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GARDENS • CULTURE • LITERATURE • LOCAL HISTORY • MYTHS & LEGENDS • HERITAGE • CHristian HeritaGE • CREATIVE • NATURE • ACTIVEHome-Grown And Local In DownDiscover how to find good local food in County Down. Visit the farm shops and localeateries serving the best of local home grown produce.Start your guided food tour of County Down at McKee’s Farm Shop 1, Newtownards.Along with fresh vegetables and other superb produce, McKee’s stocks the local Comberpotato, famous for its unique flavour and quality. Next travel through the rolling green hills,stopping off at the busy Old Post Office 2 in Lisbane to enjoy some delicious home cookingand browse their gift shop.The tour continues through the pretty villages of Killinchy and Killyleagh, home to the lastcastle in Northern Ireland to be continually occupied for the past three decades. Call in atAlfie Murray’s Family Butchers 3 and sample some of his award-winning produce fromhomemade chicken pies to locally farmed meat. Just outside Killyleagh check out thenaturally reared free-range rare breed meat at Pheasants’ Hill Farm Shop 4.Next, your guide will bring the story of St Patrick to life as you travel along the banks of theRiver Quoile to Downpatrick, his reputed final resting place, before taking your tour throughthe pretty villages of Clough and Seaforde to Ballynahinch and the Primrose Bar 5, famedfor its fresh pub grub, to enjoy a hearty lunch prepared with the freshest local food produce.TO BOOK CONTACT (one of the following)David McAnirn, Blue Badge GuideT: (028) 9145 8831 M: 077331 00755 E: info@looknorthni.co.ukLoretto Coyle, Blue Badge GuideT: (028) 4372 5191 M: 0797340 8056 E: loretto@outdoorirelandnorth.co.ukVisit contacts1McKee’sFarm Shop28 Holywood Road,Newtownards,Co. Down,BT23 4TQ.(028) 9182 13042Old Post Office191 Killinchy Road,Lisbane, Comber,Co. Down,BT23 6AA.(028) 9754 333534Alfie MurraY Pheasants’Family BUTCHErs Hill Farm Shop3 Cross Street,37 Killyleagh Road,Killyleagh,Downpatrick,Co. Down,Co. Down,BT30 9QG.BT30 9BL.(028) 4482 8189 (028) 4461 72465The Primrose Bar30 Main Street,Ballynahinch,Co. Down,BT24 8DN.(028) 9756 3177WHILE YOU’RE in THE AREAEating Out - Strangford Arms Hotel; McCanns Coffee Shop & Deli; Daft Eddys Restaurant;Dufferin Arms; Denvir’s Hotel.Retail therapy - Scrabo Garden Centre; Downpatrick Town Centre.Extending your visit - Castle Espie; Rowallane Garden; Castle Ward; The Saint Patrick’s Centre.findgoodlocalfood.com promoting the best of local food produce in Ards, Armagh, Craigavon,Down and Newry & Mourne.your day outAt a glance5-6HOURS146For additional information and more group day visit ideas, please visitdiscovernorthernireland.com/groupsDigging Potatoes at Scrabo Tower
GARDENS • CULTURE • LITERATURE • LOCAL History • MYTHS & LEGENDS • HeritaGE • CHRISTIAN HERITAGE • CREATIVE • nature • ACTIVEGranite Men of MourneA tour of discovery in the Mourne Mountains, discovering how the men quarried thegranite and cut and used the stone to build the Mourne Wall. Discover how the Silent ValleyReservoir was built and the problems that faced the men of Watertown. Visit Annalongharbour where schooners sailed with granite setts and kerb stones for England.The beautiful Mourne Mountains, famous for the quality of its granite, dry stone walls andwater supply, as well as the amazing Mourne Wall - is one of the popular tourist attractionsin Northern Ireland.This tour takes you on the scenic high road through the mountains, passing Spelga Damon route to the Silent Valley Reservoir 1. Enjoy a short stroll around the former Watertownwhere there are a number of visitor facilities including tea rooms and information centre.Next the tour visits Kilkeel where granite is still worked today and stop for lunch in one of theharbour cafés. After lunch the tour continues along the coast to Annalong Harbour where 18Schooners set sail each month laden with Mourne granite. You will also visit the Corn Mill 2at Annalong to see one of the former uses of granite.Keeping to the coast next head to the busy seaside resort of Newcastle, where you will havetime to wander along the promenade or browse in the local shops.Please come prepared with comfortable walking shoes and outdoor clothing.TO BOOK CONTACTLoretto Coyle, Blue Badge Guide, Outdoor Ireland NorthM: 07973 408056 E: loretto@outdoorirelandnorth.co.ukVisit contact1SILENT VALLEY RESERVOIRHead Road, Kilkeel,Co. Down, BT34 4HU.(028) 9074 11662ANNALONG CORN MILLMarine Park, Annalong,Co. Down, BT34 4RH.(028) 4376 8736WHILE YOU’RE in THE AREAEating Out - Tearooms at Silent Valley; Harbourside Tea Room; Mourne Grange Craft & CoffeeShop; The Kilmorey Arms; The Harbour Inn.Retail therapy - Mourne Grange Craft & Coffee Shop; Newcastle Town Centre.Extending your visit - The Cnocnafeola Centre; Murlough Nature Reserve; Tollymore Forest.your day outAt a glance148For additional information and more group day visit ideas, please visitdiscovernorthernireland.com/groupsMOURNE WALL
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