Helen's Tower is a 19th-century folly and lookout tower near Bangor, County Down, Northern Ireland. It was built by the 5th Baron of Dufferin and Claneboye and named for his mother, Helen.
The tower is a fine example of Scottish Baronial architecture.
Lord Dufferin intended it as a shrine for poems, first of all a poem by his mother and then other poems that he solicited from famous poets over the years. Tennyson's Helen's Tower is the best known of them and reads:
Helen's Tower, here I stand,
Dominant over sea and land.
Son’s love built me, and I hold
Mother’s love in lettered gold.
Love is in and out of time,
I am mortal stone and lime.
Would my granite girth were strong
As either love, to last as long
I should wear my crown entire
To and thro’ the Doomsday fire,
And be found of angel eyes
In earth’s recurring Paradise
Helen's Tower stands on the top of a wooded hill between Bangor and Newtownards, County Down, Northern Ireland. This hill rises to a height of about 130 metres (430 ft) above mean sea level and forms the highest point of the Clandeboye Estate.
A close replica of Helen's Tower, the Ulster Tower, was built at Thiepval, Somme Department, France, in 1921 as a memorial to the men of the 36th (Ulster) Division who fell in the battle. Parts of the division trained at Clandeboye before being sent to the front to fight in the Battle of the Somme.
In 1975 Helen's Tower was listed as a Grade A historic building. After a period of neglect, it was restored in the 1980s and can now be rented as holiday accommodation from the Irish Landmark Trust.
The tower has been manually recreated from various photos and videos from the internet. It comes with its own POI.
This mod is not intended for sale or resale.
Complementary mods:
-Donaghadee Lighthouse and The Moat: https://flightsim.to/file/13640/donaghadee-lighthouse-and-the-moat
-Stormont: https://flightsim.to/file/14135/stormont-houses-of-parliament-castle-and-other-landmarks
-Scrabo Tower: https://flightsim.to/file/8313/scrabo-tower
-Saint John's Point Lighthouse (County Down): https://flightsim.to/file/14475/saint-john-s-point-lighthouse-county-down
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