Stewart Castle
Stewart Castle near Newtownstewart in County Tyrone, Northern Ireland, is a ruined plantation-era tower house associated with the Stewart family, Scottish settlers who established themselves in this part of Tyrone during the Plantation of Ulster in the early seventeenth century. The castle occupies a position in the Strule valley in the foothills of the Sperrins, the long mountain range that forms the backbone of central Ulster and provides some of the finest upland walking in Northern Ireland. The town of Newtownstewart was planted by the Stewarts and retains its plantation town character in its street layout and the various stone buildings of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, providing one of the more coherent examples of a plantation settlement in County Tyrone.