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Castlewellan Lake

Loch Chaisleán Uidhilín

Castlewellan Lake covers 42 ha with 3.9 km of shore, 28.0 km south-west of Omeath.

Getting to the water

A public road or path on the map comes within 4 m of the shore, along about 2.0 km of it, and there are 2 more stretches like it elsewhere on the shore. That is what the map contains. It is not a statement that the public may walk there, because OpenStreetMap does not record permission, and nobody has checked this lake against its owner.

42 ha
of water
3.9 km
of shore
3
stretches of shore a way reaches
4
viewpoints within 2.5 km
Area
42 ha measured from the mapped outline
Shore
3.9 km around the outline
County
Not established
In Irish
Loch Chaisleán Uidhilín
Public access
A public way reaches the shoreMeasured from the map, not from a statement of permission
On the map
OpenStreetMap record

No openly licensed photograph of Castlewellan Lake was found. Rather than show a picture of somewhere else, this page shows none.

Where it is

The pin sits from the main access point on the shore, and every distance on this page is measured from that same point. The other pins are the nearest lakes in the county.

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Parking, viewpoints and stops

Everything here is measured from the main access point on the shore. A viewpoint is a place that looks at the lake, which is not the same as a place on it.

Parking

An unnamed car park is 40 m away, and the walk from it to the shore is 60 m along mapped paths. The map records nothing about a charge.

Viewpoints
  • An unnamed viewpoint730 m
  • An unnamed viewpoint910 m
  • An unnamed viewpoint1.7 km
  • An unnamed viewpoint1.8 km
Nearest stops
  • Bannon's Cottage760 m
  • Bannon's Cottage760 m
  • St Malachy's High School800 m
  • Lower Square850 m

Getting to Castlewellan Lake

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Public transport times come from National Transport Authority. Timetables cover 2026-09-18 to 2027-09-19. These are scheduled services; check with the operator for cancellations and changes before travelling.

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How journey planning works
Destination, access and nearby stops

Castlewellan Lake is in Omeath, County Louth. Routes here end at the stretch of shore a public way reaches, which this site measured on the ground. A car park is recorded 61 m from the water, about 1 minutes on foot.

Omeath is the nearest settlement, 28.0 km south-west of the lake. Arriving in Omeath is not arriving at the water, so the journeys below are worked out to the water and say so when they cannot reach it.
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Stops near it

No scheduled stop was found within 2.5 km of Castlewellan Lake. On-demand services may not be included.

Getting to Omeath covers the journeys into the town itself.

Questions people ask

Can you walk to Castlewellan Lake?
A public road or path comes within 4 m of the shore, along about 2.0 km of it. That is what the map shows; it is not a statement of permission, which the map does not record.
How big is Castlewellan Lake?
42 ha, with 3.9 km of shore, measured from the outline OpenStreetMap holds.
Where can you park for Castlewellan Lake?
A car park is 40 m away, and the walk from it to the shore is 60 m along mapped paths.
How do you get to Castlewellan Lake without a car?
No scheduled bus or train in the national timetable reaches Omeath, the nearest settlement.

Where this comes from

The lake itself
The outline, the name and the identifiers are OpenStreetMap records. Correct it there
What this site measured
The area and the shore are worked out from that outline. The stretches of shore a way reaches, the walk in from a car park and every distance on this page are worked out here, on this site’s own graph of the OpenStreetMap ways, last built on 2026-09-20. These are this site’s calculations, not the map’s, and a mistake in them is a mistake here.