Quoile Castle
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Quoile Castle is a castle situated near Downpatrick, County Down, Northern Ireland, just off the main road from Downpatrick to Strangford. It is a 16th century Tower house which was inhabited into the 18th century. One corner of the building has fallen down and shows a cross-section of the castle. In the north east wall the doorway has been rebuilt and gives access to a straight mural stairway. This is protected by murder-holes at the bottom and at the top. The inner doorway at the ground floor opens into a chamber with a stone vault and many small gun-loops. Beyond this is a second similar chamber. The first floor has two rooms and one of them has a fireplace. The second floor is reached by another straight stairway within the north west wall. There is another fireplace at this level.
