1611 – North Gate, Carrickfergus, Co. Antrim
Lord Deputy Sir Arthur Chichester enclosed Carrickfergus with stone walls from 1611 onwards and more than half the circuit is still visible,
Lord Deputy Sir Arthur Chichester enclosed Carrickfergus with stone walls from 1611 onwards and more than half the circuit is still visible,
Originally, like Northgate, the site of a wooden drawbridge.
The gateway building contained a prison in its upper stories.
This is the third gate on this site in the town walls and was completed in 1777.
The present Bishop Gate was built in 1789 as a triumphal arch to mark the first centenary of the closing of the gates by The Apprentice Boys of Derry.
Former gateway through the city walls. One of the only three city gates that remain today of the original walls of Seville,
The former Walker’s Pillar was a memorial to Rev.
Castellated gateway constructed in 1831 to replace an earlier and by then ruinous gate.
The Citadel and walls, built to protect the city,
The site of one of the four original gateways;