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Route 1 Route 2 Route 3 1. Bishops Road 2. Londonderrry and 12. Beech Hill House 13. Loughs Agency 24. St Aengus’ Church 25. Grianán of Aileach bigfishdesign-ad.com Downhill, Co L’Derry Coleraine Railway Line 32 Ardmore Rd. BT47 3QP 22 Victoria Rd., Derry BT47 2AB Speenogue, Burt Carrowreagh, Burt Best viewed anywhere from Downhill to Magilligan begins. It took 200 men to build this road for the Earl In 1855 the railway between Coleraine and Beechill House was a major base for US marines Home to the cross-border agency with responsibility This beautiful church, dedicated to St. Aengus was This Early Iron Age stone fort at the summit of at this meeting of the waters that the river Foyle Foyle river the that waters the of meeting this at Bishop of Derry, Frederick Hervey in the late 1700s Londonderry was built which runs along the Atlantic during the Second World and now comprises a for the Foyle and Riverwatch which houses an designed by Liam Mc Cormick ( 1967) and has won Greenan, 808 ft above Lough Swilly and Lough Foyle, river Finn coming from Donegal in the west. It is is It west. the in Donegal from coming Finn river along the top of the 220m cliffs that overlook the and then the Foyle and gave rise to a wealth of museum to the period, an archive and a woodland aquarium that represents eights different habitats many awards. The shape of this circular church, is is one of the most impressive ancient monuments Magilligan Plain and Lough Foyle. vernacular cottages. Voted one of the most scenic trail. in the Foyle catchment and reflects the fishing in part a reflection of the form of the ancient stone in the whole of Ireland. This eventually becomes the Mourne and joins the the joins and Mourne the becomes eventually This railway journeys in the world. culture of the area. fort at the top of the hill. begins with the streams that flow into the Strule. Strule. the into flow that streams the with begins roads and railways. In the east the Foyle system system Foyle the east the In railways. and roads 3. Martello Tower 4. Magilligan Spit / 14. Prehen House 15. Dunnalong Fort Site 26. Culmore Point 27. Eskaheen Church armies, and later still providing natural routes for for routes natural providing still later and armies, At Magilligan Point via the A2 and B202 and Prehen, Waterside BT47 2P Dunnalong Rd, Bready, Co L’Derry O Doherty Tower and viewpoint for Lisahally WWII settlers, monks, Plantation farmers and marching marching and farmers Plantation monks, settlers, Magilligan Ferry Benone Strand site – Culmore, BT48 8JW and graveyard 53 Benone Ave, Limavady BT 49 O2Q Eskaheen, Muff, Co Donegal two great valleys – gateways in the past for early early for past the in gateways – valleys great two flow from the Sperrins and the Bluestacks down down Bluestacks the and Sperrins the from flow The streams and rivers that make up the system system the up make that rivers and streams The Inishowen Head and Magilligan Point. Magilligan and Head Inishowen opening at the mouth of the Lough between between Lough the of mouth the at opening deep in Counties Tyrone and Donegal to its Atlantic Atlantic its to Donegal and Tyrone Counties in deep The Martello Tower was built in 1812 to protect Magilliagan is a triangular promontory of extensive Ancestral home of the Knox family dating form the Site of an ancient Gaelic Tower House and Early 19th century towerhouse and vantage point for The site of a monastery founded by St Colmcille and border for 50 miles or more, from its headwaters headwaters its from more, or miles 50 for border Lough Foyle against the invasion by the French sandy dunes and beaches of scientific importance 1640s, intimately linked with the history of Derry Plantation fort at an historic crossing point and Lisahally Jettt, site of the surrender of a large part supposed burial site of Eogahn or Owen, son of Niall Donegal in the Republic of Ireland. It straddles the the straddles It Ireland. of Republic the in Donegal during the Napoleonic Wars. The walls are 13 ft at the entrance to Lough Foyle. Benone Strand at and the famous story of Half- Hanged Mc Naughten. landing on the Foyle. of the German U-Boat fleet in 1945.. of the Nine hostages who was buried here in A.D. thick enclosing a domed circular chamber. seven miles is one of the longest beaches in Europe. On the edge of Prehen ancient woodland. 