McKee Clock
The McKee Clock is a clock tower in the City of Bangor, Northern Ireland. Situated at the foot of High Street in the marina's sunken gardens in an area known as the "McKee Clock Arena", the clock is named for its benefactor James McKee, a local rates collector who donated £200 towards its construction.Photo: MartinRobinson, CC BY-SA 3.0.
- Type: Monument
- Description: Monument in Ireland
- Inscription: “8 July 1915. This stone records the appreciation of the Bangor Urban District Council for the generous gift of this clock to his native town by James McKee. The above James McKee died on 28th April 1919”
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Bangor Bus and Rail Centre and Bangor Lifeboat Station.
Bangor Bus and Rail Centre
Railway station
Photo: Aubrey Dale, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Bangor Bus and Rail Centre is a combined rail and bus interchange which serves the city of Bangor in County Down, Northern Ireland. The station in its current form was built in the year 2000 to celebrate the new millennium. Bangor Bus and Rail Centre is situated 2,000 feet southwest of McKee Clock.
Bangor Lifeboat Station
Building
Photo: Ross, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Bangor Lifeboat Station is located at Sea Cliff Road, Bangor, a city located at the top of the Ards Peninsula, overlooking Belfast Lough, 13 miles north-east of Belfast, in County Down, Northern Ireland. Bangor Lifeboat Station is situated 770 feet north of McKee Clock.
Ward Park
Park
Photo: Ross, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Ward Park is situated in Bangor, County Down, Northern Ireland. The 37-acre park contains 10 tennis courts, a duck pond and a selection of wildfowl housed in breeding pens. Ward Park is situated 2,600 feet southeast of McKee Clock.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Bangor and Kilcooley estate.
Bangor
Photo: P.khiao, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Bangor is a town on the south shore of Belfast Lough, in County Down. It was a holiday resort from the mid-19th to the mid-20th century but is now chiefly a commuter town for Belfast. In 2021 it had a population of 64,000.
Kilcooley estate
Suburb
Kilcooley estate is a housing estate owned by the Northern Ireland Housing Executive on the outskirts of Bangor, Northern Ireland. The residents of the area are predominantly Protestant, and the area has strong links with loyalism. Kilcooley estate is situated 1½ miles southwest of McKee Clock.
Newtownards
Photo: Guliolopez, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Newtownards is a town at the head of Strangford Lough, historically in County Down, with a population in 2021 of 29,600. The counties of Northern Ireland are no longer units of governance so since 2015 the town has been part of Ards and North Down "super-district".
McKee Clock
- Categories: clock tower and historic site
- Location: Ards and North Down, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
54.66364° or 54° 39′ 49″ northLongitude
-5.66789° or 5° 40′ 4″ westOpen location code
9C6PM87J+FROpenStreetMap ID
node 7038768233OpenStreetMap feature
historic=monumentWikidata ID
Q6801730
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In Other Languages
“McKee Clock” goes by many names.
- Spanish: “Torre del Reloj McKee”
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