Accomodation
Luxurious bedrooms
We boast 19 luxurious bedrooms in our main building, all with en-suite facilities. We have a mixture of double, twin & triple rooms available.
The Ryandale Bank
The old Ulster Bank building in the Moy square has been converted into 5 star accommodation. It has 1 apartment and 4 bedrooms beautifully finished. It is located just 3 doors up from our main building. Enquiries can be made with reception.
Tourist Attractions around Tyrone
Visitor Centre & Parks
Dungannon Park
Be dazzled by the colourful floral displays throughout the seasons from the spring daffodils and rhododendrons to the russets of autumn. Watch the swans on the trout lake and explore the miles of interesting pathways that surround the parkland. Take advantage of the many facilities that the park has to offer from the children’s play and picnic areas to the orienteering trail, tennis courts, barbeque site, treasure trail, caravan park and gamewater fly fishery.
Directions: Take junction 15 off M1, signposted off A29, on the outskirts of Dungannon
Annaginny Park
Annaginny Park Farm is home to a wide range of geese, wallaby, rhea, emu, red deer, a highland cow and more. The Park Farm offers a wonderful day out for all the family with country walks, picnic area and BBQ facilities also available. The site is home to a nature reserve, rainbow trout fishery and a caravan and camping park. Site open all year round 9.00am to dark with the childrens play park, walks, picnic and BBQ facilities.
Annaginny Park Farm, 40B Annaginny Road, Newmills, Dungannon, Co Tyrone, BT71 4DZ
The Argory
The Argory was built in 1824 for Walter McGeough. The Argory has a fine setting on a slight rise overlooking the River Blackwater on the Armagh/Tyrone border near Moy. The house is a time capsule with everything as it was at the turn of the century. Electricity was never installed in the main rooms; instead the house was lit by gas from the acetylene gas plant which was installed in 1906.
Directions: 4 miles from Charlemont. 3 miles from junction 13 on M1 motorway
Grant Ancestral Homestead
Explore the cottage of the Simpson family with close ties to Ulysses Simpson Grant, the Commander of the victorious Union troops in the American Civil War. U.S. Grant served two terms as U.S. President and visited the homeland. The cottage and grounds are open all year round. For tours and audiovisual show booking is essential. Facilities are accessible to a wheelchair user with assistance. Picnic and BBQ area, children’s play area, toilets, bike rental and wildlife garden.
Directions: At Dergenagh, Ballygawley, Off B34 (old A4) 13 miles west of Dungannon
Carleton’s Cottage
Visit the childhood home of the much-loved Victorian novelist William Carleton, well versed in Irish folklore and described by Yeats as ‘the greatest novelist of Ireland’. An annual literary festival held in August in the Clogher Valley celebrates Carleton’s work. Why not take a driving/walking tour along the scenic Carleton Trail, sign posted throughout the Clogher Valley, with many interesting heritage sites along the way.
Directions: 3 miles from Clogher, signposted.
Blessingbourne Carriage & Costume Museum
Take an imaginary ride into the past at this enchanting collection of coaches, carriages, cabs and buggies as well as horse-drawn farm machinery. Lovely collection of fashions from yesteryear. Among the numerous coaches on display is an 1825 London – Oxford stagecoach.
Opening Times: EASTER – SEPTEMBER. Phone for times. Min. group 10 people Booking Essential.
Island Turf Crafts
Step back in time in the bog museum with a treasure house of exhibits which reveal the history of Ireland before and after the Ice Age. Also now available creative bog art for groups and individuals, create your own work of art using 5,000 year old turf which is then framed so you can take home your own piece of Ireland.
Barrontop Fun Farm
An open farm with has a large variety of animals, Indoor bouncy castle and soft play area, adventure playground, cart rides, tearoom and gift shop. It also includes a nature walk with panoramic views.
Opening Times:
Open all year
The Garden Corner Ltd
The Garden Corner facilitates and caters for large coach trips, women’s institute groups and family outings. It provides educational garden workshops on request including flower arranging and seasonal planting demonstrations, seasonal talks on flowers, shrubs and trees as well as cookery demonstrations using seasonal fruits and vegetables. It also has an exhibition of local arts and crafts and a pet and nature corner onsite. Full catering and dining facilities are available.
Directions: ½ way between Cookstown and Dungannon on the main A29 Road
Ulster American Folk Park
The Ulster American Folk Park is an outdoor museum of emigration which tells the remarkable story of the vast human tide of emigration, from Ireland, to the New World of North America. The Old World and New World layout of the Park illustrates the various aspects of emigrant life on both sides of the Atlantic. Traditional thatched buildings,
American log houses and a full-scale replica emigrant ship and the dockside gallery help to bring a bygone era back to life. Costumed demonstrators go about their everyday tasks including spinning, open hearth cookery, printing and blacksmithing.
Heritage Sites
Beaghmore Stone Circles
These famous stone circles are situated to the west of Lough Fea beside Davagh Forest. There are seven of these stone circles and alignments along with several cairns which date from the early Bronze Age. It has been suggested that the circles and alignments have some connection with astronomy but a more popular theory is that they may well have served some function in fertility rites.
Ardboe Old Cross
A 10th century cross situated on a rocky height on the shores of Lough Neagh. It is a national monument, which is believed to be the first high cross of Ulster. The cross stands 18.5 feet high and 3.5 feet wide. Its 22 panels depict various biblical scenes. Local legend has it that the cross was built with the help of a ‘magic cow’ which stepped out of the Lough and provided workmen with lashings of cream, milk and butter for as long as they needed it.
Tullyhogue Fort
The area of Tullyhogue was of regal importance in Ulster before the 16th Century because it was here that the O’Neills were inaugurated as Chieftains of Ulster. Hugh O’Neills inauguration on 1595 was the last to take place at this historical site.
Errigal Kerrogue Cross
Here are the ruins of St Kierans Church, Ballygawley with its very early cross. The church is said to date from 1489 and was a Franciscan foundation.
Directions: Signposted off A4 Ballygawley to Augher Road.
St Patricks Chair & Well
Set in Altadavin Forest, this magnifi cent chair and well is carved from stone. Reputedly built for St Patrick on his journey through the Clogher Valley, the site attracts visitors throughout the year. The attraction is reputed to have mystical powers.
Directions: Outside Augher on the Aughnacloy Road.
Knockmany Chambered Cairn
Just north of Augher, off the B83, is the Knockmany Forest, a government run forestry plantation on Knockmany Hill. At the top, look for the burial place of Queen Aine, Queen of Oriel, a 6th century kingdom whose centre was Clogher. The cairn is a passage grave dating from Neolithic times. This type of monument consists of a stone-built passage leading to a terminal chamber, often cruciform in shape, and covered by a mound of cairn stones
Castle Hill & Ranfurly House
Situated at the top of Dungannon Town’s Market Square, Ranfurly House, named after Dungannon’s influential Ranfurly family, was originally built in 1854 for the Belfast Banking Company. The House commands the site of the former entrance way into Castle Hill where the remaining twin towers of the Knox Hannygton House stand and where it is reputed, rests the remains of Hugh O’Neill’s Castle that was the focus of Channel 4’s Time Team in 2008, discovering evidence of early habitation on the hill, confirming the strategic importance of the site since the middle ages.
Benburb Priory
Benburb Priory belongs to the Servite Order and is ideally located in the River Blackwater region bordering the counties of Tyrone and Armagh. It offers religious services, conference room hire, meeting rooms, accommodation and a coffee shop with catering facilities.