Glenevin WaterfallThirty feet of fall at the head of the Glenevin valley, on a signposted riverside path with footbridges.
Fort
Fort Dunree
Buncrana, County Donegal
The coastal artillery fort on the headland over Lough Swilly is a military museum now, with the gun emplacements still in place.
Fort Dunree Military Museum overlooks Lough Swilly on the Inishowen Peninsula in County Donegal.
- Where
- Buncrana, County Donegal
- Address
- Dunree View, Leophin, Linsfort
- Official site
- fortdunree.com
- Map
- Directions · OpenStreetMap
- Before you go
- Opening times, prices and access change. Check with the place itself.
Nearby
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Glenevin WaterfallThirty feet of fall at the head of the Glenevin valley, on a signposted riverside path with footbridges.
Fanad Head LighthouseThe lighthouse at the mouth of Lough Swilly is still working, and the old keepers' houses take visitors.
Grianan of AileachThe drystone ringfort sits 250 metres up in Inishowen and looks down on both Lough Swilly and Lough Foyle.
Doe CastleThe tower house stands on a low spit in Sheephaven Bay, water on three sides of it and a rock cut ditch on the fourth.
Muckish MountainThe flat top above Creeslough is the shape you will remember, and an 8.3 kilometre bog and track loop runs around the foot of it.
Ards Forest ParkWoodland on a peninsula in Sheephaven Bay, with marked trails, dunes and several small beaches inside it.What’s on nearby
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