An appeal has been made to Stormont to fund the 400th anniversary of Kirkistown castle on the Ards Peninsula castle this year.
Elected members at a Ards and North Down Council committee agreed to task council officers to work with the Historic Monuments Division at the Department for Communities, as well as with local community groups and schools, to deliver a community programme of events marking an important milestone in the history of the area.
Kirkistown Castle, a three-storey late medieval tower house near Cloughey, was built in 1622 by Roland Savage, a Norman landlord, at the site of a ninth-century round tower, and was occupied until 1731 when it was deserted.
