Ballyquintin Point Nature Reserve

Ballyquintin Point Nature Reserve is a nature reserve in Ards and North Down, Northern Ireland. Ballyquintin Point Nature Reserve is situated nearby to the locality Bar Hall, as well as near Castle Flannan.

Places of Interest

Highlights include Kilclief Castle.

Kilclief Castle

House

Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 2.0.

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.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Strangford and Portaferry.

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.

Portaferry

Village

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Portaferry is a village in County Down, Northern Ireland, at the southern end of the Ards Peninsula, near the Narrows at the entrance to Strangford Lough.

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.

Ballyquintin Point Nature Reserve

Type: Nature reserve
Also known as: “Ballyquintin National Nature Reserve”
Categories: recreation area and shrubland
Location: Ards and North Down, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude

54.3348° or 54° 20′ 5″ north

Longitude

-5.5022° or 5° 30′ 8″ west

Operator

Department of Agriculture and Rural Development of Northern Ireland

Open location code

9C6P8FMX+W4

OpenStreetMap ID

way 786246337

OpenStreetMap feature

leisure=nature_reserve

OpenStreetMap feature

natural=scrub

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Localities in the Area

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Highlights include Green Island and Angus Rock Lighthouse.

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