Budget self catering, backpackers,  B&B accommodation, Portaferry, County Down, Northern Ireland 
Barholm House, 11 The Strand, Portaferry,  Strangford Lough, Co. Down. Northern Ireland
Travel Ireland self catering accommodations & lodgings: Portaferry, Co Down, N. Ireland

Barholm
Budget Self Catering Edwardian House
11 The Strand, Portaferry, Co. Down, Northern Ireland BT22 1PF
Telephone: +44 (0)28 4272 9598  Fax: +44 (0)28 4272 9784

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Barholm is a lovely Edwardian House which overlooks Strangford Lough. We offer comfortable accommodation for up to 48 people, with a choice of single, double, family or group rooms.

With a large conservatory adjoining the house, you can enjoy your meals whilst looking over the Lough, and the beautiful scenery.

We have a large fully equipped kitchen for self-catering, but we also have excellent caterers who can provide one or all of your meals at reasonable cost,  all home cooked on the premises.

Conference facilities are available, and are suitable for seminars, workshops and functions. We seat up to 50 theatre style.

We are the ideal location for divers, and have a compressor on site for air fills, and an airing room for suits. The ferry is directly opposite us, and diving clubs make use of the slip when launching their RIBS. The Portferry Marina is located approximately 200 metres distance from Barholm.

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Strangford Lough is the largest sea inlet in the British Isles with a meandering shoreline of 15O miles. This gigantic inland sea, has about 120 small islands and is surrounded almost entirely by land. This means there is an enormous diversity of easily accessible diving sites. Quite simply, Strangford Lough is unique, a marine biologist's paradise. Strangford boasts some 15 divable wrecks.

The Lough is connected to the sea by a long narrows where the sea is usually flat and calm. This belies the fierce currents of up to 8 knots and depths of 80 metres which can make this as adventurous a dive as anyone could wish for. Sheer cliffs are covered by luxurious growths of dead men’s fingers and big sponges which, even at slack water, makes the dive exciting.

The life on the seabed and around the many wrecks is varied and prolific with urchins, anemones, sea squirts, scallops, crabs, prawns and even octopus. The scampi prawn is common in the Lough and can often be seen on the mud or outside its burrows.

The variety of marine life and good visibility, 4-l0 m plus, make Strangford Lough an excellent site for underwater photography.

ACCOMMODATION
Up to 48 people in a choice of single, double, family or group rooms.

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Single rooms
Group rooms
Double rooms (with en-suite facilities)
Family rooms (with en-suite facilities)
 

NEARBY
Royal County Down Golf Club, Castle Ward, Strangford village, Portaferry, Ards Peninsula, seals, wildlife, bird watching, Newtownards Airfield and Ulster Flying Club, Exploris Aquarium, scuba diving, sailing, fishing, bird watching, pony trekking, cycling, and walking. This accommodation is situated within the Kingdoms of Down area of the north of Ireland.