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Rating: 5 | Votes: 1 | Date: 10/07/2026 23:13:00

On the slopes of Cave Hill, 120 metres above the city and overlooking Belfast Lough, this Scottish Baronial mansion replaced two earlier castles that the Chichester family had occupied since the late twelfth century. The first was a Norman fortification in the city centre; the second, built by Sir Arthur Chichester in 1611, burned to the ground in 1708 and was never rebuilt. When the 3rd Marquess of Donegall decided in 1862 to construct a new residence within his deer park, he commissioned the f...