Cycling/Walking Route 1

Distance 37 Miles / 60km

Please Be Careful when cycling the short distance on the N2

  • Tydavnet
    • Ancient Burial Ground
    • St. Dympna's Church
    • Murals depiciting life os St. Dympna
  • Corracrin Church - Tomb of Canon Moynagh
  • Donagh Old Church/Graveyard and McKenna High Cross
  • Drumbanagher Fort
  • Glaslough
    • Castle leslie
  • Tully Fort St.Mellons/Maudhain's Holy Well
  • Errigal Truagh Old School (Now Heritage Centre)
  • St. Patrick's Church Truagh
  • Clara Hall
  • Derrygorry Wood (Millennium Forest)
  • Altadaven Glen
  • St. Patricks Chair and Well
  • Lough More
  • Carrickroe Chapel

Blanket Bog Speices

Deer Sedge, Ling, Cross-leaved heath, single-flowered Cotton grass, Bog asphodel and the mosses sphagnum capillifolium and hypnum. In places cranberry is an abundant component of the vegetation.

Plants & Shrub Species

Lords and Ladies also commonly called Cuckoo Pint.  Common in woods and thickets this plants flowers in May and June.  The dark green arrow shaped leaves appear very early in the year.  Flies attracted to the liquid spathe or cuckoospit produce near the purple flowers pollinate it.  When the spathe withers, beautiful orange red berries are revealed.

  Wilson’s Filmy Fern is a rare fern which can be found on the stone around St. Patrick’s Chair and Well in Altadaven Glen.  Its flattened leaves are often mistaken for a moss.

  Wood Sorrel (Oxalis acetosella) was an old druidic emblem of Ireland and was considered a lucky symbol associated with the sun.  St. Patrick was said to have used it to explain the Holy Trinity to the Irish people in AD432.

   Bog Bilberry has a bluish black berry and white flowers flushed with pink and it found in damper soils such as the bog lands of Sliabh Beagh.  Flowering time is April to June and Bilberry Festivals are traditionally held in August.