Murlough Cottage: A family run caravan park situated close to the Mourne Mountains at Newcastle, County Down. For nearly 70 years the Truesdale family have managed a caravan park on the Dundrum Road. Way back then old railway carriages were used and rented out to summer holiday makers.

When the first hand-built tourers / statics arrived many visitors parked them on pitches for the duration of the summer. Many changes have taken place in the touring and static holiday home industry and even on our family park at Murlough Cottage since then.

Located safely and quietly at the bottom of the park, each pitch has a spectacular view of the Mourne Mountains and surrounding countryside.

All pitches are on hard level standing. Awning sites have gravel to the side.

Each pitch has it's own water, electric and waste disposal point.

Voltage on each pitch is 10amps.

The log cabin toilet block houses the ladies and gents washroom and showers.

We take great pride in our facilities and always ensure you have maximum comfort during your stay.

Multi-function Sports Court • tennis • bowls • football

Recreation Room • pool tables • video machines • table tennis • air hockey

Laundry Room • 10 washing machines • 8 tumble dryers

Northern Ireland is a country of beauty and variety; and no part of it combines so much of each in so neat and compact an area as the heart of Down.

The world knows that 'the Mountains o' Mourne sweep down to the sea' - at Newcastle. The sea itself invades the land, forming the great bird sanctuary and yachting paradise of Strangford Lough. St Patrick sailed into the lough in A.D. 432 and eventually died - at Downpatrick.

The Mourne Mountains

Castlewellan: Located in a dramatic setting of mountains and sea, this is one of the most oustanding tree and shrub collections in Europe. The beauty, vigour and perfect shape of the trees in the National Aboretum attract tree enthusiasts from around the world. However, Castlewellan has numerous features that draw wider attention. The garden is a mixture of informal and formal design with terraces, fountains, ornamental gates and flower borders. To walk around the forest park's mile-long lake, encountering some intriguing modern sculptures on the way, is to enjoy a great experience of eighteenth-century landscaping.

Castlewellan Forest Park

Royal County Down Golf Club Widely regarded as one of the finest links courses in the world, Royal County Down has an appropriate setting at Newcastle, where the Mountains of Mourne sweep down to the sea. For more than 100 years it had nestled on classic duneland, in the shadow of majestic Slieve Donard, which plunges 3,000 feet almost to the edge of Dundrum Bay.