J4772 : Flowering whins below Scrabo Tower

taken 7 years ago, near to Newtownards, Co Down, Northern Ireland

Flowering whins below Scrabo Tower
Flowering whins below Scrabo Tower
The base of the tower is visible on the left. Other tracts of flowering whins can be seen on the periphery of Newtownards Aerodrome.
Scrabo Tower near Newtownards

Designed by Charles Laynon, the tower was built in 1857 as a memorial to Charles Stewart, 3rd Marquess of Londonderry, who died in 1854.

The design for the tower was held as a competition, with a strict limit of cost set at £2000. Lanyon's effort only came fourth in the competition but his design was chosen as it fell within the required budget - in actual fact the 135 foot tower was to cost £3010 to complete.

The foundation stone was laid on March 6th 1857 in an elaborate ceremony attended by the new Marquess and Marchioness, the Bishop of Down and many of the county's gentry, preceded to the top of the hill by the Marquess's Highland piper. A jar was cemented into the foundations containing an inscribed scroll to the late Marquess, copies of local and national newspapers of the day, an Ordnance Survey map of County Down, coins of the realm and a list of 600 subscribers who contributed towards the cost of the tower - the list was headed by the Emperor Napoleon III of France.

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Date Taken
Saturday, 22 April, 2017   (more nearby)
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Saturday, 20 May, 2017
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Heath, Scrub 
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Irish: geotagged! J 477 726 [100m precision]
WGS84: 54:34.8037N 5:42.9005W
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Irish: geotagged! J 477 726
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East-southeast (about 112 degrees)
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