Come and Visit Carlingford

Myth & Legends

Day after day, Cúculainn faced the champions of Queen Medhbh's army of Connacht at a ford not far from M1/Junction 18.  High on the ridge of the Cooley Mountains you can see the great stone pile of Carnawaddy, where Fionn Mac Cumhail's wolfhound Bran is buried - although some people claim to have seen it streaking away in the mist quite recently. A Viking colony at  Narrow Water on Carlingford Lough is thought to have been the home of Isolde or Iseult, daughter of a Viking chief who was betrothed to the king of Cornwall. Her boatman was Tristan, and Richard Wagner made them famous in his opera from 1865.