Warrenpoint Northern Ireland
United Kingdom
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Frequently Asked Questions
At Warrenpoint's port facilities, at the head of Carlingford Lough, a glacial inlet that ranks among the few fjords on the Irish coast. The town centre is reached on foot from the port.
The lough narrows as the ship advances: on one side the Mourne Mountains tumble down to the water, on the other the Cooley peninsula answers with peaks of its own. Down the middle of the channel runs, invisibly, the border between the United Kingdom and Ireland.
The walk to Narrow Water Castle fills an agreeable hour and a half there and back from the centre. With a vehicle, Rostrevor and Kilbroney Forest Park lie a few kilometres east, still leaving time for the waterfront.
A sixteenth-century tower house raised at the water's edge to watch over the narrowest point of the lough. Ringed by trees, it combines with the tide and the hills to form one of the most photographed scenes in the region.
C. S. Lewis said the landscapes of his native Ulster fed his imagined kingdom, and Kilbroney Forest Park at Rostrevor stages the novel's characters along a trail. Centuries-old oaks, streams and the plunging view from the Cloughmore viewpoint round out the outing.
A range of rounded granite summits rising above 800 metres, celebrated in a ballad known across Ireland. Excursions cross passes and valleys to the Silent Valley reservoir, built in the early twentieth century to supply Belfast with water.
Often, yes. Along the seafront promenade their round heads regularly break the surface between the buoys, watched by walkers and anglers. No excursion is needed: just lean on the railing.
No, around 9,000 residents. The central square, lined with shops and pubs, comes alive on market days, but the call is worth it above all for its setting: mountains, lough and trails. Anyone looking for a city should plan an excursion to Belfast or Newry.
Sterling, since Warrenpoint is in Northern Ireland, and English. Take note if an excursion crosses into the Republic of Ireland: the currency there becomes the euro.
May to September, for the Kilbroney trails, long days and a kinder passage up the lough. The Mourne Mountains attract cloud in every season: pack a waterproof, even on a clear morning.
