Yes they've been wrongly tagged as Peel Houses but they aren't Peel Houses and built at different times, they are fortified houses built by families and tell a lot about a particular family at a particular time. Peel houses had a Fire tower for signalling to other Peel towers, fortified Irish houses didn't.. they were just fortified houses. .. bit like calling a Cromwellian Fort a lighthouses. One can call them Peel towers if they want but they simply weren't Peel towers! Peel towers were a chain of towers while the Irish fortified houses were just individual fortified houses. DH On 08/03/2015 22:41, Dee via wrote: > Hi Shirley and Dave, > > Just searched online and found the fortified Irish houses called peel > towers. These are very different to the wonderfully evocative round towers > of the ancient monasteries as at Glendalough and other sites. Shirley, when > I answered your mail I believed you referred to the latter, not the former. > > Must admit I, too, had never heard the fortified houses called peel towers > before, somewhat differing from the more-familiar Scottish version. > > Dee.