Building or ruin · Medieval
Inverlochy Castle
Highland
A 13th-century stone quadrangle that has kept the same four corner towers and curtain wall since it was built, having hosted two battles without ev…
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Building or ruin · Medieval
Inverness Castle
Highland
The red sandstone towers standing today are the third castle on this cliff: successor to a fortress whose 1428 parley ended with fifty Highland chi…
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Fortified place · Roman
Inverquharity
Angus
One of the smallest Roman installations in Scotland, grouped by archaeologists with Cargill II as the pair's most modest members rather than a majo…
- Near Kirriemuir
- Some walking
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Sacred place · Medieval
Iona Nunnery
Argyll and Bute
The ruined church, cloister and domestic ranges of the Iona Nunnery stand in a walled precinct beside Baile Mor, the only village on the island of…
- Near Baile Mor
- Easy path
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Sacred place · Medieval
Ipswich Blackfriars
Suffolk
A Dominican house founded by Henry III in 1263 and dissolved in 1538, the second of three friaries in the town.
- Near Ipswich
- Easy path
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Fortified place · Medieval
Irthington Castle
Cumbria
For over a century and a half an earthwork (banks and ditches raised from the earth rather than quarried stone) near Irthington served as the admin…
- Near Irthington
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Carved stone · Pictish & early medieval
Irton Cross
Cumbria
Carved in the early ninth century, it stands stylistically between the Bewcastle and Gosforth crosses, though its own runic inscription has never b…
- Near Irton
- Easy path
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Fortified place · Roman
Isca Augusta
Newport
Isca Augusta was the headquarters of the II Augusta legion at Caerleon, a rare largely undisturbed permanent Roman fortress whose name, successive…
- Easy path
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Building or ruin · Roman
Isca Dumnoniorum
Devon
Isca Dumnoniorum was Roman Exeter: a legionary fortress that became the Dumnonians’ civic capital and whose walls still shape the city.
- Some walking
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Fortified place · Medieval
Isert Kelly Castle
County Galway
A 21-metre tower house that survived a burning, a Cromwellian confiscation and centuries of weather largely intact, its 1604 fireplace still bearin…
- Near Athenry
- Easy path
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Sacred place · Medieval
Isleham Priory Church
Cambridgeshire
A Norman monastic chapel of about 1100 survives almost untouched because it spent centuries disguised as a barn, not because anyone set out to pres…
- Near Isleham
- Easy path
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Building or ruin · Roman
Isurium Brigantum
North Yorkshire
One of Roman Britain's most northerly civitas capitals, its buried amphitheatre only came to light through a 2011 geomagnetic survey: and two of it…
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Fortified place · Iron Age
Ivinghoe Beacon
Buckinghamshire
A chalk summit used as a beacon and modern film set, crossed by a route first walked between roughly 2500 and 800 BC.
- Near Ivinghoe
- Some walking
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Fortified place · Iron Age
Ivinghoe Hills
Buckinghamshire
An Iron Age hillfort (an Iron Age settlement defended by banks and ditches on high ground) and a prehistoric (from the era before writing arrived i…
- Near Ivinghoe
- Some walking
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Fortified place · Iron Age
Ivington Camp
Herefordshire
A defended Iron Age (from about 800 BC until the Romans came) hilltop guarding the approach to Leominster from the south, its earthwork (a mound or…
- Near Brierley
- Some walking
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Sacred place · Medieval
Ivychurch Priory
Wiltshire
A religious house whose ruined cloisters gave Sir Philip Sidney the setting to write much of his Arcadia, before nearly all of it was pulled down i…
- Easy path
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Sacred place · Medieval
Ixworth Priory
Suffolk
The east range survives almost complete inside a house called Ixworth Abbey. Stone from the ruins went into Hengrave Hall in the early sixteenth ce…
- Near Ixworth
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Tomb or burial place · Prehistoric
Jacket's Field Long Barrow
Kent
Jacket’s Field is a scheduled Early Neolithic long barrow, a prehistoric: a period predating the written record in Britain: burial mound, part of K…
- Near Boughton Aluph
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Building or ruin · Medieval
Jacob's Well, Bristol
Bristol
Scholars still argue whether this stone chamber served as a Jewish ritual bath or a place to cleanse the dead: either way it would be unique in Eng…
- Near Bristol
- Easy path
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Sacred place · Medieval
Jerpoint Abbey
County Kilkenny
Jerpoint Abbey is a richly carved Cistercian ruin whose cloister (the covered walkway round a monastery's central courtyard) figures and tomb sculp…
- Near Thomastown
- Easy path
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Sacred place · Medieval
Jervaulx Abbey
North Yorkshire
Its ruins were deliberately left unweeded and ivy-clad as a Picturesque garden feature, making Jervaulx the rare Cistercian ruin never stripped bar…
- Some walking
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Building or ruin · Medieval
Jewel Tower
Greater London
The Jewel Tower is one of Westminster’s rare medieval survivors: built for Edward III’s personal treasure, later used for Lords’ archives and offic…
- Near Westminster
- Easy path
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Building or ruin · Roman
Jewry Wall
Leicestershire
