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The remote, rugged, rough country of North West Ulster posseses buildings as varied as its landscape. From its earliest centuries survive monuments of the Celtic church, in particular the sculptured cross slabs, high
crosses and round towers, and remains of medieval tower houses. Fortified buildings from the
17th-century Plantation give way to the houses of a prosperous gentry of the less turbulent 18th
century. The simplicity of Springhill, the riotous detail of Florence Court and the monumental
classicism of Wyatt's Castle Coole demonstrate the range of domestic building in this period.
Less known are the 19th century railway stations, banks and factories. Churches are numerous
and varied; from the primitive Protestant churches of the 17th century, to the simple Catholic
halls of the early 1800s, and on to the Modernist but romantic lines of the 1960s St Aengus, Burt.
