Bright future secured for Hillsborough Castle
Historic Royal Palaces will soon take over the management of Hillsborough Castle from the NIO
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The Northern Ireland Office and Historic Royal Palaces are pleased to announce that they have today signed a contract confirming that Historic Royal Palaces will take over responsibility for management and presentation of Hillsborough Castle as planned, with effect from 1 April 2014.
For further information on this new chapter for Hillsborough Castle, see our previous announcement.
A selection of photos of Hillsborough Castle is freely available for download from the NIO Flickr site.