Two great arched openings still stand to full height in a wall raised around 125 AD: among the largest surviving pieces of Roman civil architecture…
- Easy path
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Fortified place · Medieval
Jigginstown Castle
County Kildare
Jigginstown is Thomas Wentworth’s unfinished red-brick royal house for Charles I, its surviving lower floors recording ambition halted by execution…
- Near Naas
- Easy path
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Fortified place · Medieval
John O'Gaunt's Castle
North Yorkshire
Buried footings and a ditched platform preserve the plan of a royal hunting lodge later granted to John of Gaunt, one of the most powerful men in f…
- Rough ground
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Fortified place · Medieval
Johnstown Castle
County Wexford
A Norman tower house rebuilt as a Gothic Revival fantasy, then handed to the State by its last family in place of death duties and turned into a wo…
- Near Wexford
- Easy path
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Building or ruin · Roman
Jordan Hill Roman Temple
Dorset
Jordan Hill Roman Temple is a compact Romano-Celtic sacred precinct above Bowleaze Cove, where temple remains, animal offerings, burials and a poss…
- Near Weymouth
- Easy path
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Fortified place · Medieval
Jordan's Castle, Wellow
Nottinghamshire
Jordan’s Castle is a modest arrangement of banks and ditches with a royal story: Henry III repeatedly stayed at the manor before it received a lice…
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Tomb or burial place · Prehistoric
Julliberrie's Grave
Kent
Julliberrie’s Grave is Kent’s excavated Stour long barrow, a prehistoric: a period before written records reached Britain: burial mound, preserving…
- Near Chilham
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Tomb or burial place · Prehistoric
Kealkill stone circle
County Cork
Its axial stone pointed the wrong way for decades, forcing archaeologists to reverse their own reading of which end of the ring actually mattered.
- Near Kealkill
- Some walking
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Sacred place · Medieval
Keele Preceptory
Staffordshire
A Templar estate given by Henry II, seized on a papal bull in 1307, and finally handed to the Hospitallers in 1342.
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Building or ruin · Medieval
Keld Heads Mine
North Yorkshire
A derelict lead-mining complex whose 3.3-kilometre smelting flue, built to appease angry farmers, once made it the most advanced lead mine in the c…
- Rough ground
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Fortified place · Medieval
Kellie Castle
Fife
Kellie Castle brings together a 14th-century Fife tower house and an exceptional Arts and Crafts revival, preserving Lorimer family art, interiors…
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Sacred place · Medieval
Kells Priory
County Kilkenny
Kells Priory is one of Ireland's largest medieval monuments, where defensive towers wrap an Augustinian precinct so completely that the religious h…
- Near Kells
- Some walking
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Fortified place · Iron Age
Kelly Rounds
Cornwall
Kelly Rounds is a large Iron Age hillfort: an Iron Age settlement defended by banks and ditches on high ground, from the centuries before Rome arri…
- Near Penzance
- Some walking
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Fortified place · Iron Age
Kelsborrow Castle
Cheshire
One of only seven known hillforts in Cheshire, its single bank and ditch mark it as a short-lived, one-phase Iron Age (roughly 800 BC until the Rom…
- Near Kelsall
- Some walking
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Fortified place · Iron Age
Kelsey Head
Cornwall
Ramparts thrown across the neck of a headland that flint flakes show people had already been using for thousands of years before anyone thought to…
- Near Newquay
- Some walking
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Fortified place · Medieval
Kemeys Inferior Motte
Newport
Kemeys Inferior Motte is a scheduled medieval earthwork (a bank or ditch dug and heaped from the ground itself, with no masonry) above the Usk whos…
- Near Langstone
- Some walking
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Fortified place · Medieval
Kendal Castle
Cumbria
The presumed birthplace of a Tudor queen turned out to be a myth, yet the roofless drumlin-top ruin still holds the story of the family that produc…
- Near Kendal
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Fortified place · Medieval
Kenfig Castle
Bridgend
A once-elegant Norman keep sacked by the Welsh at least six times now lies almost entirely swallowed by sand dunes, with only its tower's crown bre…
- Rough ground
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Fortified place · Medieval
Kenilworth Castle
Warwickshire
Kenilworth’s surviving keep, lake defences and palace ruins tell an exceptional story of a Norman fortress repeatedly remade for royal war, courtly…
- Near Kenilworth
- Some walking
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Ancient place · Prehistoric
Kennet Avenue
Wiltshire
Excavation proved this double line of stones once ran two and a half kilometres between two Avebury monuments: and that most of it was deliberately…
- Easy path
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Fortified place · Iron Age
Kentisbury Down
Devon
Kentisbury Down is a recorded Iron Age (roughly 800 BC until the Roman conquest) round near Blackmore Gate, marking prehistoric (before any written…
- Near Exeter
- Some walking
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Building or ruin · Prehistoric
Kents Cavern
Devon
Kents Cavern is one of Britain’s most important prehistoric (before any written account of Britain existed) sites: its deposits record deep geologi…
- Easy path
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Fortified place · Iron Age
Kenwalch's Castle
Somerset
An Iron Age fort possibly turned Roman fortress, on the county line, with a modern road running through what were probably its gates.
