Lissan HouseThe Staples family lived at Lissan for nearly four hundred years. The house north of Cookstown is run by a trust now, with a walled garden and woodland walks in the demesne.
House and gardens
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Moneymore, County Derry
A plantation era house built in the late 1600s outside Moneymore, home to ten generations of the Conyngham family. The National Trust keeps a costume collection in it.
- Where
- Moneymore, County Derry
- Official site
- nationaltrust.org.uk
- Map
- Directions · OpenStreetMap
- Before you go
- Opening times, prices and access change. Check with the place itself.
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Lissan HouseThe Staples family lived at Lissan for nearly four hundred years. The house north of Cookstown is run by a trust now, with a walled garden and woodland walks in the demesne.
Tullaghoge FortThe O'Neills were inaugurated at this hilltop enclosure south of Cookstown. A path climbs to it from a small car park at the foot of the hill.
Drum Manor Forest ParkThe Forest Service took over the old Drum Manor estate near Cookstown in 1964, and its waymarked trails go round the forest and a wildfowl lake.
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.
Wellbrook Beetling MillA water powered linen mill in a wooded glen on the Ballinderry River west of Cookstown, where the wheel drives wooden hammers that pound the cloth to a sheen.
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.More in Derry
Derry City WallsFort · DerryThe Honourable The Irish Society built the walls between 1613 and 1618 and they are still complete. You can walk the whole circuit on top, past seven gates and 24 restored cannon.
Mussenden Temple and Downhill DemesneEstate · CastlerockThe Earl Bishop built the domed temple on the cliff edge around 1783 as a library, modelled on the Temple of Vesta. The shell of his house at Downhill stands behind it.
GuildhallVisitor centre · DerryThe council chamber has been in the Guildhall since 1890. Local guides take you round, past the stained glass windows and into the main hall with its organ.
Peace BridgeBridge · DerryA curving foot and cycle bridge over the Foyle, opened in 2011, that joins the old army barracks at Ebrington to the city centre across the river.
BinevenaghMountain · LimavadyThe cliffs of Binevenagh, formed from lava 60 million years ago, run above Benone Strand with Lough Foyle and Donegal in view. There is a small lake on the top.
Portstewart StrandBeach · PortstewartThe National Trust looks after this long strand west of Portstewart, backed by dunes that are 6,000 years old. The Causeway Coast Way to Ballycastle starts here.
St Columb's CathedralCathedral · DerryBuilt inside the walls between 1628 and 1633, it was the first Protestant cathedral put up in Britain and Ireland after the Reformation. It keeps relics of the 1688 to 1689 siege.
Benone StrandBeach · LimavadyFirm sand with no rocks or seaweed on it, running along under the Binevenagh cliffs with Donegal across the water. It has won the Blue Flag many times.