The Bogie Trail leads onto the Bogie Hill on Kingstreet and then on down to the harbour.  This Trail was the main transportation of granite off the Mourne Mountains.  A ‘Bogie’ is the name given to the small railway cart used to transport granite down the hill. For years the Bogie trail was merely an overgrown path through the forest Read more…

It is not known where exacly the name ‘Bloody Bridge’ comes from, although it is thought that it may derive from a massacre that occured in the area in 1641.  It is said that bodies where thrown over the bridge and into the river, tainting it red with blood. The area surrounding the Bloody Bridge is eerily beautiful and extreamly Read more…