- Some walking
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Sacred place · Medieval
Kepier Hospital
County Durham
A medieval Durham hospital founded for poor people, rebuilt beside the Wear and later dissolved, with its gatehouse and hospital landscape still su…
- Near Durham
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Sacred place · Medieval
Kersey Priory
Suffolk
Founded as a hospital, converted into a monastery, and dissolved in 1443: nearly a century before the Dissolution: with the property handed to King…
- Near Kersey
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Sacred place · Medieval
Kerswell Priory
Devon
Kerswell Priory preserves a small medieval religious foundation whose disputed affiliation, alien-priory history, dissolution (Henry VIII's closure…
- Easy path
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Building or ruin · Medieval
Kew Palace
Greater London
Kew Palace preserves the modest Dutch House at the heart of a lost royal complex, connecting George III’s family life, architectural experiments an…
- Near Kew
- Easy path
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Crossing or structure · Medieval
Kexby Old Bridge
North Yorkshire
Closed to motor traffic since 2017 flood damage, this crossing carried the York-to-Hull road for six centuries and now survives as a scheduled monu…
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Sacred place · Medieval
Keynsham Abbey
Somerset
An abbey: a monastery headed by an abbot: endowed with 24,520 acres and quarried so thoroughly afterwards that in places the digging reached bedrock.
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Building or ruin · Medieval
Kibworth Harcourt Mill
Leicestershire
Kibworth Harcourt Mill is Leicestershire’s only surviving post mill, preserving early-18th-century machinery, millstones and 264 graffiti marks; it…
- Near Leicester
- Easy path
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Fortified place · Medieval
Kidwelly Castle
Carmarthenshire
A square inner bailey (the walled yard below the castle mound) of four round towers within a semi-circular outer wall, fought over by Welsh princes…
- Near Kidwelly
- Some walking
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Carved stone · Medieval
Kilberry Sculptured Stones
Argyll and Bute
The Kilberry Sculptured Stones preserve medieval cross-slabs and grave markers from a parish church destroyed in the 17th century, keeping a disper…
- Near Kilberry
- Easy path
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Fortified place · Medieval
Kilbolane Castle
County Cork
A moated Norman-style stronghold built centuries after the Normans themselves arrived, tying a Cloyne bishop's estate to Cromwellian destruction an…
- Near Kilworth
- Some walking
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Fortified place · Medieval
Kilcash Castle
County Tipperary
A ruined tower house beside a wrecked church and a Butler mausoleum, made famous not by battle but by an eighteenth-century Irish lament still sung…
- Near Clonmel
- Some walking
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Sacred place · Medieval
Kilchousland Chapel
Argyll and Bute
One of only a handful of Scottish chapels dedicated to St Constantine, a shadowy royal-saint whose cult is otherwise scarce in the historical record.
- Near Campbeltown
- Some walking
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Fortified place · Medieval
Kilchurn Castle
Argyll and Bute
On a rocky peninsula at the north-eastern end of Loch Awe, the ruined shell of Kilchurn Castle rises around a five-storey tower house first raised…
- Near Dalmally
- Some walking
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Fortified place · Medieval
Kilcoe Castle
County Cork
A West Cork tower house that fell last in Munster after Kinsale, then rose again under an actor's six-year restoration in ochre limewash.
