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Extract from the Ardglass Travel Guides:
ARDGLASS
is set on the side of a lovely natural inlet. Its domestic buildings, rising steeply from the harbour (
ard glas
in Irish means "the green height"), are interspersed with seven fortified mansions, towers and turrets. These date from a vigorous English revival in the sixteenth century, when a trading company first arrived to found a colony here. The best preserved of the fortifications, and the only one open for visits, is
Jordan's Castle
, next door to the
Anchor
pub on the Low Rd (July & Aug Tues-Sat 10am-6pm, Sun 2-6pm; 75p). The most elegant and highly developed...
read the whole Ardglass Travel Guides...
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