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Beaghmore (Bheitheach Mhór), meaning ‘big place of birch trees’. The stones speak of ancient rituals and to a people who understood astronomy. When you visit this ancient site look up in wonder at the sky and reflect, that the people that built these monuments observed the same sky, sun, moon and stars.

There are 7 stone circles, 12 cairns and 10 rows of stones here at Beaghamore. In total 1269 stones were discovered under the peat during the 1930s. The site dates back to 2900 - 2600 BC.

Ogham Stones are rare in Northern Ireland and this is the only one in County Tyrone. It is marked with an ancient alphabet, thought to be the earliest form of the Irish language. It reads; 'Do Te Tto Maqi Maglant'. This refers to two males. 'Maqi' means 'son of'.

The Creggan Wood Walk talks you on a meandering course through a unique bogland featuring a fantastic array of plantlife including sphagnum moss, cranberry, crowberry, and bilberry amongst many others. A gravel path and raised boardwalk will lead you around the area so you can get in and amongst this fantastic landscape without getting your feet wet.

Drum Manor Forest Park is made up of beautiful mature deciduous woodland feauturing beech and oak. Winding forest tracks will take you on a lovely route through the area passing ponds, gardens, and a derelict manor house.

National Trust owned water powered mill, originally used in the manufacture of Linen. Well worth stopping off for a look around.

Beaghmore is a complex of early Bronze Age megalithic features, stone circles and cairns, 8.5 miles north west of Cookstown, on the south-east edge of the Sperrin Mountains. There are seven low stone circles of different sizes, six of which are paired, twelve cairns and ten stone rows. The circles are between 10 and 20m in diameter, and are associated with earlier burial cairns and alignments of stone rows lead towards them. The stones are small with few more than 0.5m in height and the circles are distorted, suggesting they are related to kerbs surrounding some megalithic tombs.

This ogham stone, which stands only 1,22 m in height, 0,46 m, in width and 0,53 m, in depth. It is one of the few ogham stones still to be found in Ulster and the only one in county Tyrone. The script reads 'DOTETTO MAQI MAGLANI' which translates as 'Dotetto son of Maglani'.