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Dunluce Castle

Dunluce Castle is a medieval coastal castle on a narrow basalt promontory on the Antrim coast of Northern Ireland. Now a ruin, it sits on sheer cliffs above the Atlantic and was historically associated with the MacQuillan and later the MacDonnell families. The site includes the castle ruins and the adjacent early-17th-century town remains.

Photograph via Wikimedia Commons

Its prime

1613

Today

Ruin

As it stood in 1613

The shape it held in its prime.

Perched on a narrow basalt promontory above the Atlantic, the castle has two large round drum towers on its eastern side linked by thick grey-stone curtain walls; a gabled residential range with high triangular stone end-walls and a chimney stack rises behind the walls. The curtain walls show regularly spaced rectangular window openings and wall-walks; sheer cliffs drop to the sea on both sides and a narrow bridge-causeway connects the promontory to the mainland.

Step inside

8 places to explore in 1613.

The record describes 8 distinct spots at Dunluce Castle — including 2 interiors: gatehouse passage and embrasures, gabled residential range (principal hall). Create your own photoreal reconstruction and walk through every one — more scenes means more photos, more angles and more rooms of the immersive experience.

Mainland approach and bridgeGatehouse passage and embrasuresTop of the eastern drum towersCurtain wall and battlement walkGabled residential range (principal hall)Inner courtyard (ward)Sea-facing battlements and cliff edgeStreet of the adjacent early-17th-century town

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See Dunluce Castle with the fires lit.

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