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.
Monastic site
Ardboe Cross
Cookstown, County Tyrone
The 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.
- Where
- Cookstown, County Tyrone
- Official site
- communities-ni.gov.uk
- Map
- Directions · OpenStreetMap
- Before you go
- Opening times, prices and access change. Check with the place itself.
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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.
SpringhillA 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.
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.
Roughan CastleSir Andrew Stewart built it in 1618, a square three storey block with a round tower at each corner, looking out over Roughan Lough.
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.
Oxford IslandNot 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.More in Tyrone
Ulster American Folk ParkMuseum · OmaghAn open air museum outside Omagh about emigration from Ulster to North America. You walk from thatched Ulster farmhouses onto an emigrant sailing ship and off into an American street.
Beaghmore Stone CirclesStone circle · CookstownSeven stone circles with cairns and stone rows, uncovered by turf cutting on open moorland at the edge of the Sperrins.
Gortin Glen Forest ParkForest · GortinThe first forest park in Northern Ireland to be opened in a conifer plantation, on the B48 between Omagh and Gortin, with a scenic drive and waymarked trails.
OM Dark Sky Park and ObservatoryVisitor centre · CookstownThe observatory in Davagh Forest sits inside Northern Ireland's only International Dark Sky Park, up in the Sperrin foothills northwest of Cookstown.
Glenelly ValleyValley · PlumbridgeThe Glenelly River runs west along this valley in the Sperrins down to Plumbridge, with Sawel, the highest of the range, on the ridge to the north.
Wellbrook Beetling MillMuseum · CookstownA 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.
Knockmany Passage TombPrehistoric site · AugherA neolithic passage tomb on a hilltop above the Clogher valley near Augher. Its chamber stones are carved with spirals and circles, and a modern dome covers them now.
Harry Avery's CastleCastle · NewtownstewartThe two towers on the hill outside Newtownstewart belong to a castle an O'Neill chief built around 1320, when Irish chiefs rarely built in stone.