
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Fortified place · Medieval
Clawdd-du
Monmouthshire
Clawdd-du preserves Monmouth’s medieval outer defence for Overmonnow: a broad, potentially floodable ditch and palisade that protected a Welsh-side…
- Near Monmouth
- Easy path
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Fortified place · Medieval
Claxton Castle
Norfolk
Claxton Castle is a rare Norfolk brick-castle ruin whose paired fourteenth-century licences to crenellate, later dismantling for Claxton Hall, surv…
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Fortified place · Medieval
Claypotts Castle
Dundee City
Claypotts Castle is one of Scotland’s best-preserved sixteenth-century Z-plan tower houses, combining a compact domestic residence with a striking…
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Building or ruin · Medieval
Clayton Hall
Greater Manchester
Clayton Hall is a rare surviving medieval moated manor in Manchester, preserving a 15th-century wing, the Clayton–Byron–Chetham story and a volunte…
- Near Winchester
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Fortified place · Iron Age
Clearbury Ring
Wiltshire
A single bank-and-ditch settlement above the Avon valley holds a Stone Age hand axe far older than the earthwork (a bank, ditch or mound shaped fro…
- Some walking
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Fortified place · Roman
Cleddans
East Dunbartonshire
Cleddans confirms the Antonine Wall’s system of small interval fortlets, while its richly carved legionary slabs record the construction and imager…
- Near Duntocher
- Some walking
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Sacred place · Medieval
Cleeve Abbey
Somerset
In 1400 the abbot and three of his monks were reported to the government for leading a band of 200 robbers attacking travellers.
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Fortified place · Iron Age
Cleeve Hill, Gloucestershire
Gloucestershire
An Iron Age hillfort (an upland enclosure defended by earthen banks) occupies the highest edge of the Cotswolds, sharing its escarpment with a Neol…
- Some walking
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Fortified place · Iron Age
Cleeve Toot
Somerset
A roughly oval defended hilltop above Goblin Combe, some 125 metres by 90.
- Some walking
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Fortified place · Iron Age
Clegyr Boia
Pembrokeshire
A rocky crown west of St Davids carrying traces of early farming and later settlement, a natural lookout over the peninsula.
- Near St Davids
- Some walking
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Sacred place · Medieval
Clerkenwell Priory
Greater London
Headquarters of the Knights Hospitaller in England for four centuries, and the site where Richard III publicly abandoned his plan to marry his own…
- Easy path
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Fortified place · Iron Age
Cley Hill
Wiltshire
A chalk down west of Warminster carries an Iron Age (roughly 800 BC until the Roman conquest) fort, two burial mounds and a folklore of devils and…
- Some walking
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Fortified place · Medieval
Clifden Castle
County Galway
Its 1935 transfer to a cooperative left the castle jointly owned by dozens of tenant families, an unusually communal ending for a Gothic Revival ge…
- Near Clifden
- Some walking
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Fortified place · Medieval
Clifford Castle
Herefordshire
The mistress of a king, an abducted heiress forced into marriage, and a Marcher lord who made a royal messenger eat his own writ all passed through…
- Near Hereford
- Some walking
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Fortified place · Medieval
Clifton Castle
North Yorkshire
The present Grecian house was built from the very stone of the medieval stronghold it replaced, leaving only a single fragment of castle wall as wi…
- Some walking
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Fortified place · Medieval
Clitheroe Castle
Lancashire
Its keep (the principal tower, built to be held even if the walls fell) is the second smallest surviving stone-built keep in England, yet from this…
- Some walking
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Fortified place · Medieval
Cloghan Castle (County Cork)
County Cork
A tower house stranded on its own island in a lough deep enough for whales, abandoned so completely that its final chief's death simply erased it f…
- Near Clonakilty
- Rough ground
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Sacred place · Medieval
Clonard Abbey
County Meath
A single monk's cell beside the Boyne grew into the school that trained several of the Twelve Apostles of Ireland, and for a century was the seat o…
- Near Clonard
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Sacred place
Clonard Monastery
County Antrim
Built for Belfast’s growing Catholic working-class population, Clonard became a religious refuge at the Troubles interface and a setting for the qu…
- Near Belfast
- Easy path
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Fortified place · Medieval
Clonbrock Castle
County Galway
A fire-gutted Georgian mansion and a 15th-century tower house share one estate held by a single family for nearly four centuries, from Irish gentry…
- Near Ahascragh
- Easy path
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Sacred place · Medieval
Clones Abbey
County Monaghan
A round tower missing the doorway arch typical of its age, a two-faced high cross, and a sarcophagus reputed to hold the founder's remains: survivo…
- Near Clones
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Sacred place · Pictish & early medieval
Clonmacnoise
County Offaly
A river crossing where the Slighe Mhór met the Shannon drew high kings, scholars and craftsmen from across Europe for centuries, leaving Ireland's…
- Near Clonmacnoise
- Easy path
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Sacred place · Medieval
Clontuskert Abbey
County Galway
Its 1471 west doorway is the site's most distinctive surviving feature, at the monastic house ruled for centuries by one family.
