Scrabo Tower topographic map

Name: Scrabo Tower topographic map, elevation, terrain.

Location: Scrabo Tower, Scrabo Road, Newtownards, County Down, Northern Ireland, BT23 4XP, United Kingdom (54.58021 -5.71562 54.58032 -5.71545)

Average elevation: 39 m

Minimum elevation: -1 m

Maximum elevation: 159 m

The tower's style is called Scottish Baronial by most recent authors.: "... mysteriously designed in the Scottish baronial style ..." The article in the Illustrated London News of 1857 says "... in the style of a Scottish chateau ...", whereas the article in the Dublin Builder of 1865 calls it "Scotch baronial". Its height is 135 feet (41 m) as can be confirmed by measuring the scaled elevation drawing in Howley (1993). However, heights of 125 feet and 195 feet have been given.