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The dry stone Mourne Wall climbing a rocky ridge on Slieve Bearnagh, with the Mourne peaks beyond

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Things to do in Newcastle

County Down

Four of the twenty places on our County Down list are in or near Newcastle: Mourne Mountains, Slieve Donard, Tollymore Forest Park and Murlough National Nature Reserve. That is two mountains, a forest and a nature reserve between them. Below you will find one more place from Northern Ireland's heritage records.

On our Down list

4 places in and around Newcastle.

  1. The dry stone Mourne Wall climbing a rocky ridge on Slieve Bearnagh, with the Mourne peaks beyondMourne MountainsMountain · NewcastleA granite range in the south of the county. The dry stone Mourne Wall, built between 1904 and 1922 to mark off the water catchment, runs over its summits.
  2. The stone summit tower and cairn on Slieve Donard, with the Mourne Wall and the hills behindSlieve DonardMountain · NewcastleThe highest mountain in Northern Ireland stands over Newcastle, and the Great Cairn on its summit holds the highest passage tomb in Ireland.
  3. An old stone arch bridge over a river gorge among autumn trees in Tollymore Forest ParkTollymore Forest ParkForest · NewcastleForest at the foot of the Mournes near Newcastle, open all year, with views of the sea and paths on foot up to Slieve Donard and Slieve Commedagh.
  4. Waves breaking on the dark sand at Murlough, with the Mourne Mountains under cloud across the bayMurlough National Nature ReserveNature reserve · NewcastleSand dunes up to six thousand years old on the shore between Dundrum and Newcastle, and Ireland's first national nature reserve.

More to see in Newcastle

From Northern Ireland’s heritage records and other public sources.

  1. Maghera Church and Round TowerAbbey or church · Newcastle

More from the Down list

  1. The front of Mount Stewart house behind a lawn with palms and a stone sundialMount StewartHouse and gardens · NewtownardsThe Stewart family's neoclassical house on the Ards Peninsula looks over Strangford Lough, and Edith, Lady Londonderry designed the gardens around it from the 1920s.
  2. The angular silver facade of the Titanic Belfast building under a blue skyTitanic BelfastMuseum · BelfastThe museum stands beside the slipways where the Titanic was built and launched, and a ticket also takes you aboard SS Nomadic, the last surviving White Star Line ship.
  3. The classical stone entrance front of Castle Ward houseCastle WardHouse and gardens · StrangfordBernard Ward and Lady Ann Bligh built this house above Strangford Lough in the 1760s, with a classical entrance front and a Gothic garden front.
  4. The Silent Valley reservoir with steep Mourne slopes rising on both sidesSilent Valley ReservoirLake · KilkeelBelfast's water supply reservoir in the high Mournes was begun in 1923 and opened in 1933, and a trail runs up the valley to Ben Crom Reservoir.
  5. The stony shore of Strangford Lough curving towards a wooded point under a blue skyStrangford LoughLake · StrangfordThe largest sea lough in the British Isles and a Marine Conservation Zone, crossed at its narrow mouth by the Strangford to Portaferry ferry.
  6. The turreted granite castle in Castlewellan Forest Park, red creeper on its walls, above a lawnCastlewellan Forest ParkForest · CastlewellanForest park on the north side of the Mournes with a lake you can fish and canoe on, and the Annesley Garden and Arboretum inside the grounds.

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