Greencastle
Greencastle is a castle in County Down. Find it 5 km southwest of Kilkeel. There is one more place to see within 15 km: Narrow Water Keep (14 km).
Castle near Kilkeel
Just outside Kilkeel
Greencastle is 5 km southwest of Kilkeel. Towns near it ↓
Written from OpenStreetMap, Wikidata, NISRA’s settlement limits and Met Office 1991–2020 averages.
Month by month
If warmth matters, go June to August: Kilkeel reaches 17–19°C.
Greencastle
It has articles in 6 Wikipedias.
- Type
- Castle
- Wikipedias
- Covered in 6 languages
- Town
- 5 km southwest of Kilkeel
- Official site
- communities-ni.gov.uk/heritage-sites/greencastle
Greencastle on the map
The orange dot is Greencastle; the numbers are the places near it, as listed below.
© OpenStreetMap contributors · NISRA settlement development limit 2015
Towns within reach of Greencastle
The most populous of the 6 is Newry, at 28,530. The towns whose pages list it: the one it is in, those within 5 km of it, then larger towns further out.
Kilkeel
Rostrevor
Warrenpoint and Burren
Newry
Compare the 6 towns
Each has its own grades, prices and things to do.
Other places close by
Add a castle, the one other place within 15 km.
Within 15 km, close and well known first. Numbers match the map.
Questions before you go
Where is Greencastle?
Greencastle is 5 km southwest of Kilkeel, Newry, Mourne and Down.
What is Greencastle?
Castle in County Down, United Kingdom.
When is the best time to visit Greencastle?
June to August are the warmest months in Kilkeel, with afternoon highs of 17–19°C (Met Office 1991–2020 averages).
What else is there to see near Greencastle?
Within 15 km: Narrow Water Keep (14 km).
Places: OpenStreetMap (© OpenStreetMap contributors, Open Database Licence) and Wikidata (CC0), placed in NISRA’s Settlement Development Limits 2015 (Open Government Licence v3.0). Visitor counts are the latest Wikidata gives, with their year.
Photos: each place’s Wikidata image, from Wikimedia Commons under the licence below (our copy, resized).
Photo credits (2)
- Greencastle: James Edgar, CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Narrow Water Keep: Wilson Adams, CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
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