Closkelt

Belvoir Park Forest

Stranmillis · 19 miles

Along the River Lagan, a 75-hectare urban woodland provides a rare example of a working forest within a city. Managed by the Forest Service and listed as a nature reserve, the site lies close to Stranmillis in Belfast, Northern Ireland. Its status as a working forest makes it unique across the United Kingdom, and it is recognised for the presence of red squirrels among its resident wildlife. The area opened to the public in 1961 after being incorporated into the former estate of the Hills family, who enclosed the land in the 1740s. Remnants of that period survive as farm buildings and an ice house built into a 12th-century Norman motte. The original house has been removed, its footprint now occupied by a car park. Within the grounds the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds maintains its Northern Ireland headquarters, and an arboretum holds some of Belfast’s oldest and most unusual trees, including around one hundred veteran oaks that can be up to 350 years old. Wildlife surveys record a range of species such as large bracket fungi, toothwort, giant hog-weed, long-eared owls, kingfishers, long-tailed tits, badgers and red foxes. Cycling is prohibited within the forest, but the car park offers a point of access for visitors wishing to explore the trails on foot.

Let's Go Hydro

Carryduff · 17 miles

Red Kite Restreat

Closkelt · 0.1 miles

The Red Kite Retreat is Ireland's only red kite feeding and viewing station. The red kites are fed daily at 2pm. Viewing is from a hide. A charge applies.

The Wildling Pit

Bryansford · 8.1 miles

The exact clearing and mossy bank used for the opening scene of Season 1, Episode 1 where the Night's Watch discover Wildling bodies.

The Starks Find Direwolf Pups

Bryansford · 8.1 miles

The bridge and large flat rock where the Starks find a dead direwolf and her pups

Ser Arlan's Grave

Cabra · 9.3 miles

The exact location south of Hen Mountain where Ser Duncan the Tall buries his master, Ser Arlan of Pennytree