Newry Canal at Moneypenny's LockThe Newry Canal opened in 1742, and its towpath, now a walking and cycling route, passes the lock and lock-keeper's house at Moneypenny's Lock outside Portadown.
Nature reserve
Oxford Island
Lurgan, County Armagh
Not an island at all but a peninsula reaching into Lough Neagh near Lurgan, a national nature reserve of woodland and meadows with the Lough Neagh Discovery Centre.
- Where
- Lurgan, County Armagh
- Official site
- getactiveabc.com
- Map
- Directions · OpenStreetMap
- Before you go
- Opening times, prices and access change. Check with the place itself.
Nearby
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Newry Canal at Moneypenny's LockThe Newry Canal opened in 1742, and its towpath, now a walking and cycling route, passes the lock and lock-keeper's house at Moneypenny's Lock outside Portadown.
Ardress HouseA 17th century farmhouse remodelled in Georgian times at Annaghmore, with a cobbled farmyard and apple orchards around it.
Peatlands ParkLowland raised bog kept as a country park, where boardwalks cross a bog garden and the walks run on through woodland and old orchards.
Ardboe CrossThe tenth century high cross on the Lough Neagh shore at Ardboe has twenty-two carved panels of Bible scenes, with a church ruin beside it.
Mountjoy CastleA small early 17th century fort of stone and brick on a low hill above Lough Neagh, with a spear shaped tower at each of its four corners.
The ArgoryAn Irish gentry house finished in 1824, on a wooded estate above the River Blackwater, off the Derrycaw Road near Moy.More in Armagh
Navan FortPrehistoric site · ArmaghA circular hilltop enclosure with a mound inside it, west of Armagh city, known in the old tales as Emain Macha, the seat of the kings of Ulster.
St Patrick's Church of Ireland CathedralCathedral · ArmaghThe Church of Ireland cathedral stands on the hill that gave Armagh its name, on the site of the great stone church that tradition gives to Patrick.
St Patrick's Catholic CathedralCathedral · ArmaghThe Catholic cathedral stands on the neighbouring hill, its twin spires above a long flight of steps, built in stages between 1840 and 1904.
Armagh Observatory and PlanetariumMuseum · ArmaghArchbishop Richard Robinson founded the observatory in 1790, and the planetarium on the same grounds opened in 1968 and is the oldest still running in Ireland and Britain.
Slieve GullionMountain · MeighThe highest point in the county, with a forest drive up its side and a passage tomb on the summit, at the centre of the Ring of Gullion.
Gosford Forest ParkForest · MarkethillThe old demesne of the Earls of Gosford outside Markethill, now a forest park of woodland and parkland around the castle, with an arboretum and a walled garden.
Armagh Robinson LibraryMuseum · ArmaghArchbishop Richard Robinson opened his own collection to the public here in 1771, and a copy of Gulliver's Travels with handwritten notes is on display.
Ballykeel DolmenPrehistoric site · MullaghbawnA portal tomb at the western foot of Slieve Gullion, its granite capstone balanced on three stones at the end of a long cairn.