Castle CaulfieldSir Toby Caulfield built this house in 1619. The ruin in the village west of Dungannon keeps its dressed stone windows, and the family arms are over the gatehouse.
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Grant Ancestral Homestead
Ballygawley, County Tyrone
The whitewashed farmhouse at Dergenagh is where John Simpson, great-grandfather of US President Ulysses S Grant, was born before he emigrated in 1760.
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- Ballygawley, County Tyrone
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Castle CaulfieldSir Toby Caulfield built this house in 1619. The ruin in the village west of Dungannon keeps its dressed stone windows, and the family arms are over the gatehouse.
Errigal Truagh Old Church and GraveyardA roofless medieval church and its graveyard sit north of Emyvale, beside the modern parish church.
Donaghmore High CrossThe sandstone cross in Donaghmore village probably dates from the tenth century. It is carved with Bible scenes, and its lower half and its head come from two different crosses.
Mullan VillageThe village near Emyvale was built for the workers of a flax mill, and a shoe factory has worked out of the old mill since the 1920s.
Hill of The O'Neill and Ranfurly HouseThe O'Neills ruled Tyrone from this hilltop in Dungannon from 1305 until 1607. The exhibition is down in Ranfurly House, the old bank building in Market Square.
Knockmany Passage TombA 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.What’s on nearby
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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.
Tullaghoge FortFort · CookstownThe 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.
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.
Ardboe CrossMonastic site · CookstownThe 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.