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Our farmhouse overlooks Narrow Water on Carlingford Lough, immediately below the Flagstaff Viewpoint, with views to the Mournes.

It is a 10-minute walk from Cornamucklagh House Bar and Restaurant.

12/01/2023

Good Friday Agreement 25 years on:
Anniversary, bedside vigil or wake?

The Dolmen Centre in Omeath is about 2km from Quarvue Farmhouse and Loft

23/12/2022

Merry Christmas from Quarvue Farmhouse. Read about "Me, the goat and the Baroness" on quarvue.ie, local history section

14/11/2022

KNOW THY LANDLORD
This cool dude is Francis Charles Needham, Viscount Newry and Mourne and later 3rd Earl of Kilmorey, as pictured by Vanity Fair in 1876. He cut quite a dash on the London scene as an actor and theatre owner and financier of the rebuilding of the Globe Theatre. He could afford it since his family owned 42,000 acres in Armagh, 3000 in Down and more in Shropshire. Some neighbours had more: the Earl of Charlemont had 21,000 acres and the Annesleys over in Castlewellan had 23,000. The Marquess of Downshire had 62,000 and his family had as much again in England. Everything Needham owned had been seized by his ancestor Nicholas Bagenal who may have left Staffordshire with a price on his head in the 1540s. He landed on his feet in Newry, right place and right time when Henry VIII was dissolving the monasteries. The boul' Nicholas managed to grab all the land of the Cistercian Abbey. Read about how other landlords got their estates in the local history section of the Quarvue Farmhouse website, quarvue.ie

09/11/2022

On the slopes of Slieve Foye about 4km from Quarvue Farmhouse, a memorial to the local volunteers who fought and died with the International Brigade fighting fascism in the Spanish Civil War. Many Irish volunteers died defending the Bridge of Jarama as Franco's army tried to encircle Madrid. No pasaran!

21/09/2022

Fathom Woods, about 1km from Quarvue Farmhouse. There is a waymarked trail running about 1.6km from Victoria Lock to the Flagstaff Viewpoint, but that is only a fraction of what the woods have to offer. They stretch about 4.5km north/south with three main forestry roads running most of the distance and a number of criss-crossing tracks, some of them overgrown and great for a bit of creative exploration. The trails are hard to find - unless, of course, you know where we put up our little guide markers. We could also draw you a little map. See the Local History section at quarvue.ie

21/09/2022

The waterfall in Fathom Wood about 400 metres from Quarvue Farmhouse. The stream, which is the international border at this point, separates the townlands of Cornamucklagh (Louth) and Upper Fathom (Armagh). It is called the Owencoggery (abhann coigchríoch = boundary stream) and was first mentioned in Plantation of Ulster documents from 1612. It flows down from the mountain parallel with Larry Tam's Loanan which was once our main road to the Gap of the North and a major pilgrimage route. For more information see the Local History section at quarvue.ie

21/09/2022

Greer's Quay, about 5km from Quarvue Farmhouse. It was built in 1847-48 as a famine relief work - stones were brought from the mountainside on a sling system. Greer was a landlord who lived in what later became the Táin Centre - he left in a huff when the Greenore railway was built through his back garden in the 1870s. More information in the Local History section at quarvue.ie

21/09/2022

The Cornamucklagh Famine Wall can be seen from Quarvue Farmhouse. It was built as a public relief work in 1847-48 by men working for 10d (old pence) a day - women got 4d for carrying stones in canvas aprons. There may be more than 40km of these purposeless walls in Cooley and the Ring of Gullion. More information in the Local History section, quarvue.ie

18/09/2022

Season of mellow fruitfulness at Quarvue Farmhouse

11/09/2022

Flafstaff Viewpoint overlooking Narrow Water is less than 1km from Quarvue Farmhouse. See quarvue.ie for local history and folklore

09/09/2022

Welcome to Quarvue.

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Quarvue
Omeath

Website

http://quarvue.ie/

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