Venue Castlewellan – Forest Park
Date Sat, 8th Nov 25
Starts 18:00 to 20:00
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Event Description
| Date | Saturday 8 November 2025 (Postponed from February due to storm damage) | ||||||||||||
| Venue | Castlewellan (To be confirmed based on storm damage) | ||||||||||||
| Event Format | Northern Ireland Night Championships | ||||||||||||
| Online Entry | . |
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| SI Entries |   |
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| Online Entry closes | Midnight, Monday 3 November 2025 | ||||||||||||
| Registration, Start and Finish | TBC | ||||||||||||
| Price (TBC) |
Join a NI Club today (choose from LVO, FERMO and NWOC) and benefit from our reduced member rates for the rest of 2025.
*Member includes IOA and IOF.
**Family is the equivalent of 2 seniors + 1 junior.
There is no fee to hire an SI card if required, but lost cards are charged at £30. Sociable group / family fee where all are going round a course together – entry fee is per required number of maps i.e. one entry = one map. |
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| Terrain Summary | Castlewellan Forest Park is dominated by the park’s centrally located lake, the eastern end of which is mainly typical parkland with scattered mature trees, the forest carpark and visitor centre, and a large campground.
Most of the competition terrain will be in mixed hardwood/conifer forest that surrounds the lake and the hill of Slievenaslat. Large areas of the forest have recently been cleared and patches of rhododendron have been removed. Remaining areas of forest are of good general run ability although there are many areas of undergrowth (brambles, nettles etc) especially along path edges and plantation margins. Courses are planned to avoid coming into close contact with the main lake which dominates the ground of the forest. Keep away from deep water! |
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| Previous Maps/Routegadget | Castlewellan map was last used at the NICS on 25 June 2022. Previous routegadget map and courses can be found here: https://www.lvo.routegadget.co.uk/rg2/#472 | ||||||||||||
| Course Notes |
The NI Night Championships will have the following classes. Competitors can choose to run up a class, e.g. an M50 may want to run the Long course but must then compete as M Open:
Note that If a M/W14 wishes to run the NI Night Champs, they can only do so by being shadowed by an adult, and by being therefore non-competitive. LVO has a duty to juniors and so no M/W14 can run unaccompanied i.e. run competitively at the NI Night Champs. The adult must be an experienced orienteer holding current club membership who is capable of shadowing the junior for the entire length of the course. |
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| First Aid and Safety | There will be a first aid and a qualified first aider available at registration. Registration is also a safe place for lost children to wait.
Please do not come to the event if you are unwell. Please bring and carry any medication you might need, especially inhalers and EpiPen’s. If you come across an injured or ill person, please stop, help and get further help. There will likely be qualified first aiders on the course who can stop to provide support. All participants must return to download, whether they complete the course or not. This is to account for all competitors, ensuring everyone’s safe return. Courses will close and controls collected in at 3pm sharp. If you are still out on the course at this time return to finish and download immediately. |
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| Kit requirements | Full body cover is mandatory.
A whistle (emergency alert is 6 loud blasts per minute) is mandatory. A waterproof jacket may also be mandatory if the organisers decide the weather requires one, so bring one along just in case. |
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| Parking | TBC | ||||||||||||
| Toilets | TBC |
Location
Castlewellan – Forest Park
Forest Park View
Castlewellan
BT31 9BU
Volunteers
To volunteer at this event please email volunteer@lvo.org.uk. You can find information on each role here as well as the current list of volunteers.