The building is a three-storey tower house, built in 1622 by Roland Savage, a Norman landlord,[1] at the site of a ninth-century round tower. It was occupied until 1731, when it was deserted.
Structure
The house post-dates the Plantation, but is fully in the late medieval tower-house tradition. Parts of the bawn wall survive with three-quarter round flanker towers at the angles. The tower was remodelled in Gothic style in 1800 by a Col. Johnston, and in 1836 some further work was performed by a very young Master Montgomery of Grey Abbey. The building was left, however, with a partial roof and broken windows, and the elements soon returned it to disrepair.[2]
^"The Parish of Ardkeen". Ros Davies' Co. Down, Northern Ireland Genealogy Website. Archived from the original on 25 January 2016. Retrieved 6 November 2008.
