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Castle Ward

Castle Ward is an 18th-century National Trust property located near the village of , in , , in the townland of the same name.
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  • Type: Castle
  • Description: country house in Northern Ireland
  • Also known as: “Castle Ward House”, “Castleward”, “Castleward House”, and “Castleward House Castleward Strangford Downpatrick Co.down”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Audley’s Castle and Audleystown Court Tomb.

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Audley's Castle is a 15th-century castle located 1 mile north-east of , , , on a rocky height overlooking .

Archaeological site
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The is a Neolithic dual court tomb located in Ballyculter parish, near the southern shore of in , .

Public aquarium
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is a public aquarium situated in , . The facility is the only public aquarium in Northern Ireland and it is located on the shores of the Marine Nature reserve of , which is an important winter migration destination for many wading and sea birds.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Strangford and Portaferry.

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is a village historically in in Northern Ireland, now governed as part of Newry, Mourne and Down District. It's on the west bank of the narrow outlet of Lough, where the tides rip back and forth, hence to the Vikings it was Strangr-fjǫrðr, the strong fjord.

Village
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is a village in , , at the southern end of the Ards Peninsula, near the Narrows at the entrance to .

Hamlet
is a civil parish in , . It is situated in the historic baronies of Lecale Lower and Lecale Upper. It is also a townland of 623 acres. is situated 3 miles southeast of Castle Ward.

Castle Ward

Latitude
54.37297° or 54° 22′ 23″ north
Longitude
-5.57878° or 5° 34′ 44″ west
Elevation
197 feet (60 metres)
Open location code
9C6P9CFC+5F
Open­Street­Map ID
way 223292325
Open­Street­Map feature
building=­yes
Open­Street­Map feature
historic=­castle
Geo­Names ID
2653535
Wiki­data ID
Q3663083
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In Other Languages

From Cebuano to Ukrainian—“Castle Ward” goes by many names.
  • Cebuano: “Castle Ward”
  • Chinese: “Ward城堡”
  • Chinese: “沃德城堡”
  • Dutch: “Castle Ward”
  • French: “Castle Ward”
  • German: “Castle Ward”
  • Indonesian: “Kastil Ward”
  • Italian: “Castle Ward”
  • Japanese: “キャッスル・ウォード”
  • Japanese: “キャッスル・ワード”
  • Persian: “کسل وارد”
  • Russian: “Замок Уард”
  • Swedish: “Castle Ward”
  • Turkish: “Castle Ward”
  • Ukrainian: “Замок Ворд”

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Localities in the Area

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Castle Ward”. Photo: Ardfern, CC BY-SA 3.0.