Kilclief Castle
Kilclief Castle is a tower-house castle beside Strangford Lough and 2.5 miles south of the village of Strangford, County Down, Northern Ireland. Kilclief is a hamlet on the Strangford to Ardglass road.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include SeaGen.
SeaGen
Electrical generator
Photo: Fundy, CC BY-SA 3.0.
SeaGen was the world's first large scale commercial tidal stream generator. It was four times more powerful than any other tidal stream generator in the world at the time of installation. SeaGen is situated 2½ miles north of Kilclief Castle.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Kilclief and Ballyhornan.
Kilclief
Hamlet
Kilclief is a civil parish in County Down, Northern Ireland. It is situated in the historic baronies of Lecale Lower and Lecale Upper. It is also a townland of 623 acres.
Ballyhornan
Hamlet
Photo: Wickedwritah, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Ballyhornan is a small village and townland in eastern County Down, Northern Ireland. It is located along the Irish Sea coast, less than 10 miles from Downpatrick. Ballyhornan is situated 2½ miles south of Kilclief Castle.
Strangford
Photo: Ardfern, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Strangford is a village historically in County Down in Northern Ireland, now governed as part of Newry, Mourne and Down District. It's on the west bank of the narrow outlet of Strangford Lough, where the tides rip back and forth, hence to the Vikings it was Strangr-fjǫrðr, the strong fjord.
Kilclief Castle
- Type: House
- Description: castle in the United Kingdom
- Categories: castle, building, historic site, and residential building
- Location: Newry, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
54.3355° or 54° 20′ 8″ northLongitude
-5.54518° or 5° 32′ 43″ westInception
1441Open location code
9C6P8FP3+6WOpenStreetMap ID
way 1217990144OpenStreetMap feature
building=houseOpenStreetMap feature
historic=castleWikidata ID
Q3312062
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In Other Languages
From German to Ukrainian—“Kilclief Castle” goes by many names.
- German: “Kilclief Castle”
- Irish: “Caisleán Chill Chléithe”
- Irish: “Caislean Cill Cléithe”
- Japanese: “キルクリーフ城”
- Ukrainian: “Замок Кілкліф”
Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Kilclief Beach and Kilclief Parish Church.
Nearby Places
Explore places such as Kilclief car park and Kilclief Recreation/Picnic 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 “Kilclief Castle”. Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 2.0.