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Ulster/Ulaidh Southeast trail
Nendrum Monastery, Strangford Castle, Kilclief Castle/Caislean Cill Cleithe, Portaferry Castle, Quoile Castle, Ballynoe Stone Circle, Margaret Castle, Clough Castle, Dundrum Castle, Wateresk Portal Tomb, Drumena Cashel Stone Fort, Moyry Castle/Caisleán na Maighre, Proleek Portal Tomb and Cloughoughter Castle
Nendrum Monastery
This is said to have been founded in the fifth century. The remains on the site include three concentric dry stone enclosures. The central enclosure has the remains of a round tower, a graveyard and ruined church and sundial. More on Nendrum Monastery
Strangford Castle
This is a mainly sixteenth century restored three storey rectangular tower house with possible fifteenth century origins that is located overlooking the harbour at Strangford/Baile Loch Cuan in County Down/Contae an Duin. More on Strangford Castle
Kilclief Castle/Caislean Cill Cleithe
This is a four floored tower house built between 1413 and 1441 and features a high machicolation arch. More on Kilclief Castle/Caislean Cill Cleithe
Portaferry Castle
This is an early sixteenth century castle and three storey town house with an L-shaped turret on the southern corner. The site is open to the public and located in the village of Portaferry/Port a Pheire at the entrance of Strangford Lough in County Down/Contae an Duin. More on Portaferry Castle
Quoile Castle
This is a late sixteenth century rectangular tower house with three floors with a sandstone exterior. The southeast corner of the building has fallen down. More on Quoile Castle
Ballynoe Stone Circle
This is made up of over fifty stones astronomically aligned and of various heights reaching up to about 1.8 metres. There are three pairs of stones outside of the circle. More on Ballynoe Stone Circle
Margaret Castle
This is a tower house built in the fifteenth century with two stories remaining. There are four castles in this town. The others are Ardglass Castle from the fifteenth century, Cowd Castle a late fifteenth/early sixteenth century two story tower house. Jordans Castle a four story rectangular tower house possibly from the fifteenth century. More on Margaret Castle
Clough Castle
This is an Anglo-Norman earthwork castle with a stone tower on top of a motte surrounded by a ditch and partial bailey. More on Clough Castle
Dundrum Castle
This is a ruined twelfth century Norman Castle. It was strengthened in the thirteenth century with the addition of a large round keep and two towered gatehouse. In the fourteenth century outer walls were added and in the seventeenth a mansion was built in a corner of the outer bailey. More on Dundrum Castle
Wateresk Portal Tomb
This portal tomb has a capstone of about three metres long on three stones one standing at about 1.8 metres high. More on Wateresk Portal Tomb
Drumena Cashel Stone Fort
This stone fort, with average wall heights standing about 2.75 meters and over three metres thick, dates back to the early Christian period. Within the site is a souterrain about fifteen metres long and over two metres high and remains of dwellings. More on Drumena Cashel Stone Fort
Greencastle
This is a thirteenth century castle with fifteenth and sixteenth century additions. It is made up of a rectangular keep with vaulted chambers on the ground floor. The site is about four miles southwest from Kilkeel/Cill Chaoil in County Down and off the A2 and a minor road.
Narrow Water Castle
This is a sixteenth century tower house and bawn although there has been a keep on this site since 1212. It is seen as a very good example of it's type and is located close to the A2 where Calligford lough meets the Newry River at Warrenpoint/an Phointe in County Down.
Barnmeen Standing Stone
This stands at a height of about 3.6 metres. It is located in County Down northeast of Newry/ Iúr Cinn Trá north of the A25 towards Rathfriland and next to a hedge by a minor road.
Goward Portal Tomb
This portal tomb has a very large fifty tonne granite capstone balancing on supporting stones. The site is off a minor road south of the A25 east of Rathfriland in County Down.
Ballymacdermot Court Tomb
On this site are the remains of a three chambered Neolithic tomb. It is located in County Armagh southeast of Newry and off a minor road to the west of the A1 northwest from Cloughoge. It is on the south side of Ballymacdermot Mountain.
Ballykeel Portal Tomb
This is a portal tomb with a large capstone supported by three stones standing about two metres in height. The site is located southwest of Newry/ Iúr Cinn Trá off a minor road south from the B30 and west from the B134 in County Armagh.
Kilnasaggart Pillar Stone
This is a carved early Christian stone standing nearly eight feet in height. The stone has carved crosses and Latin inscriptions and is thought to date back to 700AD. It is located in County Armagh close to a minor road southwest from Jonesborough/Baile Atha an Chlair which is south from Newry/ Iúr Cinn Trá.
Moyry Castle/Caisleán na Maighre
This is a rectangular three storey tower with rounded corners and was built in 1601 to guard the pass between the Irish provinces of Ulster and Leinster. More on Moyry Castle/Caisleán na Maighre
Proleek Portal Tomb
This consists of a large capstone of about 40 tonnes. It rests on two portals of over two metres in height and a backstone. More on Proleek Portal Tomb
Cloughoughter Castle
This ruined thirteenth century circular castle is located on an island in Lough Oughter south of Killykeen Forest Park. The building was completed by the O'Reilly clan who retained control of the castle for a number of centuries. More on Cloughoughter Castle