While on the subject of aerial photos, here is one of the Shore Road, Rostrevor.
Tourist Information
Jem Murphy
Jem Murphy, local historian, was one of the men responsible for the discovery of the O’Neill Vault. Jem was born in Carnally in 1916.
Kingdom of Mourne
There is firm evidence of early human habitation in the Annalong area. In the mid 1980s when some minor excavation work was being carried out during the making of the
Annalong explained
Most of our place names derive from the original Gaelic and so it is of Annalong – Ath na Long or the ford of the ships. We must remember that before every river and stream …
Kilkeel
Kilkeel – the Church of the Narrows – takes its name from the old parish church built on an earlier ecclesiastic site overlooking the
Kingdom of Mourne
Saint Patrick figures in many legends of Ireland. Did you know that the boundary of what is now generally known as the Kingdom of Mourne …
Slieve Donard
The highest mountain in our region is Slieve Donard, which dominates the lovely seaside resort of
Brittany concluded
There are around half a million Bretons who still speak their native language so the efforts of the international Committee for the Defence of the Breton Language have succeeded to an even greater degree than their Irish models in preventing their native tongue from dying out.
Celtic Festival in Brittany
In common with other parts of