ABOUT BINEVENAGH ABOUT BINEVENAGH outdoor recereation pitches into a providing advice, help and support A VOICE ON THE HILL gem of a public park. The recreation in every way, recognising that the To mark the tenth anniversary of the Causeway about idea being to retain the football success of VB serves to add to the Coast & Glens Heritage Trust (CCGHT) local MLAs Brain Teaser CO-OPERATION pitches themselves but also to make attractiveness of this wonderful gift Mervyn Storey and Cathal O h’Oisín hosted an event IS THE KEY TO SUCCESS IN THE BINEVENAGH AREA the area as a whole much more from nature that is Binevenenagh in Stormont on 7th February 2012. G C M S T A I D A N S C H U R C H AONB Binevenagh multi-functional. and its environs. Much of what One of the main functions of emphasis was placed on ‘saying it The newsletter for the Binevenagh AONB VB has achieved also owes a This event provided an opportunity to meet and H B F N Y N Z Y Q O O T U U K D E HEZLETT HOUSE the new Castlerock Visitor and with flowers’ as baskets and tubs All this has been achieved because considerable debt to the tremendous discuss, with the Directors and the staff, the Trust B I N E V E N A G H B E N O N E S Information Centre is to encourage were set up all round the core of numerous individuals working for BELLARENA encouragement as well as material achievements over the last ten years, but also the E E M Q S F R E D I L G F Y O B U and enable access to Castlerock the village, centring on the railway both official and volunteer bodies LIMAVADY and labour support which Toby opportunities and challenges for the Causeway G O Z C A S T L E R O C K Z N B O itself, a village steeped in history station, to such good effect that and numerous organisations have Edwards and his National Trust team Coast and Glens area over the next few years, X T M H R J B C J D N A S J S N H BENONE and dominated by both the ruin of the station subsequently gained lent the Project their enthusiastic including the challenge of the economic downturn, have given, mostly in their own time D O W N H I L L S T R A N D A L T LIONS GATE a great house, Downhill Castle, and an award in the Ulster in Bloom support. Rachel Bain, formerly with the prospect of the first Northern Irish National Park, to this project. N X M N A G I L L I G A M S J O T by the majestic cliff and vantage competition. A consignment of top the CCGHT, was one of the first to the need for sustainable development principles, BINEVENAGH point of Binevenagh. Castlerock quality benches and picnic tables, vet and encourage our plans and Several Coleraine Borough Council M U S S E N D E N T E M P L E U E the rise of the Causeway Coast and Glens as a LOUGH FOYLE CHAIRMAN’S itself is currently in the throes of destined mainly for the seaside to provide lots of support as the Staff also deserve accolades in this renowned tourism destination and the continuous H L I O N S G A T E U E J G R G L CASTLEROCK VIEW an ambitious programme - Village areas in the village has arrived and Centre progressed. Now in a new respect, particularly Jenny Sproule need to conserve, enhance and promote our unique H F H X A N P O T L F W L O W H Z Renewal. The funding provided is shortly to be erected. A landscape role with local councils, the same of Collage in Garvagh. landscape and heritage. L J T Z Y Y N X H Y C L H Z O F E MAGILLIGAN Binevenagh Mountain and by the Regional Development gardener has been hired to tidy- and enthusiast for bio-diversity still finds the area surrounding its The moral at the end of this tale Y D A V A M I L L Q F F M Y L O H DOWNHILL STRAND Programme, under Measure 3.5 plant-up several so far neglected time to lead forays to count our local CCGHT worked with media production students base are redolent with teaches us that close co-operation D M O S G N K B R J R M Z A I Y Z Village Renewal, enabled a Project to areas in the village and a bold basalt moths and bats, to lead groups, and lecturers from the Northern Regional College in MUSSENDEN TEMPLE history from many ages and between a vibrant community and get off the ground just twelve months stone will soon be figuring as the also of schoolchildren, to hack Ballymoney to produce and deliver a short corporate M Z N C T Z K I N N K U H G C L M one of our long-term tasks bodies both private and public of