- Near Loughrea
- Easy path
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Fortified place · Medieval
Clonyn Castle
County Westmeath
A Victorian baronial fantasy raised over a medieval stronghold, this castle later sheltered Holocaust orphan children before returning to private h…
- Near Delvin
- Easy path
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Fortified place · Medieval
Cloonigny Castle
County Galway
The stonework of its O'Kelly tower house has vanished to foundations, yet the moat that defended it: two banks, a ditch and a separate earthen moun…
- Near Athenry
- Some walking
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Crossing or structure · Medieval
Clopton Bridge
Warwickshire
Fourteen pointed arches over the Avon at the Saxon ford that named Stratford: one of them deliberately destroyed in 1642 to stop Cromwell's army.
- Near Stratford-upon-Avon
- Easy path
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Fortified place · Medieval
Clopton House
Warwickshire
Ambrose Rookwood, one of the Gunpowder Plot conspirators, was living here in 1605.
- Near Stratford-upon-Avon
- Easy path
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Fortified place · Medieval
Cloughoughter Castle
County Cavan
The last Confederacy stronghold to surrender, in 1653: with the cannon damage that took it still visible on the walls.
- Near Killeshandra
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Building or ruin · Iron Age
Clovelly Dykes
Devon
Clovelly Dykes is a large Early Iron Age earthwork (earth moved and shaped into banks and ditches rather than built up in stone) on Devon’s coastal…
- Rough ground
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Fortified place · Medieval
Clun Castle
Shropshire
Many of its arrowslits are fakes. The great tower looks formidable and could easily have been undermined.
- Near Clun
- Some walking
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Fortified place · Medieval
Clyne Castle
Swansea
Built in 1791, remodelled repeatedly, and said to have received Queen Victoria, Winston Churchill and Edward VIII as guests of the Vivian family.
- Near Blackpill
- Easy path
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Fortified place · Medieval
Clytha Castle
Monmouthshire
A grief-built folly on a Monmouthshire hilltop, its roofless round tower deliberately left as an empty shell purely to balance the view from a dist…
- Easy path
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Settlement · Medieval
Coates medieval settlement
Lincolnshire
Its parish church holds Lincolnshire's only surviving 15th-century rood screen, a rare survival in a village otherwise reduced to earthworks, two f…
- Near Coates
- Some walking
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Fortified place · Medieval
Cockermouth Castle
Cumbria
Built partly from stone lifted out of the Roman fort at Papcastle, the castle has stayed in one family's hands since the 18th century and part of i…
- Near Cockermouth
- Some walking
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Sacred place · Medieval
Cockersand Abbey
Lancashire
A single vaulted chapter house, still roofed and intact, is all that remains standing of what was once the third-richest abbey (a religious communi…
- Near Cockerham
- Easy path
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Fortified place · Medieval
Cockham Wood Fort
Kent
Cockham Wood Fort is a visible Medway shoreline defence built after the 1667 Dutch raid, marking the shift from Upnor Castle to a stronger protecti…
- Near Hoo St Werburgh
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Fortified place · Medieval
Cockle Park Tower
Northumberland
Cockle Park Tower is a Grade I listed fifteenth-century tower house whose hunting-lodge origins and machicolated bartisans survive within Newcastle…
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Fortified place · Medieval
Cockroad Wood Castle
Somerset
A castle with two baileys and a motte, the earthen mound a castle was raised on, standing seven metres high: and appearing in no document at all.
