Maghera Inn

Located in Maghera, close to Dundrum, this pub never fails to impress. Food served daily, Beef and Guinness pie with champ is my personal favourite. Daily specials normally consist of fresh fish dishes, locally sourced.
The bar is wheelchair accessible.
Staff are extremely attentive and friendly.
Great Guinness.
It is best to book for lunch at the weekend as it gets extremely busy. Views surrounding the bar are stunning due to it being located close to the mournes.
Well worth a visit.

About 45 minutes outside Belfast depending on who is driving (or navigating!), lying at the foot of the Mournes is the wonderful Maghera Inn.
I had been here before, years ago, but couldn’t tell you how to find it until we came across it by accident again and what joy! Turns out it is dead easy to find– take the left turn at the Castlewellan roundabout, keep going, turn left for Maghera, sorted.
Going through the small green door you cannot help but feel welcome with the winning combo of friendly staff and roaring fire. Instantly you feel you wish someone wasn’t driving and you could get home after dumping the car and making a session of it.
We were starving, and ordered drinks while we perused the menu. It too a while — the perusing, not the drinks– as there was such a selection. I ended up going for the lasagne, my friend having a burger, that when it arrived you could barely see her behind it, it was so big. The lasagne was creamy and herby and surprisingly not heavy considering the big plate of food it was. One of our party even fell asleep in the car on the way home in a very contented-​big-​lunch kinda way.
Three of us had a fab lunch with beers for only £45, and were planning a return visit before we even got home. High praise indeed!

I went to this restaurant during my business trip to Ireland since I wanted to go to an authentic Irish pub and Maghera Inn was voted food pub of the year in 2007 and second place in 2009. This restaurant was amazing. I ordered Dundrum Bay Mussels and Maghera Inn Sizzling Platter. The staff was friendly and provided our party a free round of Irish cream dessert shot to end our meal. I recommend going to this Irish pub