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Located in the South eastern corner of Northern Ireland, Newry & Mourne extends a warm welcome and invites you to experience a region that offers it visitors a great diversity of scenery, culture, entertainment and leisure activities.

Newry Tourist Information Centre is designed to help you enjoy your stay and explore the Newry & Mourne area and surrounding counties.

Services available:
· Tourist Information – local and national
· Accommodation reservations – Ireland and UK
· Literature, gifts and souvenirs

Following methods of payment accepted
· Cash (Sterling & Euro), Cheque, Access, Eurocard, Mastercard, Switch and Visa
· Postage, Fax, and Photocopying service Access for disabled users
· Wheelchair accessible toilets and baby changing facilities
· Free and convenient parking

An innovative new website, which makes accessible the historic archive collections of Newry and Mourne Museum at Bagenal’s Castle and Louth County Archives Service can be found at www.louthnewryarchives. or via the link on the home page of the Bagenal’s Castle website. This was launched in June 2008

The website features online exhibitions, educational activities, and an oral history archive section was well as the online catalogue of the archival holdings. The site will be of interest to a range of user groups including the business community, schools and colleges, the public sector and the wider community as a whole.

This year long project involved the recruitment of two archivists who catalogued the historic archives in both services. This involved a vast array of material on the historical development of the region including the Reside Collection in Newry which contains a wide range of highly important manuscript material including architectural plans, notebooks, leases, maps, estate records and other documentation relating to the Newry and Mourne area. In Louth, the Paddy Mallon collection – Great Northern Railway (Ireland), Roden papers, Macardle Moore papers, and several other smaller collections were catalogued.

The project also included conservation treatment on a number of items within these collections.

Those interested in the research or educational potential of the collections can make an appointment and visit this a useful resource for local history, information and knowledge in the two services.

This project is part financed by the European Union through the Interreg IIIA Programme managed for the Special EU Programmes Body by the East Border Region Interreg IIIA Partnership.

For more information please contact:
Louth County Archives Service, Old Gaol, Ardee Road, Dundalk, Tel: +353 (0)42-9339387

OR

Newry and Mourne Museum, Bagenal’s Castle, Castle Street, Newry, Tel: 028 (048 from ROI) 3031 3178.

Now open in Bagenal’s Castle, Copper Café is the latest culinary treat from the team behind Warrenpoint’s best restaurant, ‘Copper’.

Located on the site of Newry’s famous landmark ‘McCann’s Bakery’, the café is already proving to be a hit with food and coffee lovers through out the city. A varied menu offers everything from breakfast to lunch to home baked pastries and desserts, though the traditionally home baked scones and chocolate brownies are worth a special mention!

The Café is open:
Monday – Saturday: 9am – 5pm

Add this to the great parking, Copper Café is without doubt another recipe for success.

For the cafe Menu go to our Publications page or copy this link into your browser:

http://www.bagenalscastle.com/newsletter/index.asp

Contact Details

For more details contact Sarah on 07763398450

Download a colourful leaflet outlining the origins of Bagenal's Castle the home of Newry and Mourne Museum.

Built in the environs of the site of a 12th-century Cistercian abbey, Bagenal’s Castle is an early example of a fortified house, a type of residential building favoured by the gentry in Ireland and Scotland in the late 16th and early 17th centuries.

Go to our Publications page or copy this link into your browser:

Contact Details

http://www.bagenalscastle.com/newsletter/index.asp

The Spirit of Newry: capturing memories of Newry Musical Feis
4th March – 31st August 2010.

A temporary exhibition exploring the development of Newry Musical Feis, the largest of its kind in the British Isles, from its beginnings in 1928 until the present day. The exhibition will feature programmes from past festivals, medals, trophies and certificates won by competitors and photographs of the numerous people associated with the Feis including many past winners who are internationally famous as actors and musicians today.

From 11th March to 1st April, there will be a number of creative writing classes at Newry and Mourne Museum as part of the Valuing Heritage by Valuing Memories Reminiscence project. The project’s aim is too preserve life stories and memories of people in local communities, and these workshops will offer people the opportunity to share their memories and have them preserved in a booklet for future generations.

One important element of the Reminiscence project, which has been running in conjunction with Newry and Mourne Museum at Bagenal’s Castle, is the development of loan boxes. These boxes contain every day items, which operate as multi-sensory triggers, which then act as a stimulus to memory. Encountering an everyday object that has been long forgotten often sparks reminiscence. Borrowers of the boxes have been writing down some of their memories and including them in the Loan Boxes. This has provided some brilliant anecdotes, placing the objects in the boxes in the context of our social history. In order to ensure these memories are not lost a “Memories Booklet” is being created to preserve and treasure them.

However, more memories would be most welcome. In order to give you the opportunity to share some of you memories and have them enshrined in a booklet for posterity we are holding a series of Five Creative Writing Workshops from Thursday 11th March to Thursday 1st April, inclusive, in Bagenal’s Castle, from 2.30pm to 4.30pm

Local writer Sean Maguire will facilitate the workshops. The aim of the workshops is to stimulate your memory and provide the support, advice and guidance to help you pen creative pieces of writing about your special memories.

Places on the workshops are limited and so must be booked in advance.

Contact Details

Contact Katrina Lavery on 0793689638 or email katrinalavery@rnni.org to book your place.