GLIDER ago,with the simple name of Village centrepiece of a striking village entry away at our all-encroaching sea film to delegates in the Long Gallery. E R B N V D H Z G R F Z E R U E J is certainly to revive and all kinds is the key to success if ST AIDANS CHURCH Beautiful (VB). This Visitor and feature. An art feature, chronicling buckthorn and to lead a project to P E S A N E R A L L E B K C U Y T bring to life for resident and we wish to lift ourselves out of the Information Centre was designed to the most significant aspects of the restore bio-diversity on the Downhill tourist alike, the past ages current economic mire ‘by our serve as the hub for village activity area’s past, will soon grace the wall clifftop. Rachel’s former colleagues when this northerly corner own bootstraps’. in general and so it fulfils this role of the Peter Thompson Hall, as work at CCGHT and equally able new staff of Ireland was throbbing for the VB Project also. In 2011 the continues to transform the present are continuing to co-operate with VB, LEAP DAY BEACH with human activity. CLEAN at MAGILLIGAN The natural world is at its finest on Binevenagh Staff from CCGHT, and we must be careful Limavady Borough when opening it up and Council and NIEA providing access to the worked side by side eco-conscious tourist, but on 29th February to equally we must create this undertake an audit access, which is sorely and thorough clean of the beach at Magilligan. needed now. When you are out and about in Binevenagh AONB we would encourage you to follow the 7 principles I am only all too aware that of the Leave No Trace Ireland programme. Leave money is tight – the future No Trace is about our personal responsibility for of this very newsletter GOLD protecting the areas we use for recreation whether itself is under threat, as on land, underground or afloat. I write – but we must in Binevenagh www.leavenotraceireland.org create a vision of progress and sustainability for the present and for the future, or we will be seen to be CCGHT is the lead partner in Northern Ireland delivering Photographic Credits: CLIPPER: World Wide Images failing in our task. ÉCONOMUSÉE, or working museum, a Quebec inspired craft BINEVENAGH VISITOR CENTRE? Binevenagh AONB Fact File: 20120224 onEdition 2012© tourism initiative that is being developed in Northern Europe. The views expressed in newsletter articles are those of the Designated: 2006 Michael Jones In Viking times the local villagers will have stood on Binevenagh and to watch the emigrant ships Derry, Limavady, Castlerock and Magilligan with authors and do not necessarily represent the views of the (Formerly North Derry AONB designated in 1966) Chairman Causeway Coast & Glens Heritage Trust. It is the purpose of Area: 14100 ha Binevenagh AONB The project is funded under the Northern Periphery Behind every bottle of Broighter Gold Rapeseed Oil is a on what we now call the Gortmore area and been carrying off their kith and kin as they headed out of interpretative signage and thus enable the visitor to this periodical to share a variety of viewpoints. 10 transfixed by the sight of the longships riding out a the Foyle towards the promised refuge of the New understand just what a wonderful area he or she years Management Forum Programme 2007-2013 and includes Greenland, Iceland, wealth of history. The traditions are rooted in the beautiful Population: 5706 Norway, Sweden, The Faroe Islands, Republic of Ireland countryside around Binevenagh Area of Outstanding Natural storm on Lough Foyle. A thousand years on, and World. Yes, Gortmore could tell many a tale if asked. was privileged to enjoy on that day. (Estimate based on 2001 census) local farming folk would have paused to watch I’d like to see a cabin built up there, a rough-sawn 2002-2012 and Northern Ireland. Each ECONOMUSEE offers a unique Beauty, and the health benefits, which the oil gives back to Mike Jones For more information on the Binevenagh www.ccght.org Bishop Hervey flying past in his fine coach and and rustic museum, which would stand up boldly on experience, inviting visitors to watch artisans at work, the local people, are greater than anyone of the Kane family AONB visit the Causeway Coast and www.binevenaghaonb.ccght.org learn about the history of their craft and the heritage of the could ever imagine.