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Helen's Tower is a mid 19th-century Scottish-baronial style memorial tower, located in Tower Hill Wood in the Clandeboye Estate, County Down. It is within the townland of Conlig, in the civil parish of Bangor. It was built in 1848 to designs by William Burn by Frederick Temple Blackwood (5th Lord Dufferin and Claneboye) and named in honour of his mother, the songwriter, playwright and poet Helen Selina Blackwood. Dufferin intended the tower as a lookout but also as a shrine for a poem that his mother wrote for him on the eve of his 21st birthday. Dufferin asked several poets to write poems about her and the tower, the best known of these being Lord Tennyson's 'Helen's Tower'. Some of the poems were engraved on metallic plates and are displayed in the tower's upper room. The tower is within the council area of Ards and North Down.
Historic Buildings Ref: HB23/06/009
Place Type: 19th-century Monument
Historic County: Down
Lat, Long: 54.622684,-5.694664
Grid Reference: J 4894 7738
Townland: Conlig TD
Civil Parish: Bangor CP
Council Area: Ards and North Down CA
Police Area: Northern Ireland PA
Devolved Legislature: Northern Ireland Assembly
GBPN ID: 332606
Entry Type: Main listing (P)
URL: https://gazetteer.org.uk/place/Helen's_Tower,_Down_332606
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Historic Buildings Ref: HB23/06/009
Place Type: 19th-century Monument
Historic County: Down
Lat, Long: 54.622684,-5.694664
Grid Reference: J 4894 7738
Townland: Conlig TD
Civil Parish: Bangor CP
Council Area: Ards and North Down CA
Police Area: Northern Ireland PA
Devolved Legislature: Northern Ireland Assembly
GBPN ID: 332606
Entry Type: Main listing (P)
URL: https://gazetteer.org.uk/place/Helen's_Tower,_Down_332606
Peruse Down on Wikishire