Scrabo Tower is a 135 feet (41 m) high 19th-century lookout tower or folly that stands on Scrabo Hill near Newtownards in County Down, Northern Ireland...
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Newtownards (section Scrabo Tower)
is overlooked by the 100-foot (30 m) high Scrabo Tower. The tower is 41 metres high, and was erected on Scrabo Hill as a memorial to Charles Stewart, 3rd...
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tower is mentioned in Thomas Hardy's poem "Channel Firing" (written in April 1914) as a place "far inland". Scrabo Tower, County Down "Alfred's Tower...
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Rostrevor at the base of the Mourne Mountains Portstewart Strand Scrabo Tower and Scrabo Country Park Tollymore Forest Park Cathedral of SS Patrick & Colman...
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Grand Opera House, Belfast Belfast Castle Necarne, County Fermanagh Scrabo Tower, Belfast Campbell College, Belfast Old Bushmills Distillery, County Antrim...
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rock on which Stirling Castle stands "Scrabo Hill" in Newtownards, Northern Ireland, site of the Scrabo Tower Ailsa Craig, famous for curling stone mining...
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settled Scottish Protestants there as part of the Plantation of Ulster. Scrabo Tower overlooks Newtownards and the northern end of the Ards Peninsula. Mount...
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round bows and typically lacked mullions. The style drew on tower houses and peel towers, retaining many of their external features. French Renaissance...
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the Barons and Marquesses of Dufferin. A similar but higher landmark, Scrabo Tower, built by the Londonderrys, stands on the next hill to the south. The...
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honeymooned there. Tollymore Forest Park between Castlewellan and Newcastle. Scrabo Tower, in Newtownards, was built as a memorial to Charles Stewart, 3rd Marquess...
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