We took a week's holiday at the end of November.
A friend of us has a house in Cranfield, which he wasn't using and very generously loaned it to us for the week.
It's in a beautiful location just at the beach with the Mourne Mountains behind us.
Weather was beautiful, clear blue skies all week but frosty.

It was great to sit reading in the conservatory and watch the light changing around the Haulbowline Lighthouse.

The lighthouse was built in 1818. The original light floated on a bed of mercury and was turned by a heavy lead weight on a chain which slowly dropped the length of the lighthouse. One of the Lighthouse Keeper's jobs was to winch the lead weight up again every 40 minutes!
We spent a lot of time walking and geocaching in the Mournes.

Rostrevor village is a couple of miles down the road. Pleasant village and the birthplace of Major General Robert Ross, after whom the village is named, and who burned the Whitehouse in Washington, during the American War of Independence. Visited his Monument on the outskirts of the village.

(The following is from Wikipeda.) "Rostrevor was the birthplace of Major General Robert Ross-of-Bladensburg, a British commander during the American War of Independence. After defeating an American force at Bladensburgh in 1814, he entered Washington on August 24 and burned many buildings including the White House. Not long after, he was killed at the Battle of Baltimore."

Walked into Greencastle, a couple of miles along the beach and saw another of John de Courcy's castles. (He also built them at Carrickfergus, Newcastle, Dundrum and so forth.) The following is from Wikipedia again. "It is a royal castle built in the 13th century. It was attacked and taken by Edward Bruce in 1316, attacked at least twice by the Irish in the later 14th century but still maintained as an English garrison in the 1590s."

Also searched out a number of local dolmen. This is one of them in a field not far from the house.