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TOUR TOUR TOUR www.northdowntourism.com brought to by Hamilton and 18 Kearney Village 28 Scrabo & The Men of Montgomery, including Rev Blair from BT22 1QQ Kearney is a fishing village Abbey. which is owned and maintained by BT23 4SJ The area around Scrabo was The voyage proved unsuccessful with the National Trust. Close by is a place quarried for many years and this began 1 fierce storms forcing the ship to return 2 called Newcastle which was the landing 3 with a family called the Andersons. The to Ulster. spot for Sir Thomas Smith, the English stone was renowned and used in many Each year the event forms part of the Secretary of State who was ordered by distant locations. 2 NORTH DOWN MUSEUM, local events programme at Cockle Row 13 Market Cross BT23 7HX Elizabeth I to try and establish the area. 25  Priory &

BANGOR CASTLE & Cottages, Cottages open weekends & Priory BT23 7NX Maypole 30 Town

19 BANGOR ABBEY from Easter - June and daily June - The Market Cross was built by Hugh Quintin Castle Priory corner of High Street and BT23 5DU The development of Down Co. in tours

Sept, 11-5pm. Montgomery and the design was based BT22 1QB Quintin Castle was owned Bangor Road, Holywood, BT18 9AB Comber meant a time of co-operation

Info: www.northdowntourism.com upon one which existed in Edinburgh. by the Savage family who came to The priory may date back as far as for James Hamilton and Hugh driving audio Ulster-Scots

The cross represented what the Ireland with DeCourcy. In 1629, James the 7th century with the current ruins Montgomery. The lands that they

5 BT21 0DG town stood for – progress, trade and Montgomery, son of Hugh bought the essentially of an early 13th century owned bordered and a church had to enlightening Three p Having advertised the availability of development. The Priory, although castle from the Savage family and church with a 15th century addition to be constructed for the local settlers Ma land in North Down and to his now in ruins is half of its original size. It leased it to the Smith family. the west end. so agreement and compromise was

wider family circle and other Scottish became the centre of the Montgomery In 1572 Holywood was one of a number needed.

people, Hugh Montgomery led the first empire and Sir Hugh built his home here 20 Windmill Hill of churches burned by Brian O’Neill to

settlers from Portpatrick in Scotland surrounded by a “bawn” or low wall. BT22 1RH The windmill was first built stop them from being occupied by the 31 Hamilton’s New Comber

to Donaghadee in 1606 to begin their in 1771 by the Savage family but was forces of the Crown under Elizabeth I. BT23 5SR James Hamilton built and s settlement. 15 WhiteChurch & destroyed on Christmas Day 1878. It was not until the early 17th century established a settlement called New Tour Bangor Castle & North BT22 2JY Holywood came into the possession of Comber which was located close to the

Down Museum 6 Templepatrick Ballywalter was part of Hamilton’s James Hamilton, and the Priory was Ballydrain Road.

Castle Park Avenue, Bangor, Graveyard BT21 0LN territory and was described as “a port reinstated with the site of the pre-

BT20 4BT Local tradition suggests that St Patrick for unloading all manner of goods.“ Reformation church continuing use into 32  Church & Castle T: 028 9127 0371 landed in Ireland at Templepatrick near Whitechurch was the parish of James the seventeenth century. Graveyard g rivin Museum T: 028 9127 1200 Donaghadee. Indeed the Montgomery Hamilton, nephew of the first settler In 1615 the first Protestant minister, BT23 6AG The church and its graveyard D www.northdowntourism.com manuscripts record that the Scots James Hamilton. Robert Cunningham, was appointed to have connections to the Daft Eddy Built close to the site of James settlers were told by the native Irish Holywood with most of his congregation story which tells of the smuggling trade Hamilton’s original home, the present that this was in fact the case. settlers from Scotland. He was in the area. It is claimed that Daft Eddy Castle was built in 1852 by Robert also onboard the Eagle Wing which was buried in this graveyard although Edward Ward, a descendant of 7 BT22 2HR attempted to sail to the United States the grave is unmarked. Hamilton. Recognised as a coastal village, Millisle in 1636. The castle’s “Victorian Walled Garden” also has strong connections to India. It 33 Sketrick Castle & The is also open to the public, April – was the birthplace of Amy Carmichael, Smugglers of Down September. born in 1867 who became a missionary BT23 6QH The Castle was just one of Attached to Bangor Castle, North in India, following her early experiences several castles in the area owned by Down Museum contains a number of working with the “shawlies” or mill girls in the Savage family. The family had to important Ulster-Scots artefacts. In . Amy dedicated her life to saving use Sketrick as their base when their particular, the original 1625 Thomas young girls from prostitution and was castle at Ardkeen was taken over by Raven maps of James Hamilton’s the founder of the Dohnavur fellowship the English forces under Thomas Smith. estate. The museum also houses which still continues to this day. exhibits on the area, a restaurant and 34  Parish

coffee shop. 8 Ballycopeland Windmill Church BT22 2DS The mill, a focal point on the BT23 6PP Rev Michael Bruce was Down North and