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Fortified place · Iron Age
Codford Circle
Wiltshire
Too slight to defend anything, with no evidence of anyone ever living inside it. What it was for is unknown, and so is when it was built.
- Some walking
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Fortified place · Medieval
Codnor Castle
Derbyshire
A crumbling keep on the Erewash valley's edge once anchored the Grey dynasty that produced Lady Jane Grey, and a 2007 dig pulled a gold coin of Hen…
- Near Bakewell
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Tomb or burial place · Medieval
Coetan Arthur
Pembrokeshire
A six-metre capstone resting on a single upright near St Davids Head, its chamber of the first farming age collapsed.
- Near St Davids
- Some walking
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Building or ruin · Roman
Coggabata
Cumbria
Excavation showed the fort was rebuilt twice: an earthwork enclosure replaced by a stone one: and its stones later resurfaced in a medieval castle…
- Near Drumburgh
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Sacred place · Medieval
Coggeshall Abbey
Essex
Coggeshall Abbey is a major surviving Cistercian landscape, where chapel, undercroft: the vaulted storage space beneath a building: and vast tithe…
- Easy path
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Fortified place · Medieval
Coity Castle
Bridgend
Its round inner ward still traces the shape of a Norman ringwork rebuilt three times over: by conquest, by siege, and by a Tudor family turning a f…
- Near Coity
- Some walking
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Fortified place · Medieval
Colchester Castle
Essex
Colchester Castle is Europe’s largest surviving medieval keep, built by the Normans directly on the podium of Britain’s largest Roman temple.
- Easy path
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Settlement · Medieval
Cold Hanworth medieval settlement
Lincolnshire
A whole vanished village survives in the ground here: house plots, a curving street and open-field furrows still traceable beside the church that a…
- Near Cold Hanworth
- Some walking
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Fortified place · Iron Age
Coldoch Broch
Stirling
Cleared out just before 1870. A plan was drawn, and the excavation report never appeared.
- Near Doune
- Rough ground
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Tomb or burial place · Prehistoric
Coldrum Long Barrow
Kent
Coldrum Long Barrow is the best-preserved Medway Megalith, a ruined Early Neolithic tomb-shrine whose chamber held at least 17 people and still anc…
- Near Trottiscliffe
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Sacred place · Medieval
Cole Park
Wiltshire
A royal Tudor stud-farm built on the bones of a monastic deer-park, its moat still tracing ground the Abbey (a monastery headed by an abbot) of Mal…
- Easy path
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Sacred place · Medieval
College of All Saints, Maidstone
Kent
Maidstone’s College of All Saints preserves the surviving buildings of a 1395 ecclesiastical college whose Perpendicular architecture, gatehouse an…
- Near Maidstone
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Sacred place · Prehistoric
Colmeallie stone circle
Angus
By 1853, elderly locals in Glen Esk still recalled the circle looking fuller, before stone-robbing thinned it: a rare glimpse of a monument's decli…
- Easy path
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Sacred place · Medieval
Colne Priory
Essex
Colne Priory was the de Vere family’s long-lived mausoleum and a Benedictine house whose buried remains still surface beneath the lawns of its late…
- Easy path
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Fortified place · Medieval
Colwyn Castle
Powys
A castle destroyed by a Welsh prince, rebuilt under a king who stayed two seasons to watch the work, and rebuilt again eleven years later.
- Near Builth Wells
- Easy path
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Building or ruin · Prehistoric
Combe Hill, East Sussex
East Sussex
Two millennia apart, people chose this hilltop to bury deliberate offerings: three polished Neolithic (the late Stone Age, roughly 4000–2500 BC in…
- Near Jevington
- Some walking
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Clare Castle, County Armagh
County Armagh
Clare Castle preserves a ruined Plantation tower and bawn whose unfinished construction, 1641 attack and 1785 fire trace a troubled estate history.