465 from whom Inishowen derives its name. and Tyrone in Northern Ireland and part of County County of part and Ireland Northern in Tyrone and Site of the original base line for the Ordnance. of Ireland, comprising parts of Counties Derry Derry Counties of parts comprising Ireland, of This Foyle Valley area is a region in the northwest northwest the in region a is area Valley Foyle This Milk 5. Tamlagh Church Ruins 6. Binevenagh Mountain 16. Silverbrook Mill 17. Strabane canal and the 28. Oyster Fishery 29. Cooley Graveyard Magilligan via Duncrun Rd 90 Brook Rd. Dunamangh, BT82 ORX Lough Foyle and cultural heritage. heritage. cultural and and St Cadan’s Church “Tinneys” sculptures and cross in these islands in varieties of natural, built built natural, of varieties in islands these in Milk Duncrun Rd. Bellerena, BT 49 OJD Cooley, Moville The Foyle Landscape is one of the richest richest the of one is Landscape Foyle The Two ancient ecclesial sites within close proximity. Binevenagh nature Reserve an example of glacial A fine example of a multi-use mill on the Dennett A picturesque section of the 18th century canal that The Foyle is one of the last remaining native oyster The site of an a monastery founded by St Patrick The first said to contain the grave, in the form of a and volcanic activity and home to rare sub-arctic river that processed timber, flax and corn until the went from the Foyle into the middle of Strabane fisheries in Europe and the oyster boats can be remarkable for its unusual 10ft monolithic cross mortuary house, of St. Aidan, Bishop of Lindisfarne and alpine plants with marvellous views over Lough 1950s. and the iconic Maurice Harron sculpture, “Let the seen all the way along Lough Foyle from Muff to and skull house – a large tomb-shrine about 9ft who retired to the monastery at Duncrum founded Foyle to Inishowen and Scotland. dance begin” locally known as the Tinnies mark the Greencastle. high. It is reputed to be the burial site of St Finian. in 584 by St. Columba. entrances to this historic town. FOYLE LANDSCAPE 7. Ballykelly 8. Longfield Point and 18. Sion Mills Village 19. Harry Avery’s Castle 30. Moville Regency 31. Greencastle old A2 road from Derry to Coleraine Melmount Rd., BT82 9EX Townhall St, BT78 4AX, Harry Avery’s Castle – Old Embankment Castle Rd, BT 82 8DY Coastal Walk coastguard station HERITAGE TRAIL MAP Airfield Rd., Eglinton, BT47 3PZ Moville Greencastle Ballykelly built on lands granted in1613 by King Lough Foyle, an ornithological paradise, is of A pleasant tree lined village on the river Mourne Overlooked by the picturesque hills of Bessy Bell A classical seaside resort which became a popular A fine Norman castle overlooking the Foyle and built James 1 to the London Company of Fishmongers. international importance for wetland birds such as that is especially rich in the architectural heritage of and Mary Gray Newtownstewart is the setting for destination from the mid C19 when it was served by Richard de Burg, the Red Earl of Ulster in 1305 Largely rebuilt in the early 19th century to the the Whooper Swan and Brent Geese and also for the linen mills – founded in 1835 as a model community the majestic ruins of the Gaelic stronghold of Harry from 1832 by steamers that plied up and down the situated beside a Martello tower built in 1810. designs of Richard Suitor which give it an exotic air Atlantic Salmon. by the Herdman brothers – the furthest west in Avery O’ Neill as well as those of the plantation Foyle. to this day. Europe of the Industrial revolution. castle of the Stewart family. 9. Eglinton / 10. Enagh Lough 20. Ulster American Folk 21. Lifford Courthouse 32. Inishowen Lighthouse 33. Kinnego Bay Templetown Crannog and Graveyard – Main St, Lifford Shroove, Greencastle Glenagivnney, Moville Muff Plantation Village Enagh, Maydown Park On A2 from Derry to Coleraine 2 Mellon Rd., Omagh, BT78 5 QU Delightful Plantation village, originally called An impressive crannog and ancient graveyard in the Voted Northern Ireland’s top Visitor Attraction – a A handsome Michael Priestly building dating from A twin towers complex of lighthouses designed by A beautiful horseshoe bay at the bottom of Muff, founded by the Grocers company in the 17th middle of a pair of lakes on the outskirts of Derry. museum of emigration and folk life. It tells the story 1746 that is now with the adjacent county gaol a George Halpin and opened in 1837 to oversee the Glengivney and final resting place of the Spanish century, with an elegant Court and Market House at of the floods of emigrants who left these shores in museum. huge increase in sea-traffic up and down the Foyle – Armada wreck “La Trinidad Valencera” which sank its centre. the 18th and 19th centuries. overlooking the infamous Tuns bank. in 1588 which was discovered in 1971. 11. Gransha Woods 22. Cavancor House 23. Monreagh Manse and Foyle Civic Trust was inaugurated on 27th April 1989 at the Guildhall, Derry~Londonderry.