Places to visit in County Down

The Discover Alone map has 7,205 places, people and events in County Down, Ireland. Most of the places are free to visit. Choose a kind of place, or open the map to see what is near you.

Kinds of place in County Down

• Archaeology and monuments (3,947)
• Things to do (825)
• Historic places (560)
• Memorials and graveyards (425)
• Viewpoints and information (266)
• Wrecks and historic events (218)
• Walking routes (197)
• Mountains and hills (134)
• Woods, forests and old trees (113)
• Castles and forts (103)
• Islands (77)
• Cliffs, bays and coast (66)
• Beaches and strands (7)

Some of the best-recorded places in County Down

• Wood IslandIsletWood Island Light stood as Maine’s southernmost navigational beacon from 1808 until 1829, guiding heavy merchant…
• WINDMILL STUMP: PORTAFERRY WINDMILL (c.f. IHR 3264 for details) in TullyboardWINDMILL STUMP: PORTAFERRY WINDMILL (c.f. IHR 3264 for details)Portaferry windmill stands as a scheduled stump in County Down, a broken remnant from the nineteenth century that once…
• WINDMILL STUMPWINDMILL STUMP — IHR 03039WINDMILL STUMP in County Down, Ireland, is a nineteenth-century Scheduled monument where a vanished mill once twisted…
• Windmill StumpRuinsWindmill Stump is a ruins in County Down, Ireland. Believed to have been built in the 1760s, this remains of a windmill…
• Windmill StumpWindmill Stump — cf IHR 2800Windmill Stump in County Down, Ireland, marks an eighteenth-century site where a mill once turned local grain into…
• White's FortArchaeological placeWhite's Fort anchors the birth of Knoxville, Tennessee, when James White raised a defensible post on the…
• Warrenpoint Parish ChurchChurchWarrenpoint Parish Church is a church in Warrenpoint Parish Church Church Street Warrenpoint Newry Co Down BT34 2AH…
• Warrenpoint ambushambushWarrenpoint remains the bloodiest trap ever set against British soldiers, where eighteen men died near Narrow Water…
• Victoria Crosses of the 36th Ulster DivisionMemorialVictoria Crosses of the 36th Ulster Division stands in County Down, honouring men who faced gunfire with little more…
• UNCERTAIN: CASTLE COMMOGUE in GowardUNCERTAIN: CASTLE COMMOGUEUncertainty itself has taken up residence in Goward, wearing the shape of a castle and refusing to be named. The…
• Ulster BankBankUlster Bank is a bank in Ulster Bank 22 Bridge Street Banbridge Co Down BT32 3JT, Tullyear, County Down, Ireland. This…
• Ulster BankBankUlster Bank is a bank in Ulster Bank 30 New Street Donaghadee Co. Down, Donaghadee, County Down, Ireland. The building…