Garron Tower
| Garron Tower | |
|
County Antrim | |
|---|---|
 The Garron Tower Hotel in 1890-1900 | |
| Location | |
| Location: | 55°2’35"N, 5°58’5"W |
| History | |
| Built 1850 | |
| Information | |
Garron Tower stands by the coast of County Antrim, 200 feet above the famous Antrim Coast Road at Garron Point, overlooking the North Channel.
The tower was built as a summer residence by Frances Anne Vane, Marchioness of Londonderry, who had inherited this part of the Antrim estates from her mother, Anne Katherine MacDonnell, Countess of Antrim who had married Sir Henry Vane-Tempest of County Durham.
The Tower and grounds were purchased by McNeill's Hotel in Larne in 1915 and were acquired by the Roman Catholic Bishop of Down and Connor in 1950 for use as a boarding school for boys, which opened in September 1951 as St MacNissi's College. In 2010 this became part of Killian's College.
The seaward wall of the school has seven naval cannons from the Napoleonic Wars which are set facing the sea.