- Near Schull
- Easy path
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Fortified place · Medieval
Kilcolman Castle
County Cork
A ruined tower house in the Cork countryside where a refugee English poet spent ten years writing the epic that shaped English literature, before w…
- Near Clonakilty
- Some walking
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Sacred place · Medieval
Kilconnell Abbey
County Galway
A ruined Franciscan house whose church and eastern convent range survived into the twentieth century almost intact, even though the community that…
- Near Ballinasloe
- Easy path
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Sacred place · Medieval
Kilcooly Abbey
County Tipperary
Its chancel (the eastern end of the church, holding the altar) holds the effigy tomb of knight Piers Fitz Oge Butler, carved with ten apostles by t…
- Near Thurles
- Easy path
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Fortified place · Medieval
Kilcrea Castle
County Cork
A fifteenth-century MacCarthy stronghold whose moat was later cut through by a Victorian railway line, its ruins now standing on a working cattle f…
- Near Cork
- Some walking
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Sacred place · Medieval
Kilcrea Friary
County Cork
Kilcrea preserves an unusually complete Franciscan friary (the base of a mendicant order, whose members worked in the streets rather than behind wa…
- Near Cork
- Some walking
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Sacred place · Medieval
Kildare Abbey
County Kildare
For centuries its abbess held a rank of honour acknowledged by every other abbess in Ireland, and its scribes and metalworkers produced manuscripts…
- Near Kildare
- Easy path
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Sacred place · Medieval
Kildermot Abbey
County Mayo
A ruined lakeside priory, a monastery headed by a prior and usually smaller than an abbey, a larger monastery, whose recovered holy water fonts are…
- Near Ballinrobe
- Rough ground
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Fortified place · Medieval
Kildrummy Castle
Aberdeenshire
A shield-shaped fortress whose sieges shaped a kingdom: from the capture and execution of Robert the Bruce's brother in 1306 to a countess's defian…
- Some walking
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Fortified place · Medieval
Kilgobbin Castle (Dublin)
County Dublin
A tower house built for a ten-pound bounty on the edge of the Pale, sacked within a generation, and left standing on only two of its four walls.
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Crossing or structure · Roman
Kilgram Bridge
North Yorkshire
A working medieval river crossing raised directly over a Roman ford, its six stone arches have carried travellers across the Ure for close to nine…
- Easy path
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Tomb or burial place · Prehistoric
Killaclohane Portal Tomb
County Kerry
A 13.5-tonne capstone raised on two portal stones nearly 6,000 years ago, holding cremation burials that span the Neolithic (the first farming age,…
- Near Dingle
- Some walking
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Fortified place · Medieval
Killahara Castle
County Tipperary
A single tower house carries the whole arc of Tipperary's post-medieval story: clan lordship, Cromwellian dispossession, famine eviction and a 1920…
- Near Thurles
- Easy path
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Sacred place · Medieval
Killarney Franciscan Friary
County Kerry
A working Franciscan house barely 160 years old that has trained novices from Ireland, Britain, Germany, Holland, Sweden and Canada, and still carr…
- Near Killarney
- Easy path
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Fortified place
Killeavy Castle
County Armagh
Killeavy is a nineteenth-century reinvention: George Papworth transformed a modest Foxall farmhouse into a towered Tudor-style country castle delib…
- Near Newry
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Fortified place · Medieval
Killeen Castle, Castlegar
County Galway
A working tower house of the Blakes, one of Galway's fourteen merchant tribes, still standing as a private home while the grander mansion built bes…
- Near Galway
- Easy path
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Fortified place · Medieval
Killeen Castle, Dunsany
County Meath
One family, Cusack then Plunkett by marriage, held this site for almost 800 years, from a Norman tower to the golf course that brought the Solheim…
- Near Dunsany
- Easy path
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Sacred place · Medieval
Killeshin Church
County Laois
The doorway inscription names Diarmait Mac Murchada, the Leinster king whose later appeal to Anglo-Norman lords would reshape Ireland's history.
- Near Carlow
- Easy path
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Sacred place · Prehistoric
Killin Stone Circle
Stirling
Six schist slabs in a flattened ring by Loch Tay, with three cupmarks ground into the top of the northernmost.
