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Getting Around
Inishtrahull
The N56, linking Letterkenny and
Donegal, provides access to much of
Malin Head Ballyhillin the Northwest’s best scenery, with
minor roads branching off it around
Malin the coast’s rocky peninsulas. A few
Culdaff
TORY ISLAND Ballyliffin Cardonagh buses serve this route, but travelling
Tory Soun d HORN ROSGUILL PENINSULA Portsalon Slieve Snaght Greencastle around without a car is easier further
Gap of Mamore
south, with buses running daily from
615m
HEAD
Donegal along the N15 to Sligo.
BLOODY Dunfanaghy INISH O WEN Moville The rail network barely reaches
FORELAND Brinlack FANAD Lough Swilly PENIN SULA the Northwest, though there are
Gortahork PENINSULA Buncrana daily trains between Sligo and
Creeslough
Gola Island Carrick-on-Shannon.
Bunbeg Rathmullan
Owey Island Errigal Rathmelton
Rosses 752m Bridgend
Bay THE Kilmacrenan GRIANÁN AILIGH
Burtonport ROSSES
MOUNTAINS
Arranmore DE RRYVEAG H Londonderry
Island Dungloe Cark LETTERKENNY Belfast
366m Swilly
Crohy Head Foyle
Gweebarra Fintown
Bay
Narin Maas DONE GAL Lifford Strabane
Glenties Stranorlar Castlefinn Thatched cottage near Malin Head on Inishowen Peninsula
Loughros Pt Lavagh More Ballybofey Finn
M o u n t a i n s
ARDARA 672m Omagh
Glengesh Pass B l u e S t a c k Sights at a Glance
GLENCOLMCILLE 1 Tory Island u Rossnowlagh
Malin More DONEGAL Derg 2 Bloody Foreland i Ballyshannon
Malin Beg Carrick Inver
3 Derryveagh Mountains o Lissadell House
SLIEVE LEAGUE Laghy 4 Horn Head a Parke’s Castle
KILLYBEGS Donegal LOUGH 5 Rosguill Peninsula s Sligo
Bay
ROSSNOWLAGH DERG 6 Fanad Peninsula d Lough Arrow
Pettigoe
Assaroe Abbey 8 Grianán Ailigh f Carrick-on-Shannon
BALLYSHANNON Belleek Lower 9 Letterkenny g The Organic Centre
Bundoran Lough Erne 0 The Rosses
Mullaghmore Erne Tours
Lough
Inishmurray Melvin Garrison Enniskillen q Ardara 7 Inishowen Peninsula
Grange YEATS w Glencolmcille p Yeats Country
e Slieve League
COUNTRY THE ORGANIC
LISSADELL HOUSE CENTRE r Killybegs
Rosses Point Drumcliff Manorhamilton t Donegal
Sligo Bay y Lough Derg
Dromore
Killala West SLIGO PARKE'S CASTLE Enniskillen
Bay Lough
Gill Dromahair Dowra
Ballysadare
Inniscrone
Slieve Gamph or SLIGO Drumkeeran Lough
Collooney
Allen
Ballina The Ox Mountains Ballymote Drumshanbo Iron Mountains
LOUGH ARROW
Tubbercurry
Keadew
Ballinafad Lough Shannon Leitrim Ballinamore
Gorteen
Key LE ITRIM Carrigallen
Charlestown Lough Boyle
Gara
CARRICK-ON-
Ballaghaderreen SHANNON Mohill
Roscommon Dromod
Roosky
Longford
View from Carrowkeel Bronze Age cemetery above Lough Arrow
For hotels and restaurants in this region see pp301–2 and pp320–21
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