'The Tower', Hilltown Road, Aghacullion, near Bryansford, Newcastle, Co Down

Prominent gothick tower, one of a series of follies constructed by the 2nd Lord Limerick c.1780 to adorn his Tollymore Park estate and the surrounding area. The tower is set next to a low field wall on the N side of the Hilltown Road, W of Bryansford village, with the tower itself located roughly a mile W of the village. The structure is in fieldstone rubble, but appears to have been completely harled. It is hexagonal and rests upon a circular base every second face has a pointed arch, window sized, recess with quatrefoil ‘loopholes’ to the other faces. The arch heads of the recesses are granite dressed as are the loopholes. To the E the recess is door sized and is reached by a flight of stone steps. The top of the steps continues around the structure as a plat band. The tower has a cornice supported on intermediate and corner rounded corbel stones, and is crowned with split fieldstones, also set at each corner. The tower is topped by a narrow conical spire with three rings of rounded ‘bap’ stones set at intervals along its length.