Entertainment : Activities : History/Folklore

Places to visit
in and near Rosguill

• Mevagh Church (ruins)
  Built in 11th century (distinctive stone cross
  in Graveyard)

• Mass Rock,
  used in Penal Times, from 1704

• Downings Cashel
  or ring fort

• Memorial to 4th Earl
  – opposite Carrigart Hotel

• Pier at Downings
  Built 1880. The “Stations” behind pier, used
  during the Herring boom 1887 – 1914

• Millenium Memorial
  on road to pier

• Graveyard
  in Church of Ireland, Carrigart

• Melmore Tower
  Built 1804 as lookout (Napoleonic wars)
  

• Summit of Ganiamore
  205 metres, 20 minute climb – reasonable footwear
  required

• Cross
  at Dundoan, erected by Mrs Philimore in
  1910

Driving

• Lough Salt

• Horn Head

• Fanad Head

• Glenveagh / Poison Glen

• Bloody Foreland