T he Game of T hrones™ itinerary not only brings to life the drama of the series, but also provides a front row seat at locations steeped in local myth and legend. So why not step on to a set like no other, where you can indulge your fascination for Game of T hrones, investigate what County Down has to offer, and still have time to enjoy the sort of hospitality that Location Map this part of the world is famed? Welcome to the real Westeros! Groomsport BANGOR HOLYWOOD Clandeboye Estate BELFAST MILLISLE NEWTOWNARDS 1 Inch Abbey The 12th century Inch Abbey and its surrounds were used as the setting to shoot COMBER Hooster Tully’s funeral. carryduff Greyabbey Ballywalter ballygowan Kircubbin Whiterock saintfield 2 KILLINCHY Riverrun ARDS The setting for Robs victory in Season One. saintfield PENINSULA Estate Cloughey Shrigley KILLYLEAGH ballynahinch PORTAFERRY Castle ward 3 4 3 QUOILE River 2 Winterfell Audley’s Field Castle Ward is home to Audleys Tower which was used STRANGFORD during season one as King Robert Baratheon and his retinue arrive at Winterfell. inch abbey 1 DOWNPATRICK Ballyhornan Seaforde castlewellan Ardglass 4 Robb Stark’s Camp Killough This is where Rob Stark pitched his camp Dundrum Bay and where he finds himself first attracted to Talisa. Tollymore 5 Forest Park Newcastle newry 5 T he Haunted Forest Tollymore is used for the opening sequence to the series where sandy Brae the viewer is first introduced to the land north of The Wall. This map is produced by Destination Mourne Mountains&Ring of Gullion, Destination Strangford Lough and Downpatrick - St Patricks Country. It is not sponsored, endorsed, Warrenpoint or affiliated with HBO or anyone associated with Game of Thrones. Game of Thrones County Down Mourne Mountains Location Map Follow in the footsteps of the stars on this Game of T hrones Castle Ward HBO’s award-winning series Game Of T hrones™ has locator map. captured the imagination of television viewers across the world. Locations, locations, locations! Hooked on the show’s intoxicating mix of medieval warfare, Now you too can walk north of The Wall, breathe the same air as the Night’s Watch, stroll in the footsteps of Robb Stark’s soldiers, and pass murder, mysticism, and intrigue, they fanatically follow every through the gateway to Vaes Dothrak. This Game of Thrones map is Machiavellian twist and turn of the storyline. T he battle for the a voyage of discovery that lets you experience the fantasy world of author George R.R. Martin for yourself. Plotting a path through the Iron T hrone takes place across the most dramatic of landscapes, scenic splendour of the Seven Kingdoms, it takes you to where so many of the pivotal scenes were shot. with County Down representing everything from T he Riverlands For more information contact one of the following Visitor Information Centres: to Winterfell, Craster’s Keep to Godswood. Ards Visitor Information Centre Newcastle Visitor Information Centre 31 Regent Street 10-14 Central Promenade Newtownards BT23 4AD Newcastle BT33 0AA 028 9182 6846 028 4372 2222 Downpatrick Visitor Information Centre Newry Visitor Information Centre The Saint Patrick Centre Bagenal’s Castle 53a Market Street Downpatrick BT30 6LZ Castle Street Newry BT34 2BY 028 4461 2233 028 3031 3170 visitstrangfordlough.co.uk visitmournemountains.co.uk [email protected] [email protected] Castle Ward, overlooking for more supplies to treat the rides through the snow and Belfast Hills to the north, and east Strangford Lough, has been home wounded; and Robb’s invite to her discovers the gruesome sight of to the high Mournes. Stand for a to the Ward family since the to accompany him to the Crag. dismembered Wildling bodies. moment and it’s easy to see how 16th century. The 18th century The Game of Thrones cameras He encounters a White Walker you might buy into local myth that mansion house is a unique again rolled into action to record and gallops away. This rugged surround places like Maggie’s Leap blend of both classical and Jamie Lannister’s capture and landscape is also where Ned Stark (supposedly named after a local girl gothic architectural styles, whilst imprisonment in a stockade by and the boys come across a stag threw herself into the chasm whilst the beautiful 820-acre walled the Starks. Cateyln goes to talk that has been gored and the feral fleeing soldiers); or to imagine the demesne with its gardens and to him and later poor Ser Alton direwolf pups. Not surprisingly haunting screams of the Blue Lady woodland is nothing short of meets his end here when the given the untamed nature of the (abandoned by her husband) being idyllic. Focal point of the vista Kingslayer murders him and landscape, Tollymore was also