Narrow Water Castle / Newry Man Lost
NARROW WATER CASTLE
Earlier today I had the pleasure of visiting this amazing architectural master piece to plan out our Murder Mystery event which we are holding there later in the year and I couldn’t resist the urge to photograph the stunning location while I was there.
Narrow Water Castle is a large, imposing Tudor-Revival mansion of about 1836, by Thomas Duff of Newry. It replaced an earlier house, known as Mount Hall, of which a wing survives.
At one corner of the entrance front there is a gatehouse tower with four cupolas, inspired by various English originals, such as the gatehouse at Tixall in Staffordshire.
The granite stone for the new Victorian mansion came from the family estate at Mullaghglass in County Armagh. Many of the interior features, like the library fireplace, were carved by Curran and Sons of Lisburn.
William Hall is believed to have arrived in Ulster in 1640, settling in Red Bay, County Antrim. His son, Francis Hall, is said to have purchased the original Narrow Water Castle estate, including the town of Warrenpoint, in the 17th century for £1,500 and constructed Mount Hall, the family residence prior to Narrow Water Castle, in 1707.
