Beaghmore Stone CirclesSeven stone circles with cairns and stone rows, uncovered by turf cutting on open moorland at the edge of the Sperrins.
Visitor centre
OM Dark Sky Park and Observatory
Cookstown, County Tyrone
The observatory in Davagh Forest sits inside Northern Ireland's only International Dark Sky Park, up in the Sperrin foothills northwest of Cookstown.
- Where
- Cookstown, County Tyrone
- Official site
- omdarksky.com
- Map
- Directions · OpenStreetMap
- Before you go
- Opening times, prices and access change. Check with the place itself.
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Beaghmore Stone CirclesSeven stone circles with cairns and stone rows, uncovered by turf cutting on open moorland at the edge of the Sperrins.
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.
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.
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.
Glenelly ValleyThe 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.
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.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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Castle CaulfieldCastle · DungannonSir 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.
Hill of The O'Neill and Ranfurly HouseHeritage centre · DungannonThe 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.