Tyrone Heritage Trails

From a Jacobean spur-shaped castle to a vanished narrow-gauge railway platform, this short loop traces the Plantation town Sir Thomas Ridgway built and chartered in 1613 — and everything Augher grew into afterwards.

Walk the wide Georgian main street landlord Acheson Moore laid out around his parish church, taking in a market house, three more places of worship, a Victorian almshouse and the former headquarters of the narrow-gauge Clogher Valley Railway.

A short loop around a mid-Tyrone crossroads village, from the scheduled remains of a Plantation-era castle to the listed churches and houses of Main Street and Church Street.

Walk the compact heart of Benburb, from the ruined 1611 bawn of Wingfield's Castle and the field where Owen Roe O'Neill won Ireland's great 17th-century victory, to the Italianate priory built for a Belfast distiller and later home to the Servite friars.

A short Main Street loop through a small Sperrins-edge village — a former RIC barracks, an early-19th-century terrace house, a set of 1920s street fountains, an old bank, a river bridge, and the closed 'Derry Road' railway station that once linked Beragh to Portadown and Omagh.

Walk the Main Street of an intact 18th/19th-century estate village — Georgian terraces, a courthouse built for the Earl of Caledon, a former narrow-gauge railway station, and the demesne gate to Caledon Castle itself.

From the ruined Plantation castle that gave the town its name, along the River Derg and up Main Street to the Diamond, this short loop threads through Castlederg's Georgian and Victorian core.

Walk one of Ireland's oldest ecclesiastical hills, from the Iron Age royal fort of Rathmore up to the Church of Ireland cathedral said to have been founded by a companion of St Patrick, and on past the old Bishop's Palace to the site of the Famine-era workhouse.

Trace Coalisland from its coal-and-canal boom to its quiet Main Street today — a drained basin under a car park, two churches built a world apart, and the bridge over a railway that vanished in 1965.

Walk the spine of one of Ireland's longest, widest, dead-straight streets — from a Great War memorial and Victorian railway terminus, past four different denominations' churches, to an Edwardian court house at the southern end of Cookstown's historic Main Street.

A short loop around the village that grew from a monastery St Patrick is said to have founded for the Fir Imchlair. Walk from the old church and graveyard to the reassembled 9th-century high cross, then on past the settlement's souterrain, Main Street's Grade B parish church and the community heritage centre housed in an 1885 schoolhouse.

A short loop around a west Tyrone village founded in 1617 — an 18th-century river bridge, a Main Street that saw the first daylight arms raid of the War of Independence, a Presbyterian church opened in 1861, and the site of a vanished 300-year-old house.

From the O'Neill dynasty's hilltop stronghold to a Georgian meeting house that helped launch a parliament, walk the compact historic core of the Ulster Plantation town that was once Tír Eoghain's capital.

Follow Fintona's wide hilltop Main Street — one of Tyrone's oldest streets, grown from a 1431 stronghold — past its Victorian churches and halls to the site of the horse-drawn 'Fintona Fly' tram, the last of its kind in Ireland when it closed in 1957. Along the way, pause at the ruined 17th-century Donacavey churchyard and the former Eccles family demesne that shaped the town for three centuries.

A short loop around a planned Plantation-era market town, from the vanished narrow-gauge railway on Main Street to the Tudor gate lodge of the Montgomery family's Blessingbourne estate.

A short walk down Gortin's 585-metre Main Street, from a Victorian school and church at the western crossroads, past a former bank turned coffeeshop, to a Catholic church built on the foundations of the village's 1841 workhouse.

A short loop through a village whose name comes from the mills that once turned on the River Torrent - from an ancient monastic enclosure and its 1793 parish church to a Victoria Cross hero's memorial and the excavated site of the corn mill and creamery that gave Newmills its name.

Walk the Plantation-era streets of Newtownstewart, from the ruined castle Sir William Stewart renamed for his Scottish birthplace to the Georgian church, banking scandal and Victorian town hall that grew up in its shadow.

From the hilltop Courthouse to the spires of Church Street and a hill that carried a medieval friary, a Plantation fort and a Georgian gaol, trace the layered history of Tyrone's county town at the meeting of two rivers.

Climb to the highest village square in County Tyrone, past its two churches, a crumbling court house and a pub with a bottled ghost, then follow the road out to a lonely Victorian vault at the gates of Pomeroy Forest Park.

Walk the streets of one of Ireland's best-preserved Victorian model villages, from the Herdmans' water-powered flax mill to the half-timbered churches, terraces and family mansion the linen dynasty built around it.

A short loop around a village founded in 1634 that still stands beside an earthwork centuries older than itself — from a Scheduled early medieval rath, past two 19th-century churches, to the listed fountains and pumps that once watered Main Street.

Walk the compact heart of a border town where a printer's apprentice helped launch American independence, a canal once carried schooners to the Foyle, and a Market House stood for two centuries before a single night in 1972 ended it.