PLANTATION 1600 - 1714

Renaissance Architecture

‘It is one thing to adopt the features of a foreign building style but quite another fully to understand the principles which lie behind the style. From the architect the renaissance demanded a new sense of organisation which the natural development of the medieval tradition apparently lacked. Balance, harmony, and the use of antique classical orders which embodied these qualities became the hallmarks of a new style of Ulster building…This [castle] was built in the seventeenth century as a Scottish high house with one flanking circular turret. In 1666 …a second turret [was added] to the right end of the façade and …the door [was moved] into the middle of what then became a more-or-less symmetrical composition…. In front stretches a great bawn enclosed by a high battlemented wall with flankers..’ Dixon H. An Introduction to Ulster Architecture