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Dunluce Town

Dunluce, County Antrim

A lost 17th-century town beside a clifftop castle.

In the early 1600s a planned town of houses and shops grew up beside Dunluce Castle. In 1641, during a great rebellion, it was burned, and it was never rebuilt.

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When
Burned 1641
Where
55.2090, -6.5800
Group
Lost & drowned villages

Visiting

The excavated area is beside Dunluce Castle, which is open daily.

Cover of The Ledger of Lost Britain by Cale Mills
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The Ledger of Lost Britain

The Romans arrived in AD 43. For most people that is where the history of Britain begins. But by the time the legions landed, people had already been living on these islands for thousands of years. They had hunted, farmed, mined flint, dragged stones across the country, raised a hill by hand, and buried their dead in great tombs. They left no written words. What they left was the ground itself. Every place in this book can be visited, or has been dug up, or is in a museum.

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