Ballinshoe Tower

Ballinshoe Tower is a ruins in Angus, North East Scotland, Scotland. Ballinshoe Tower is situated nearby to the town Kirriemuir, as well as near the lake Loch of Forfar.

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Kirriemuir Gateway to the Glens Museum and Loch of Forfar.

Kirriemuir Gateway to the Glens Museum

Museum

Photo: G Laird, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Kirriemuir Gateway to the Glens Museum is situated 2 miles west of Ballinshoe Tower.

Loch of Forfar

Lake

Photo: Karen Vernon, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Loch of Forfar is a freshwater loch lying on the western side of the town of Forfar, Scotland. The loch trends in an east to west direction and is approximately 1 mi in length. Loch of Forfar is situated 2 miles southeast of Ballinshoe Tower.

Tayside Police Museum

Museum

Photo: Trish Steel, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Tayside Police Museum is situated 2 miles west of Ballinshoe Tower.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Kirriemuir and Forfar.

Kirriemuir

Town

Photo: Nick, CC BY-SA 3.0.

Kirriemuir, sometimes called Kirrie or the Wee Red Toon, is a historic market town and burgh in Angus, Scotland. It is approximately 50 miles north of Edinburgh, 73 miles northeast of Glasgow, and 14 miles north of Dundee. Kirriemuir is situated 2 miles west of Ballinshoe Tower.

Forfar

Photo: LeCardinal, CC BY-SA 3.0.

Forfar is the county town of Angus, 13 miles north of Dundee, with a population in 2022 of 15,700. Its main attractions are Glamis Castle, and the fine Pictish stones here and at Meigle and Aberlemno.

Douglastown

Village

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Douglastown is a hamlet in Kinnettles in Angus, Scotland, three miles south-west of Forfar. It takes its name from the landowner who in about 1789 provided land for James Ivory & Co. to build a flax mill to spin yarn for heavy linen cloth called osnaburgs (named from the German town of Osnabrück, where it was originally made. Douglastown is situated 3½ miles south of Ballinshoe Tower.

Ballinshoe Tower

Type: Ruins
Also known as: “Ballinshoe Castle”
Categories: tower, building, and historic site
Location: Angus, North East Scotland, Scotland, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude

56.66655° or 56° 39′ 60″ north

Longitude

-2.95266° or 2° 57′ 10″ west

Open location code

9C8VM28W+JW

OpenStreetMap ID

way 590276556

OpenStreetMap feature

building=ruins

OpenStreetMap feature

historic=yes

OpenStreetMap feature

man_made=tower

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