Northern Ireland Outdoors Forum - Hiking, camping and more
General => Meets, places, trips and reviews => Topic started by: DryBag on August 13, 2009
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We just got back from a week in Kilbroney campsite. Here's a few thoughts.
It's in a great spot. Just at the south end of the Mournes, right at the foot of Slieve Martin and on the shores of carlingford lough.
It's very cheap at a tenner a night.
They take security very seriously - there's cameras dotted around the site, security guards doing hourly rounds during the night and you need a pass card to get in or out or to use the washing facilities. As my wife said "It makes you wonder why it's necessary" but I know it helped me sleep better than any other public campsite I've been to.
There's a good public play park and tennis courts.
We didn't use the laundry, but there is one if you need it. There's only one toilet block with dishwashing and waste facilities, but it's kept very clean and it's pretty central.
the cafe's only opened from about 11 to about 4, so we were never in it.
The "No Open Fires" rule is generally ignored, and my kelly kettle got put to good use.
The site is right in among the trees. We were pitched facing the road, but if we looked out the back of the tent we could easily have been in the middle of the forest. There's plenty of wee trails and streams and tracks for the kids to explore, and Rostrevor Forest goes on for miles, so if you didn't have toddlers you could easily use it as a gateway to the Mournes. If you've got a boat with you, Carlingford Lough is great for flat water paddling. I didn't go all the way to Newry canal, so I don't know what access is like there.
There's aren't many bad points to note. the main one is that the ground slopes. Even the hard stands for caravans aren't flat (how do you pour concrete on a slope?) and although they've made some effort to level off sites, none of them are spirit-level flat.
Drainage isn't perfect so it got a bit muddy, but when the rain stopped the ground did dry out reasonably quickly.
It's a good site, and I'll be back when the kids have grown up a bit.
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Sounds good, i'll give it a go with the family cause def no going back to Tollymore
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I thought you were into wild camping?
Getting stabbed 9 times is about as wild as you can get!
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Theres wild camping and there s crazy camping i'll take my chances high in the Mournes with torrential rain and snow, but when someone pulls a knife to settle an argument i'm outta there. :D
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sounds good.
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Thanks for the post, sounds like a nice place, was there many on the site ???
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Think I'll be trying to avoid campsites more now. I prefer to be a little more remote - just need a few spots I can drag a child too!
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Think I'll be trying to avoid campsites more now. I prefer to be a little more remote - just need a few spots I can drag a child too!
Are you sure that is correct Jono.......
You could end up in trouble dragging a child into the wilds if not end up on a registrar somewhere :P
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Think I'll be trying to avoid campsites more now. I prefer to be a little more remote - just need a few spots I can drag a child too!
Are you sure that is correct Jono.......
You could end up in trouble dragging a child into the wilds if not end up on a registrar somewhere :P
Maybe I didn't totally word that the best :D