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National Trust acquired the property in 1976. in property the acquired Trust National Magilligan Point ©Tourism NI ©Tourism Point Magilligan rail journeys in the world”. the in journeys rail farmer, Isaac Hezlett, in 1761. His family lived there until the the until there lived family His 1761. in Hezlett, Isaac farmer, Londonderry and Coleraine as “one of the most beautiful beautiful most the of “one as Coleraine and Londonderry the rector of Dunboe and was taken over by a Presbyterian Presbyterian a by over taken was and Dunboe of rector the writer Michael Palin described the train journey between between journey train the described Palin Michael writer ‘crucks’. The cottage was probably built as a parsonage for for parsonage a as built probably was cottage The ‘crucks’. Ireland, measuring 610 and 280 metres respectively. Travel Travel respectively. metres 280 and 610 measuring Ireland, walls hide a fascinating early frame of curved timbers called called timbers curved of frame early fascinating a hide walls and Downhill – they are still the longest railway tunnels in in tunnels railway longest the still are they – Downhill and Ireland’s oldest surviving thatched cottage, its roughcast roughcast its cottage, thatched surviving oldest Ireland’s through two headlands on the route between Castlerock Castlerock between route the on headlands two through cottage dating from around 1691. Not only is it Northern Northern it is only Not 1691. around from dating cottage major engineering achievement, requiring tunnels to be cut cut be to tunnels requiring achievement, engineering major Hezlett House outside Castlerock, is a beautiful thatched thatched beautiful a is Castlerock, outside House Hezlett Company opened a line between these two towns. It was a a was It towns. two these between line a opened Company In 1853 the Derry/Londonderry and Coleraine Railway Railway Coleraine and Derry/Londonderry the 1853 In Hezlett House Hezlett a knife. knife. a 5-8 metres thick with passages inside. inside. passages with thick metres 5-8 its existence largely to the development of the railways. railways. the of development the to largely existence its the lonely mountain road and attack them from behind with with behind from them attack and road mountain lonely the hero, Cuchullain. In its heyday the walls of this citadel were were citadel this of walls the heyday its In Cuchullain. hero, its population has grown considerably. The village owes owes village The considerably. grown has population its would lie in wait for his victims as they made their way over over way their made they as victims his for wait in lie would owned by the National Trust and is open to visitors. visitors. to open is and Trust National the by owned the Red Branch Knights and a friend of the ancient Ulster Ulster ancient the of friend a and Knights Branch Red the of 145’. Over a century later it is still a pretty place, although although place, pretty a still is it later century a Over 145’. of Small, heavy set, his face disfigured by smallpox scars, Cushy Cushy scars, smallpox by disfigured face his set, heavy Small, The site of Downhill Demesne and Mussenden Temple is is Temple Mussenden and Demesne Downhill of site The Cethern, the fortress of Cethern, the son of Finton, one of of one Finton, of son the Cethern, of fortress the Cethern, Castlerock as ‘…a pretty little seaside village with a population population a with village seaside little pretty ‘…a as Castlerock was Cushy Glen who operated here from 1798 to 1804. 1804. to 1798 from here operated who Glen Cushy was over much of the local landscape. It is reputed to be Dun Dun be to reputed is It landscape. local the of much over The Belfast and Ulster Towns Directory for 1910 describes describes 1910 for Directory Towns Ulster and Belfast The Mass. Mass. Roe Estuary ©Aerial Vision NI Vision ©Aerial Estuary Roe mountain top. The most infamous robber on this mountain mountain this on robber infamous most The top. mountain an Iron Age hilltop enclosure with uninterrupted views views uninterrupted with enclosure hilltop Age Iron an underneath the Temple where Catholic priests could say say could priests Catholic where Temple the underneath - image cover Front and their unmarked graves are said to lie along the lonely lonely the along lie to said are graves unmarked their and Castlerock Also nearby is the ‘Giant’s Sconce’ at Sconce Hill. This was was This Hill. Sconce at Sconce’ ‘Giant’s the is nearby Also in religious tolerance and equality he had a room built built room a had he equality and tolerance religious in travellers simply disappeared, victims of the highwaymen, highwaymen, the of victims disappeared, simply