Low Rock Castle
Low Rock Castle was a listed building in Portstewart in County Londonderry.
Low Rock Castle, Portstewart in 1906
History
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]
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References
- Hughes, p. 461
- Durand, p. 9
Sources
- 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.
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