Attractions
The fishing Lodge is situated just ten miles from Newry, one of the bigger towns. There you can make day tours by train. A day tour to Dublin along the coast is well worth while.Newry is close to the Belfast Dublin motorway and has an excellent bus service which also goes through Hilltown.
There is a possibitly to take the express coatch to Dublin or Belfast for the or to any neighbouring towns e.g. Castelwellan famous for its forest park, with its fishing conoeing and its most beautyfull gardens and walks. Hilltown the nearest small town from the Lodge is noted for its sheep fairs and the annual Booley fair held in July attracts many Visitors.
Soon after Hilltown on the road to Bryansford ruins of the ancient church of Colonduff, the burial place of the Magennis family can be seen. There is a strech of water seen on the left before entering Bryansford is Lough Island Reavy reservoir on the Casstelwellan to Rathfriland Road.
The ornate Towers on the outskirts of the Village are boundary markers and gate posts.there is a Gothic gateway this is the exit from Tollymore Forest Park, once the Roden estate, this is also a wonderfully laid out park with landscape gardening there is the mountain stream with waterfalls flowing through the estate which just adds to its beauty.
Rostrevor Riviera of Nothern Ireland- is protected from the cold winds by the wooded mountains and is famous for its mildness if climate. Kilbroney Park and Forest Drive, recently established by the local authority, is well worth a visit.One mile from Rostrevor, Kilbroney graveyard in which lie the remains of the nineteenth century gaint, Patrick Murphy, who was born in a cottage near Cassy Water.He is said to have been 8'a10"in hight and, after displaying his enormous frame worldwide, returned to Rostrevor to be buried.