Moyry CastleA small square tower built on rock in 1601 to hold the Moyry Pass, the old road north through the Gap of the North.
Cemetery
Kilnasaggart Stone
Jonesborough, County Armagh
A tall pillar stone carved with crosses inside circles, standing in a field near Jonesborough among smaller cross-carved stones from an early Christian cemetery.
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- Jonesborough, County Armagh
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Moyry CastleA small square tower built on rock in 1601 to hold the Moyry Pass, the old road north through the Gap of the North.
Hill of FaughartThe hill north of Dundalk carries an old graveyard, a holy well and a long view out over the plain.
Proleek DolmenThe capstone weighs about forty tonnes and balances on three uprights, out on the golf course of the Ballymascanlon House Hotel.
The Cooley PeninsulaCooley is the finger of land between Carlingford Lough and Dundalk Bay, mountain on one side and water on the other.
The Táin WayAbout 40km of waymarked circuit around the Cooley peninsula, starting and finishing in Carlingford.
DundalkDundalk sits on the Castletown river, almost exactly halfway between Dublin and Belfast.What’s on nearby
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