Rostrevor Travel Guide

The Fiddler's Green Hall of Fame Award, designed by the late and much loved Rostrevor artist, Jim Sherry, is presented annually to a person or group who has made a significant contribution to the cause of Irish music and culture. Past recipients are:

2003 The Boy's of the Lough
2002 Ronnie Drew
2001 Andy Irvine
2000 The Sands Family
1999 Finbar Furey
1998 Altan
1997 De Dannan
1996 The Dubliners
1995 Dolores Keane
1994 The Clancy Brothers
1993 Liam O'Flynn
1992 Maire Brennan
1991 Mick Maloney
1990 Joe Burke
1989 Tommy Makem
1988 David Hammond
1987 Sean Maguire

This Years Recipient
The Boy's of the Lough

Every Tuesday night & Friday night from 10pm until ...???

The greatest place to hear AND participate in real Irish music & story telling - everyone is welcome to join in! Just bring your instrument or, if you don't have one, come without - before the evening's over you might end up with one for the night ;o)

I'm learning to play the Bodhrán (see pic) and I get a lot of incouragement from the musicians & great fun out of it - so, don't let us down by not showing up one of these days!!!

To see more pictures of the most recent sessions - check out the Travelogue!!!!

Dress Code: whatever you feel comfortable in :o)

Favorite thing: ROSTREVOR is best described as 'The sweetest little watering hole to be found in the Three Kingdoms and one of the most beautiful spots in Ireland', (Murrays Handbook 1896). Rostrevor takes its name from its Landlords of 1641, Sir Eward Trevor, whose wife was named Rose, therefore 'Rostrevor'. The village is in the Parish of Kilbroney, ('Cill' a Church and 'Broney' of Bronach). St. Bronach is the Patron Saint of these parts... an Abbess who lived in the 6th Century. Many of her relics can still be found in the area, especially in Kilbroney Graveyard.
CLOUGHMORE (BIG STONE): Cloughmore a 30-ton Granite boulder lies on the Mountain Ridge approximately 1000 ft. above Rostrevor village, where the above photo was taken. Geologists describe Cloughmore as a spectacular remnant of the Ice Age but local folklore is much more colourful and relates the Stone to Finn McCool (Legendary Irish Giant).
Rostrevor is situated in the foothills of the Mourne Mountains overlooking Carlingford Lough, on the east coast of Ireland, approximately 60 miles south of Belfast and 70 miles north of Dublin.