Company for coffee, Castleward
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So many gorgeous views and trees.
Castleward
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The gravelled courtyard, with tables and chairs, top of big house sticking out above one of the rooves. Mostly blue sky.
Table and chairs, by walled area opening out onto trees.
Castleward choices for coffee drinking...
By the "outbuildings" near the mansion.
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Colour contrasts inland from St John's Point Lighthouse
Green, grey, maroon and more leaves.
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Longer view, St John's Point Lighthouse
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Mournes, atmospheric from St John's Point Lighthouse
Across Dundrum Outer Bay.
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It is possible to stay on the Lighthouse site. See www.irishlandmark.com
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Top of the Mournes capped but an otherwise clear sky
Looking WSW to the #Mournes from Rossglass, across Dundrum Outer Bay (Irish Sea).
Clouds, glistening sea, sand and more.
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#Heron in field near the high-treed rookeries they all use here in Murlough Nature Reserve (not a great picture, I admit).
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Slieve Croob with its communications masts (Dromara Hills, a geological offshoot of the Mourne Mountains).
Seen from Murlough Nature Reserve and past Dundrum Village (The National Trust looks after the dunes of the reserve, lovely walkways).
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1177 John de Courcy, an Anglo-Norman knight, invades Ulster and builds Dundrum Castle. 1203 - Hugh de Lacy replaces de Courcy as lord of Ulster 1205 - De Courcy attempts and fails to recapture castle. 1210 - King John besieges the castle and Hugh de Lacy flees to France. 1227 - De Lacy regains "his" lands under King Henry III and returns to Ulster 1234 - De Lacy dies and Dundrum reverts to royal possession 1333 - The castle is described as 'a ruinous castle, which is of no annual value'. 1517 The Earl of Kildare captures the castle from the Magennises. 1601 The Magennises recapture the castle from Lord Mountjoy, the Lord Deputy of Queen Elizabeth. 1605 The castle is sold to the Governor of Lecale, Lord Cromwell. 1636 Sir Francis Blundell purchases the site. 1641 During the Irish Rebellion, the castle falls to Irish forces but is recaptured by Parliamentary forces and used as a garrison. 1652 The Parliamentary garrison abandons the site, rendering it indefensible. 1800S The castle passes to the Marquis of Downshire, who encourage the development of Dundrum village and makes some alterations to the castle. 1954 The monument is placed In State Care.
Looking West from Murlough: across Dundrum village to the Keep and the lower buildings of the Castle
1177 John de Courcy, an Anglo-Norman knight, invades Ulster and builds Dundrum Castle. More in ALT-Text
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Looking SSW to the Mournes, over the whin-covered undulations of Murlough Nature Reserve, Dundrum. The reserve is lovely, a short walk from the village.
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Lesser Celandine in its cheery profusion.
Strangford
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Unfurling fiddlehead fern frond
Strangford
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Mature tree Bark Striated Lichen growth
Bark sculpture.
Striations
Lichen
Strangford
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I have been seen.
Arglass seals
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Bulrushes by the Quoile
Inch Abbey
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Blackthorn in flower
Inch Abbey
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To the W of the Abbey, the Church of Ireland graveyard and site of CoI original Church.
"...established here in 1609, around the time of the Plantation of Ulster, with many settlers coming to this area from Scotland." More in ALT-text
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Another view of Down Cathedral, across the Quoile. From the East transept, Inch Abbey.
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Down Cathedral from Inch Abbey
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Blackthorn
Bulrushes
Oak and the sun.
Inch Abbey
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The main part of the site, left.
Choir and Chancel (R)
Inch Abbey.
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The Quoile, Down Cathedral, round to the ruins of the Casterician Abbey, founded by Norman invader, John De Courcey, 1180. Was a monastic site here from 800, but this one was founded in expiation for the sacking of nearby Erenagh Abbey.
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The much maligned Ivy, with her fruit, soon to be nectar.
Strangford Woods
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Clump of Bluebells among a swarth of leaves
Clump of Bluebells
Strangford Woods
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Portaferry across the Lough, Strangford Woods, across to Castleward, tge Audleystown Castle and up the Lough.
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Clump of Bluebells
Lesser Celandine
Wild Cherry
Cherry Laurel
Strangford Woods...
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