carried away on the fresh mountain Mourne Mountains along Castle Ward’s artificial a guard in making his escape. used for the opening sequence air. The Mountains of Mourne truly lake (Temple Water) is Audley’s Devotees of Game of Thrones to the series when the viewer is are breathtaking. Depart Northern Ireland’s vibrant of the North. He then takes his Tower, a 15th century castle set will no doubt also recall the first introduced to the land north capital city Belfast via the A24 army to the edge of the Trident, within a courtyard (originally scene where Robb and Talisa talk of The Wall. Time now to complete the last leg towards Saintfield. Travelling sending his mother Catelyn to owned by Anglo-Norman family about having to marry a Frey to of the journey. The places you see, along the A7 for just over bargain with Water Frey in an the Audleys). gain permission for his army to The Mourne Mountains are a and people you meet, will continue 10-miles you will come across a attempt to cross at the Twins. cross the bridge at the Twins; walker’s nirvana, with staggering to enrich and enthral as you head sign for Inch Abbey, a secluded Audley’s Tower was used during their wedding after a whirlwind panoramic views from points inland through Castlewellan, spot just off the main road, you If you haven’t quite had your Season One as King Robert romance; and Catelyn’s stark like Eagle Mountain, the highest Banbridge, Lisburn, and back to will come to the 1st Games of fill of historical drama then Baratheon and his retinue arrive warning to her son that there peak in the western Mournes. Belfast - bringing the curtain down Thrones location in this area. The Downpatrick should satiate even at Winterfell and it was on the will be consequences when word From here you can survey Slieve on the Destination Strangford Lough abbey was built on the site of a the most voluminous appetite. surrounding lands that Robert reaches the Freys. Foye and the Cooleys to the and Destination Mourne Mountains previous settlement known as Spoiled for choice, you can pick told his old friend during the west, the distant Sperrins and Games of Thrones itinerary. Inis-Cumhscraigh (dating back from the aforementioned burial hunt: “There’s a war coming Time now to head south along to 800AD) by Englishman John place of Saint Patrick at Down Ned”. Young Bran Stark’s dream the Shore Road, through Ardglass De Courcy as atonement for his Cathedral, The Saint Patrick sequence, seen through the eyes and on to the foot of the destruction of Erenagah Abbey Centre, Struell Wells (a place of a raven, was also partly filmed magnificent Mourne Mountains. in 1177. De Courcy, arrived with of pilgrimage from 1660 until here. The Castle Ward lands It was one of Ireland’s foremost the plan to wrest lands from the 1840), or even Down County represented north of Storm’s End songwriters and entertainers local chiefs, descendants of the Museum housed in the old in Season Two where Brienne Percy French who penned: Viking King Ullagh. Fortifications county gaol. of Tarth swears fealty to Lady “Where the mountains of Mourne became something of an Catelyn Stark as they make their sweep down to the sea”, and it’s obsession for the knight from Departing Downpatrick along way along the road following hard not to be inspired by the Somerset with Carrickfergus the A25 to Strangford your first Renly’s death. The most extensive wonderful vista that greets you. and Dundrum Castles his two port of call Quoile River – Hoster use of the area, however, was as Travel along Newcastle’s Central major strongholds. Although not Tully’s Funeral which featured in site for The Riverlands. Promenade before making your immediately obvious, Inch Abbey episode 3 of series 3. (‘Walk Of way to Tollymore Forest Park, the was erected on an island that is Punishment’). Audley’s Tower Field was where first state forest park in Northern accessed by a causeway, with Robb Stark pitched his camp. Ireland (established in 1955). the River Quoile to the south and Continuing along the scenic It’s also here that he first finds Covering an area of 1600-acres, marshland to the north. Visible in Strangford Road there is likely himself attracted to Talisa, it boasts a myriad of walking the distance is Down Cathedral, to be a very real sense of although his mother is quick trails that can be traversed to the burial place of Saint Patrick, familiarity as you approach to warn him off and remind gurgling accompaniment of the Ireland’s patron saint. Audley’s Tower and Castle Ward. her son that he is promised to Shimna River. Both were used extensively in another (the daughter of Walter Here , on the shores of the Quoile Game of Thrones and it isn’t Frey).