The melody and words 'Where the Mountains of Mourne sweep down to the sea' of the popular song written by Percy French in 1896, have made the Mournes the best-known mountains in Ireland. An area of Outstanding Natural Beauty, the Mourne Mountains are the most picturesque in Ireland and were the inspiraton for the writer CS Lewis's magical land of Narnia in his popular children's books the Chronicles of Narnia.
castlewellan, castle, lake, county, down, ulster, northern, ireland, Annesleys, scottish, baronial
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The Castle, built in Scottish Baronial style in the second half of the 19th Century to replace the earlier residence of the Annesleys which was nearer the lake
boat, aground, ship, shipwreck, beach, storm, sand, Bunbeg, Donegal, Ireland, west, coast, bad, Eddie
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The shipwreck is located in the Donegal's west coast in the village of Bunbeg. It ran aground during a storm in the early 70s and is known locally as Bad Eddie
The distinctive and famous Rye Mill . It occupies an historic site in Gibbet's Marsh where a windmill has stood, in one form or another, since at least the sixteenth century.