Rostrevor.

Rostrevor nestles beneath the Mourne Mountains on the shores of Carlingford Lough, the town is renowned for its mild climate and beautiful scenery, it is a popular destination for tourists. Bridge street runs beside the river Rostrevor. On the far side of the bridge a footpath runs upstream beside the river to the fairy glen where the river runs through a tunnel of mature oak, sycamore and beech trees growing on banks festooned by wild flowers, on a summer day with the sunlight penetrating the canopy, reflecting on on the water as it cascades over the rocks, it is easy to understand why the place came to be called The Fairy Glen.

During the sixteenth century Rostrevor was called Castle Rory or Castle Roe, after Rory Maginness who built a stronghold on the shores of Carlingford Lough. The Maginness lands around Rostrevor came into the hands of the Trevor family Viscounts of Dungannon. The Trevor's castle was built between the years 1611-12 possibly on Sea Point and replaced the Maginness castle.

The name Rostrevor is said to come into use in 1618 when Rose youngest daughter of Sir Marmaduke Whichchurch married Trevor, viscount of Dungannon. The Ross family purchased much of the Rostrevor area in the eighteenth century.
The above information seen in conflict with the explanation at the top of the page.

On the steep slopes of Slievemartin 1,597 ft (487 Meter's) is Rostrevor Forest a national nature reserve. A path on the eastern side of the reserve wends its way to Cloughmore a great stone left behind by an Ice Age glacier it stands on a spur of the mountain about 900 ft (274 Meter's) above sea level. Local legend has it that the giant Finn MacCool threw it from Carlingford mountain 4 miles away across the Lough. (See also the Giants Causeway)

North of Rostrevor along the Kilbroney river are the remains of a church on the site of a 6th century monastery founded by the patron saint of seafarers, St. Bronagh. A bronze hand bell found in a hollow wall of Kilbroney church is said to have been St Bronagh's, it is now on the alter of Rostrevor Roman Catholic church. The remains of Kilbroney church visible today are those of a fifteenth century parochial church.