Episode Six in a series of 360° videos around the Ards Peninsula & North Down is from Ardkeen, a townland on the Strangford Lough side of the Peninsula.
In this episode you find yourself on one of the highest drumlins of the Ards Peninsula at Ardkeen – once home to a Norman fortification. Here, as you take in the beautiful views, you will hear about George Francis Savage Armstrong, a scholar and writer who published Ballads of Down in 1901 – a local collection which includes many poems written in the Ulster-Scots vernacular of the area. On the southern slope of the drumlin, a ruined kirkyard is the setting for one of GFSA’s most atmospheric pieces – The Haunted Hill.
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Episode Six in a series of 360° videos around the Ards Peninsula & North Down is from Ardkeen, a townland on the Strangford Lough side of the Peninsula.
In this episode you find yourself on one of the highest drumlins of the Ards Peninsula at Ardkeen – once home to a Norman fortification. Here, as you take in the beautiful views, you will hear about George Francis Savage Armstrong, a scholar and writer who published Ballads of Down in 1901 – a local collection which includes many poems written in the Ulster-Scots vernacular of the area. On the southern slope of the drumlin, a ruined kirkyard is the setting for one of GFSA’s most atmospheric pieces – The Haunted Hill.
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