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Slieve Gallion is part of the Sperrin Mountain range, sitting along the road between Churchtown and Moneymore. This photograph was taken in the final month of autumn, when the landscape still holds its last traces of colour.
Coagh Riverside Park & Playground, October 2025
Autumn is the time of the year when colourful leaves and weather show up, especially in the mornings and evenings. Coagh Riverside Park is a minimal riverside woodland; it takes just 5 minutes or so to walk around, but it is a lovely wood beside the large Ballinderry River, which heads out into Lough Neagh…
Snowing in Springhill, January 2025
At the Springhill House, outside Moneymore.
Ulster Transport Museum, June 2019
As a frequent visitor to the excellent Ulster Folk Museum, which is situated directly across the bridge on the Belfast-Bangor road, I was unsure of what to anticipate from my visit to the Ulster Transport Museum. One thing that struck me about it is electric trams. They started out in the 1890s as horse-drawn carriages,…
Cabin Wood, Cookstown, July 2025
Only a few years ago, when there was a Facebook post warning about the giant hogweeds strewn along the riverside, did I learn about a little-known gem at Cookstown’s southern tip. The only other forest/wood is Drum Manor Park, but it is around a 3.5-mile drive from town and is, by far, much larger. Cabin…