- Near Tandragee
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Fortified place · Medieval
Clavering Castle
Essex
Clavering Castle is a rare pre-Conquest ringwork, where Norman, Anglo-Saxon and possible earlier defensive layers survive as earthworks beside the…
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Tomb or burial place · Prehistoric
Clodagh Standing Stones
County Cork
A protected Bronze Age (roughly 2500–800 BC, when metal tools first spread) pair of standing stones near Drimoleague, representing a monument type…
- Some walking
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Tomb or burial place · Prehistoric
Cloghanmore
County Donegal
Cloghanmore is an unusually arranged Donegal court tomb: a tomb from before any written account of Britain existed with an unroofed court before it…
- Near Carndonagh
- Rough ground
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Fortified place · Medieval
Clogrennane Castle
County Carlow
Clogrennane Castle is a ruined River Barrow stronghold whose history traces Butler power, Tudor rebellion and later transformation into a country-h…
- Near Carlow
- Some walking
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Fortified place · Medieval
Clomantagh Castle
County Kilkenny
Clomantagh Castle is a restored fifteenth-century Butler tower house where a Sheela na gig and later domestic additions carry medieval symbolism in…
- Near Freshford
- Easy path
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Fortified place · Medieval
Clonea Castle
County Waterford
A castle-like ruin on Clonea Beach turned out to be barely two centuries old, not medieval: and a single 1990 storm finished off in one night what…
- Near Dungarvan
- Rough ground
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Fortified place · Medieval
Clonmore Castle
County Carlow
Clonmore Castle is a late-thirteenth-century Anglo-Norman courtyard castle whose trefoil window and surviving plan remain visible despite severe iv…
- Near Tullow
- Some walking
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Fortified place · Medieval
Cloonacauneen Castle
County Galway
A working medieval tower house that never became a ruin for long: after decades of decay it was patched, re-roofed and put back to use as a home, t…
- Near Galway
- Easy path
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Fortified place · Medieval
Clough Castle
Down
A County Down motte-and-bailey: an early Norman castle of a timber tower on an earth mound, with a walled yard beside it: whose 1951–52 excavation…
- Near Downpatrick
- Some walking
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Ancient tree · Medieval
Cloughmore
Down
Cloughmore pairs 10,000-year-old glacial transport with a mountain legend: one huge boulder gives Rostrevor both a geological landmark and a Fionn…
- Near Rostrevor
- Some walking
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Fortified place · Iron Age
Clumlie Broch
Shetland Islands
Clumlie Broch stands on a low rise amid flat arable ground in Dunrossness, on southern Shetland Mainland, roughly eight kilometres north of Sumburg…
- Some walking
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Fortified place · Iron Age
Cluny Hill
Moray
Cluny Hill brings together a confirmed prehistoric (before written records reached Britain) hillfort (an upland enclosure defended by earthen banks…
- Near Forres
- Some walking
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Sacred place · Medieval
Cockerham Priory
Lancashire
Cockerham Priory represents a small Lancashire cell of Leicester Abbey, recording the extension of Augustinian canons from St Mary de Pratis into t…
- Near Cockerham
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Building or ruin · Roman
Coed-y-Caerau
newport
Three linked Iron Age earthworks: from the centuries before the Roman conquest: and a Roman fortlet on one Monmouthshire ridge, unexcavated, with C…
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Sacred place · Prehistoric
Coffin Stone
Kent
The Coffin Stone is a striking Medway megalith whose possible long barrow, a prehistoric burial mound, origin remains unresolved after excavation s…
- Near Aylesford
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Sacred place · Medieval
Colchester Crutched Friary
Essex
Colchester Crutched Friary is a lost medieval house known through its foundation, Dissolution (Henry VIII's closure of the monasteries in the 1530s…
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Sacred place · Medieval
Colchester Greyfriars
Essex
Colchester Greyfriars was a Franciscan house whose recorded church, hall and service buildings reveal a substantial friary (the base of a mendicant…
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Fortified place · Medieval
Colcombe Castle
Devon
Colcombe Castle was a Courtenay seat near Colyton whose later history ties dynastic rivalry, Civil War destruction and the survival of a few fragme…
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Fortified place · Medieval
Coleraine Castle
County Londonderry
A short run of entries in the Annals of Ulster records Coleraine’s castle being built, destroyed and perhaps rebuilt within fourteen years of war.
- Near Coleraine
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