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Extract from the Newtownstewart and Sion Mills Travel Guides:
A quick route north from Omagh passes through rich farmland to
NEWTOWNSTEWART
which, surprisingly for its size, boasts remnants of two
castles
. In the main street a gable wall is all that remains of the Stewart castle burned down on the orders of James II; squatting in isolation on a hill to the southwest are the ruins of the fourteenth-century Harry Avery's castle, another O'Neill stronghold. But Newtownstewart's real draw is the gem of a
museum
that's housed in the tiny
tourist office
(May-Sept Tues-Fri 11am-4pm, Sat 11.30am-5pm, Sun 2-5pm; tel 028/8166 2414; 1.20) a couple of...
read the whole Newtownstewart and Sion Mills Travel Guides...
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