Low Rock Castle
Low Rock Castle was a listed building in Portstewart in County Londonderry, Northern Ireland.
History[edit]
The house, which was originally battlemented, was completed around 1820.[1] In 1835 it became the birthplace of Field Marshal Sir George White VC, who commanded the garrison at the Siege of Ladysmith during the Second Boer War.[2]
It was demolished without permission in 2001 during the construction of a block of apartments that now occupy the site.[3]
References[edit]
- ^ Hughes, p. 461
- ^ Durand, p. 9
- ^ "HB03/08/005". Buildings Database. Department for Communities (NI). Retrieved 13 June 2023.
Sources[edit]
- Durand, Henry Mortimer (1915). The life of Field-Marshal Sir George White, V.C. Edinburgh, London: W. Blackwood. ISBN 978-1177733694.
- Hughes, L (1990). Sophia: Regent of Russia, 1657-1704. Yale University Press. ISBN 978-0300047905.