What is recorded here
Ards Forest Park covers about 480 hectares across woodland, shore, dunes, salt marsh and lakes. Coillte records four ringfort remains, a holy well and a Mass rock within the park, tying its walking ground directly to Donegal's older settlement and religious history.
On the shore of Sheephaven Bay near Creeslough. One of the most varied forest parks in the country, with sand dunes, salt marsh, beaches, ancient oak and the ruins of a Franciscan friary in under the trees. The friars still keep a retreat house on the estate.
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Places near here
folly773 yd
The ManseManse · 957 yd
Ballymore Lower Tomb near DunfanaghyMegalithic tomb · 1247 yd
Faymore DolmenNamed dolmen · 1.3 mi_-_geograph.org.uk_-_774533.jpg/250px-Marble_Hill_Strand_(1)_-_geograph.org.uk_-_774533.jpg "Photo: Ross, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0")
Marble HillOfficial bathing water · 2.2 mi
Kill Old Church GraveyardGraveyard · 2.4 mi
Local Wildlife presentationVisitor information · 2.6 mi
Ards Friary Coastal LoopOfficial walking route · 2.6 mi
Clonmass IslandIslet · 2.7 mi
Monterey Cypress2.7 mi
Monterey Pine2.7 mi
Doe CastleCastle, tower house · 2.7 miPictures: National Inventory of Architectural Heritage; Rossographer, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0; Kenneth Allen, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0; Ross, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0; Kenneth Allen, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0; Joseph Mischyshyn, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0; Rossographer, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0; Vadim Manuylov, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 3.0; dalvenjah on Flickr, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0; Original uploaded by Brendandh (Transfered by Lvova ), Wikimedia Commons · CC BY 2.5
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