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Cookstown offers anyone who visits beautiful local scenery. Standing at the centre of the town, you can witness the beautiful Sperrin mountains overlooking the town while you shop at Cookstown's Saturday Market in the thriving main street.
Ardboe Old Cross and St. Colman’s Abbey is a national monument dating from the 10th Century. It is believed to be the first high cross of Ulster, standing at 18.5 feet high and 3.5 feet wide, with 22 panels depicting various Biblical scenes. There are also remains of a church and an abbey.
The Broughderg area is remote and peaceful and is renowned for its unique archaeological remains. The scenery includes the Coneyglen Valley and Davagh Forest with its walks and extensive blanket bog. Particularly well known sites are Dun Ruadh, the Ogham Stone and the Beaghmore Stone Circles. Archeaologists believe that Beaghmore Stone Circles date back to around 1500BC. There are 7 stone circles and alignments along with several cairns on this spectacular preserved site.
Derryloran Old Church and Graveyard was built in 1622 replacing an old church on the same site. In around 1820, a new church was built on a site closer to town. It was designed by John Nash (although this structure was substantially demolished and rebuilt to designs by Welland) and built from hewn stone in simple "First Fruits" Gothic style with a pinnacle tower, plain spire and vaulted vestibule. The interior is dignified but rather dour with little decoration. Some of the graves in Derryloran graveyard date back to the early 17th Century. Other churches in the town were mainly constructed in the latter part of the nineteenth century. The largest, the Roman Catholic Church of the Holy Trinity was designed by the prolific Irish architect JJ McCarthy and was constructed between 1858 and 1860. Its soaring West Tower and spire are the tallest buildings in town and are a foamous local landmark. The interior of the church (much altered in 1981) is dominated by the huge eastern window manufactured by Hardman's of Birmingham. The Church has been extensively renovated in 2010/11 and is due to be reopened for Christmas 2011
On an imposing hilltop encircled by trees some 2 miles south/south east of Cookstown and on the outskirts of Tullyhogue village is the site of the mystical Tullaghoge Fort, prominently standing testimony to Tyrone's illustrious past. It was here on this hilltop enclosure that the ruling members of each generation of the Cenel nEogain (later to be known as ‘The O’Neills’) were inaugurated from the 11th Century to the end of the 16th Century. The Uí Néill (O’Neills) founded their headquarters at Tullaghoge early in the 11th century and it continued as the ceremonial seat of the kings of Tír Eoghain even after the O’Neills transferred their court to Dungannon at the end of the 13th century.
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