What is "castlebawn"

Castlebawn is a 16th-century Tower house, in County Clare, Ireland. It is on a small island on Lough Derg on the River Shannon, close to the shoreline in Scariff Bay. It was built by the McNamaras about 1540, blown-up in 1827, and now restored and opened to the public.

Castlebawn is a proposed £250 million, shopping centre and retail park in Newtownards, County Down, Northern Ireland. It is a joint venture between Eastwood Property and R&A Group. The ambitious proposals, which promise to create up to 2,000 jobs, will extend the town centre and edge of centre southwards in a three-stage development, which was expected to be completed by 2012. The development includes a retail park with 12 retail warehousing units, as well as a shopping centre. It also includes a bypass from Portaferry Road to Comber Road, which will link to the roundabout at the beginning of the main road to Belfast. This will allow traffic to bypass Newtownards town centre and will help ease traffic problems in the area.

The scheme is being developed as part of the Newtownards Town Centre regeneration scheme and will feature:

• a shopping centre which will be physically integrated with the town centre,

• of retailing,

• a business-office park,

• of leisure units,

• a petrol filling station and two car showrooms, and
• an Tesco store with associated retail units.