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Detail of Dishan Tower
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Detail of Dishan Tower

Taken on the 7th July 2005.
This is the Dishan Tower or Douche, apparently built in the 1600s as a doocot, and converted to a salt water shower about the time of the completion of Balfour Castle in 1848.
Picture added on 10 February 2006
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