A well-preserved 16th-century tower house and bawn built by the Magennis family beside the Clanrye (Newry) River near Warrenpoint, replacing an earlier 13th-century Norman keep on the same strategically important site controlling the entrance to Carlingford Lough. A separate 19th-century Elizabethan Revival mansion of the same name stands nearby as a private residence.
Visiting Narrow Water Castle
Yes, Historic Environment Division (NI) managed state care monument
"A well-preserved 16th-century tower house and bawn built by the Magennis family beside the Clanrye (Newry) River near Warrenpoint, replacing an earlier 13th-century Norman keep on the same strategically important site controlling the entrance to Carlingford Lough."
Where to stay nearby
The closest castle hotel is Bellingham Castle, 25.07 km away in Castlebellingham — Built around 1660 by Sir Henry Bellingham, ancestral home of the Bellingham family until the 1950s; converted into a hotel from the late 1950s onward.
Nearest castle hotel · 25.07 km
Bellingham Castle
Castlebellingham, Co. Louth · 4-star
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