Nice print titled Narrow Water Castle (Newry-River ), from steel engraving with fine detail and clear impression. Overall size is 27 x 21 cm, image size is 18 x 12 cm. Print was published in: The Scenery and Antiquities of Ireland. Illustrated in one hundred and twenty engravings, from drawings by W.H. Bartlett, London, James S. Virtue, 1840-1842.

Narrow Water Castle

Narrow Water Castle (Irish: Caisleán an Chaoil; Ulster-Scots:  Narra Wattèr Castle) is a famous 16th-century tower house and bawn near  Warrenpoint in Northern Ireland. It is beside the A2 road and on the County Down  bank of the Clanrye River, which enters Carlingford Lough a mile to the south.  Narrow Water Castle was given into state care in 1956. It is a state care  historic monument in the townland of Narrow Water, in Newry and Mourne District  Council district, at grid ref: J1256 1939.

In 1212, a keep was built on the site by Hugh de Lacy, first Earl of Ulster, to  prevent river-borne attacks on Newry. In the 1560s, the tower house and bawn  were built. It is a typical example of the tower houses built throughout Ireland  from the 14th until the early 17th century. This kind of building, normally  rectangular in plan and three or more storeys high, comprised a series of  superimposed chambers, with stairs, closets and latrines skillfully contrived  within the walls (which are 1.5 metres or five feet thick in places) or  sometimes contained in projecting angle turrets.

The original was destroyed in the 1641 Rebellion.

Nowadays, cruises past the castle are a regular feature throughout the summer  months.

On 27 August 1979, 18 British Army soldiers were killed by a Provisional IRA  ambush at Narrow Water Castle (see Narrow Water ambush). It was the greatest  single loss of life for the British Army during The Troubles.