Sport
- Castlewellan GAC is based in the village.
- Castlewellan Town FC are the local Football team
- Castlewellan lake plays host to the Irish University Rowing Championships and Queen's Regatta annually in April.
- Kilmegan Amateur Boxing Club is situated in the outskirts of the town (taking its name from the towns parish name).
- Castlewellan Forest Park Played Host To The All British Open Field Archery Championships Put On And Arranged By Ballyvally Archery Club Banbridge The Weekend Of May 28–29, 2011
Read more about this topic: Castlewellan
Famous quotes containing the word sport:
“Serious sport has nothing to do with fair play. It is bound up with hatred, jealousy, boastfulness, disregard of all rules and sadistic pleasure in witnessing violence: in other words it is war minus the shooting.
”
—George Orwell (1903–1950)
“Sweet Auburn, loveliest village of the plain,
Where health and plenty cheered the labouring swain,
Where smiling spring its earliest visit paid,
And parting summer’s lingering blooms delayed,
Dear lovely bowers of innocence and ease,
Seats of my youth, when every sport could please,
How often have I loitered o’er the green,
Where humble happiness endeared each scene.”
—Oliver Goldsmith (1730?–1774)