202 STATISTICAL SURVEY 



SECT. 15. Account of Towers, Ca/lles, Mono/ler'tu^ 

 Ancient buildings t or places remarkable for any hifto~. 

 ricol event. 



I DO not recolleft having met a round tower in the 

 county, or any remains of one ; and although round 

 towers are peculiar to many parts of the kingdom, yet 

 very few of them are to be met with in the North. 



Old caftles are numerous, but in general they appear 

 to have never been of much confequence, or of any 



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confiderable ftrength ; many of them, however, are 

 partly compofed of a very ftrong cement, and almofl 

 impoflible to reduce, even with gun-powder. 



The following are the moft confiderable in the 

 county. 



One in the town of Newtown-flewart, but not very 

 ancient. Another near the town, circularly built, and 

 of great antiquity. This, we are informed, had been 

 the refidence of the kings of Ulfter. Part of this old 

 caftle projects eight feet beyond its bafe, and ha$ the 

 appearance of being fufpended in the air, fo great is the 

 ftrength of the cement, which keeps the flones to- 

 gether. 



At Baron's-court, near Newtown-ftewart, is an o!4 

 caftle, liinilar to that in the town, and it appears to be of 



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