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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.

On 24th May Newry and Mourne Museum unveiled a mayor revamp of its main exhibitions, and launched the ‘Memory Postcard’ initiative. Many former McCann’s workers, and those who work for Irwin’s Bakery in Portadown attended the event

Commenting on the event Cllr. Charlie Casey, Deputy Mayor of Newry and Mourne District Council said that, “the Museum offers a wide range of services to the community and this is reflected in the support we receive from members of the public. People have been very generous and many of the items donated over the last three years have been invaluable providing insights into what life was like for the people of Newry and Mourne, down through the centuries.”

Not only was the launch an opportunity for visitors look at the new donations that have been acquired, but it forms part of one of the Museum’s main objectives, that of refreshing the exhibitions on a regular basis.

The revamp of the main exhibitions included the acquisition of two new exhibitions cases, one which reflects the business history of Newry and Mourne and the other focuses on the history of McCann’s Bakery.

The event also saw the launch of the Reminiscence Networks ‘Memory Postcard’ a new initiative targeting visitors to the Museum. People can jot down some of their own memories via the postcards as they progress through the museum galleries. Hopefully the exhibitions will be trigger their memories and then they will record, stories and anecdotes and share them with us.

If you have a memory you would like to share with us visit Newry and Mourne Museum, which is open to the public seven days a week with admission free of charge.