- Easy path
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Fortified place · Medieval
Killiney Castle
County Dublin
Five names in three centuries: Mount Malpas, Roxborough, Loftus Hill, Killiney Castle, Fitzpatrick Castle Hotel: track one building's slow slide fr…
- Near Killiney
- Easy path
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Fortified place · Medieval
Killua Castle
County Westmeath
A tower added on a whim of fashion in the 1820s still stands over an estate that once stretched to 9,000 acres, and a stone obelisk nearby claims t…
- Near Clonmellon
- Easy path
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Fortified place · Medieval
Killyleagh Castle
Down
Killyleagh unites a Strangford Lough stronghold with four centuries of Hamilton occupation, Civil War damage and Lanyon’s deliberately Loire-like n…
- Near Killyleagh
- Easy path
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Sacred place · Medieval
Kilmacduagh monastery
County Galway
A cathedral seat reduced to seven scattered ruins in a single field, crowned by a round tower that leans further from true than almost any other in…
- Near Gort
- Easy path
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Sacred place · Medieval
Ireland's Eye
County Dublin
Ireland’s Eye rewards the crossing with an unusually compact sequence: an early ecclesiastical enclosure, Napoleonic coastal defence, and protected…
- Near Howth
- Some walking
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Building or ruin · Medieval
Italian Chapel
Orkney Islands
Two Nissen huts, joined end to end, decorated by a prisoner of war who stayed behind after his comrades were freed in order to finish the work.
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Building or ruin · Roman
Jaw Hill
West Yorkshire
A square cropmark investigated in 1995 as a possible Roman marching camp, with post-holes showing a revetted defensive bank.
- Near Kirkhamgate
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Building or ruin · Roman
Jenny's Lantern
Northumberland
Jenny’s Lantern preserves a defended hilltop settlement from the centuries before Rome arrived, embedded in an unusually extensive settlement and f…
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Sacred place · Medieval
John's Lane Church
County Dublin
John’s Lane shows how a major Gothic-revival church reasserted an Augustinian presence on a site whose medieval predecessor had vanished in war.
- Near Dublin
- Easy path
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Fortified place · Medieval
Jordan's Castle
County Down
Jordan’s Castle is one of Ardglass’s clustered harbour tower houses, remembered for Simon Jordan’s prolonged defence during the Tyrone rebellion an…
- Near Ardglass
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Sacred place · Medieval
Kersal Priory
Greater Manchester
Kersal Priory represents a small Cluniac community whose medieval dependence, later independence and dissolution (Henry VIII's closure of the monas…
- Near Kersal
- Easy path
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Building or ruin · Roman
Keston Roman villa
Greater London
Keston Roman villa preserves a rare continuous settlement sequence from prehistory through Roman Britain into an early Saxon village, with its maus…
- Near Keston
- Some walking
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Sacred place · Medieval
Kilburn Priory
Greater London
Kilburn Priory began as a hermitage beside a stream and holy well, giving its name to modern Kilburn and preserving a small but formative strand of…
- Near Kilburn
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Fortified place · Medieval
Kilclief Castle
County Down
Kilclief Castle is Lecale’s earliest tower house, where unusual service turrets, machicolation (an opening in a parapet floor for dropping missiles…
- Near Kilclief
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Sacred place · Prehistoric
Kilcroagh, County Tyrone
County Tyrone
Kilcroagh combines a small Tyrone townland’s landscape history with the striking quartz White Stone, a scheduled monument (a site protected by law…
- Near Omagh
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Fortified place · Medieval
Kildare Castle
County Kildare
A single stone tower is all that still stands of the stronghold Strongbow raised over Kildare town in the twelfth century, at the start of the Angl…
- Near Kildare
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Fortified place · Medieval
Kildonan Dun
argyll-and-bute
Most duns are round. This one is D-shaped, and its double stair up the rampart and a round wall niche both survive intact.
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Fortified place · Medieval
Kilkenny Castle
County Kilkenny
Kilkenny Castle is the defining Norman and Butler landmark of the city: a thirteenth-century defensive stronghold repeatedly remade as a chateau, p…
- Near Kilkenny
- Easy path
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Sacred place · Medieval
Killagha Abbey
county-kerry
Killagha preserves the remains of a wealthy medieval religious community whose buildings later became a fortified home and then a burial ground.
- Near Castlemaine
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Sacred place · Medieval
Killashee Round Tower
County Kildare
Killashee’s small round tower preserves evidence of a monastery said to date to AD 454, later passed to the Knights Hospitaller and layered beneath…
- Near Naas
- Rough ground
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Fortified place · Medieval
Killowen Castle
County Londonderry
Killowen Castle preserves evidence for a lost medieval fortress on the Bann and the changing names of a Derry riverside district.
- Near Coleraine
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Fortified place · Medieval
Killymoon Castle
County Tyrone
Killymoon Castle is a Regency Gothic rebuilding by John Nash, set above the Ballinderry River in a designed woodland and parkland landscape.
- Near Cookstown
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Tomb or burial place · Prehistoric
Killynaght
County Tyrone
Killynaght pairs a named Tyrone townland with the Rocking Stone, a collapsed stone burial chamber protected as a Scheduled Historic Monument.
- Near Omagh
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