Bangor Abbey Millisle landscape was built in the late installed as minister of the parish but Abbey Street and Road, 1700’s. It has been restored and can be was removed by the Bishop of Down Ards the in Ulster-Scots Discover BT20 4JE accessed during the summer. and Connor as he would not reform. T: 028 9145 1087 At one point there were over 50 He went on the run and was captured www.bangorabbey.org working mills in the area. in Scotland and threatened with exile One of the first Ulster-Scots Churches to Tangier. By a twist of fate, his wife and still in use today its Ulster-Scots 9 Dillon’s Pub & Betsy intervened and he was exiled back to connections include acting as a hiding Gray’s Cottage BT19 7QF Killinchy! place for Con O’Neill after breaking free Betsy Gray is the heroine of the story from Castle, John Gibson “Betsy Gray and the Hearts of Down” 35  Castle and A2 4 the first Protestant minister in Bangor which was written and serialised by WF Church CopeLand Bangor 3 ISLandS

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1 2 3 Tower House remove English control from Irish affairs powerbase for James Hamilton. It A 5 34 Quay Street, Bangor, BT20 5ED and was supported by over 100,000 Holywood Maypole is illustrated in the Raven maps and 25 Holywood 26 Donaghadee 9 T: 028 9127 0069 Catholics, Protestants and Dissenters. BT18 9AB At the intersection of High depicted as a single tower attached to 6 www.northdowntourism.com Street and Shore Street, Holywood a residence. A48 10 Movilla Graveyard 21 Abbacy Road & Ardquin Maypole is the only one of its kind in St Johns was built 27 8 7 BT23 8HH Movilla Abbey was founded Parish Ireland. It features on Thomas Raven’s in the 1640’s, with repairs and work 10 in 540AD by Finian who was a student BT22 1HJ Long before Hamilton and 1625 map and may have been erected undertaken again in the early 1800’s A20 to Belfast 28 Newtownards 11 A2 of St Patrick. It has seen many different Montgomery came to the area, King by English settlers arriving in the early using a loan. visitors over the years including the James decided to hold a survey of 1600’s. 14 36 13 Vikings and the Augustinians and the all the land and property in the area. It has been replaced several times sunset over Killyleagh A48 graveyard is still in use. 17 Kirkistown Castle The meeting was held here and lasted with one story detailing Dutch sailors This is a chance to rest and reflect on BT22 1JB Kirkistown Castle was home for over five days. There is a detailed donating the mast of their ship, which the tour and listen to a poem written by 29 15 11 Newtownards Town to the Savage, or originally Le Sauvage, record of all those who attended. had run aground off Holywood, as George Francis Savage Armstrong as A21 Hall BT23 4DB family who came to the area in 1177AD thanks to the locals for their rescue. included in the Ballads of Co. Down. 30 Comber Ballywalter 23 B5 The Tower dates to 1637 and was The Town Hall was built in 1771 and has with John de Courcy. In addition to 22 Kircubbin Presbyterian 31 Lough built in a Scottish Baronial style, under had many changes of both use and Kirkistown, the family also owned Church Hamilton, it is the only building of its appearance over the years. It was built Quintin, and Sketrick Castles. BT22 2SP Rev Archibald Warwick, IrISh Sea

A21 32 type in an urban area. by Alexander Stuart, First Marquis of Kirkistown was built in the style of an minister of the church was executed in A2 The building highlights the need that the Londonderry and was centred on a English Tower House. front of his congregation on 15 October 17th Century Scottish settlers had for piazza like Square. 1798 for his participation in the rebellion. secure buildings. It is believed that there 33 Kircubbin were originally not one, but two watch 23 Greyabbey 22

towers, however by 1744 only one BT22 2NQ The abbey is 12th century A21 B173 Killinchy 34 stood. It is likely a beacon would have in origin and was one of the buildings 16

been lit here for the benefit of ships. destroyed by Brian O’Neill in his attempt A20 During its lifetime the building has been to stop any English settlements in 26 Cairn Wood Walk A22 used, amongst others, as a boarding the area. Hugh Montgomery began a BT23 4TG This walk through the school for girls, hot seawater baths and programme of restoration in 1626 and beautiful Cairn Wood Forest and since 1983 a Tourist Information Centre the abbey remained as parish church in Craigantlet Summit lead you to and council offices. the area until 1778. spectacular viewpoints overlooking 17 Belfast Lough and Strangford. Killyleagh

4 Groomsport Harbour It offers a complete view of the 21 A2 Driving Routes B7 35 Groomsport, Main Street, BT19 1RN estates that once belonged to 36 It was from here in 1636 that the For more information on things to see and do in Ards and North Down please contact: Hamilton and Montgomery. There are three tours to 18 Eagle Wing sailed. The first emigrant follow (see large map on the ship to leave Ulster for America Ards Tourist Information Centre Bangor Tourist Information 27 Blackwood Curling reverse) but the scale of the 20 Portaferry and commissioned by four of the ✆ 028 9182 6846 Centre Rink BT23 4TJ area means that you can (Ferry) 19 Presbyterian ministers who had been  ✆ The Blackwood family set up their easily accommodate all sites, [email protected] 028 9127 0069 or switch between trails, as Strangford own curling club which was located A267 www.visitstrangfordlough.co.uk  [email protected] you wish. Some sites are not facebook.com/VisitStrangfordLough www.northdowntourism.com at Kiltonga. With the Scots influence open to the public, but can twitter.com/VisitStrangford in the area, curling was played as be viewed at a distance, and Some Postcodes are approximate only. a sport especially during the very time has eroded the physical This publication is available in alternative formats or languages where Download the free ‘Discover Ulster-Scots in the Ards and North Down’ app from the iTunes harsh winters of the early 1860’s. presence of a few sites. App Store and Google Play a need is identified. All information correct at time of print. | | | | approx. 5 miles