travellers Visit our website - www.daera-ni.gov.uk - website our Visit inside, Hervey used it as a cliff-top library. A strong believer believer strong A library. cliff-top a as it used Hervey inside, sherds, charcoal and some bones. bones. some and charcoal sherds, hundred years ago it was the haunt of highwaymen. Many Many highwaymen. of haunt the was it ago years hundred T: T: 0300 200 7856 200 0300 fleet reported to surrender in 1945. in surrender to reported fleet but the Pope refused to sell. Once ornately decorated decorated ornately Once sell. to refused Pope the but 12 years and an infant; the third chamber had some pottery pottery some had chamber third the infant; an and years 12 went via the ominously named Murder Hole Road and three three and Road Hole Murder named ominously the via went Lower Ormeau Road, Belfast, BT7 2JA BT7 Belfast, Road, Ormeau Lower the River Foyle, as the point to which the German U-boat U-boat German the which to point the as Foyle, River the Hervey wanted to transport the original back from Rome, Rome, from back original the transport to wanted Hervey more pottery and the remains of six adults, a child of about about of child a adults, six of remains the and pottery more In the past the inland route from Coleraine to Limavady Limavady to Coleraine from route inland the past the In Gasworks Business Park, Business Gasworks emphasised by the selection of Lisahally, at the mouth of of mouth the at Lisahally, of selection the by emphasised inspired by the Temple of Vesta in Rome. It is said that that said is It Rome. in Vesta of Temple the by inspired sherds of Beaker pottery and a flint scraper; the second had had second the scraper; flint a and pottery Beaker of sherds Klondyke Building, Cromac Ave, Cromac Building, Klondyke the major focus for waging the Battle of the Atlantic, a fact fact a Atlantic, the of Battle the waging for focus major the Murder and mayhem and Murder classical rotunda perched perilously close to the cliff edge; edge; cliff the to close perilously perched rotunda classical was found to contain three chambers. The first contained contained first The chambers. three contain to found was Northern Ireland Environment Agency Agency Environment Ireland Northern ships waiting to cross the Atlantic. Lough Foyle became became Foyle Lough Atlantic. the cross to waiting ships walks past them take you to Mussenden Temple, a perfect perfect a Temple, Mussenden to you take them past walks from around 2,500 to 2,000 BC. First excavated in 1936, it it 1936, in excavated First BC. 2,000 to 2,500 around from natural harbour formed a vital base for convoys and escort escort and convoys for base vital a formed harbour natural Second World War and today only its ruins remain. Beautiful Beautiful remain. ruins its only today and War World Second wedge tomb known as the Well Glass Spring Cairn dating dating Cairn Spring Glass Well the as known tomb wedge certain procedures are followed. followed. are procedures certain Twitter and Facebook on us find was ideal for air force bases and the Lough’s well-sheltered well-sheltered Lough’s the and bases force air for ideal was being rebuilt in the 1870s. It fell into disrepair after the the after disrepair into fell It 1870s. the in rebuilt being Near Largantea, along the Windyhill Road, is a Bronze Age Age Bronze a is Road, Windyhill the along Largantea, Near Druids which is believed to be capable of curing illnesses, if if illnesses, curing of capable be to believed is which Druids or www.ccght.org - website our Visit the Second World War, the level land around Lough Foyle Foyle Lough around land level the War, World Second the Much of the building was destroyed by fire in 1851 before before 1851 in fire by destroyed was building the of Much stone cairn. The cairn was near the site of a holy well of the the of well holy a of site the near was cairn The cairn. stone Bronze Age Bronze [email protected] E: E: Magilligan has always held strategic significance. During During significance. strategic held always has Magilligan brought some of his remains back and deposited them in a a in them deposited and back remains his of some brought only be seen in major galleries today. galleries major in seen be only T: T: (028) 2075 2100 2075 (028) as a great Saint of Lindisfarne and when he died, St. Colman Colman St. died, he when and Lindisfarne of Saint great a as Lough Foyle. Lough Rafael, Titian, Durer and Caravaggio, artists whose work can can work whose artists Caravaggio, and Durer Titian, Rafael, BT53 8SL BT53 Bronze Age cairns on Binevenagh and at Ballyhanna. Ballyhanna. at and Binevenagh on cairns Age Bronze interest as a place of Druidic worship.

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