The Showgrounds

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The Showgrounds is a football stadium in Newry, County Down, Northern Ireland. It was the home ground of Newry City F.C. and is now the home ground of their successor club, Newry City A.F.C. The stadium holds 7,949, but is currently restricted to 2,275 under safety legislation. ()

Alternative names: Opened: 1923 (101 years ago)Coordinates: 54°9'1"N, 6°19'14"W

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Northern IrelandUnited Kingdom

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The Showgrounds – popular in the area (distance from the attraction)

Nearby attractions include: Kilbroney Park, Newry Cathedral, Newry Town Hall, Slieve Gullion.

6.4 miSE
Park
Kilbroney Park, Rostrevor
163 min walk • Kilbroney Park is a park near Rostrevor in Northern Ireland. Formerly a country estate, it was visited by William Makepeace Thackeray, Charles Dickens and Seamus Heaney and may have been the inspiration for Narnia in the writings of C. S. Lewis.
1.8 miNW
Church, Gothic Revival architecture
Newry Cathedral, Newry
46 min walk • Newry Cathedral or the Cathedral of Saint Patrick and Saint Colman is a Roman Catholic cathedral located in Newry, Northern Ireland. It acts as the seat of the Bishop of Dromore, and the Mother church of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Dromore.
2 miN
Walking tours, Ghost and vampire tours, City tours
Newry Town Hall, Newry
51 min walk • Newry Town Hall is a municipal structure in Bank Parade in Newry, Northern Ireland. It was built on a specially-constructed bridge across the Newry River, which forms part of the historic border between County Armagh and County Down.
4.7 miW
Nature, Natural attraction, Volcano
Slieve Gullion, Newry
121 min walk • Slieve Gullion is a mountain in the south of County Armagh, Northern Ireland. The mountain is the heart of the Ring of Gullion and is the highest point in the county, with an elevation of 573 metres.
1.7 miN
54°10'22"N • 6°20'9"W
Newry and Mourne Museum, Newry
43 min walk • History museum, Museum
6.6 miSE
Nature, Natural attraction, Forest
Rostrevor Forest, Rostrevor
168 min walk • Rostrevor Forest is located near the village of Rostrevor, County Down, Northern Ireland. It lies between the Mourne Mountains and Carlingford Lough, in the Mourne Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty.
7.2 miSE
Nature, Fjord, Natural attraction
Carlingford Lough
185 min walk • Carlingford Lough is a glacial fjord or sea inlet in northeastern Ireland, forming part of the border between Northern Ireland to the north and the Republic of Ireland to the south.
3.5 miNW
54°11'38"N • 6°22'2"W
Craigmore Viaduct, Newry
91 min walk • Historical place, Bridge
6.3 miSE
Archaeological site
Cloughmore, Rostrevor
162 min walk • Cloughmore or Cloghmore, known locally as "The Big Stone", is a huge granite boulder perched on a mountainside almost 1,000 feet above the village of Rostrevor, County Down, Northern Ireland. It sits on the slopes of Slieve Martin in Kilbroney Park, overlooking Rostrevor Forest, Carlingford Lough and the Cooley Peninsula.
1.8 miN
Church
Saint Patrick's, Newry
47 min walk • Saint Patrick's Church is a Church of Ireland church in Newry, County Down, Northern Ireland. The church is believed to have been built in 1578 on the instructions of Nicholas Bagenal, who was granted the monastery lands by Edward VI, and is considered to be the first Protestant church in Ireland.
3 miNW
Bridge
MacNeill's Egyptian Arch
76 min walk • Macneill's Egyptian Arch is a railway bridge in Newry, Northern Ireland. Construction was completed in 1851 for the Dublin and Belfast Junction Railway Company and was the result of collaboration between engineer Sir John Macneill and constructor William Dargan.