Travel Guide Inishowen

The peninsula of Inishowen is a wild land, isolated, secret to the north, but open, rich and enchanting to the southwest.Muff opens the path to Greencastle… In the west, the embrumées mountains (with the Centre Snaght centre, snow mountain) and east Lough Foyle (lake-marsh-sea at the road height: long silence stretching over miles).On Cardonagh, a gently animated small town, to admire the cross, Donagh Cross, of the th century. Although a little damaged, it retains all its primitive strength. Carved out of a room (without the central circle), it is carved in the upper part of the web that overcome a Christ in carved glory, a naive invoice (the expression of eyes, a dazzling smile). Two small pillars (broken cross remains?) surround him like two totems, engraved by a man playing the harp and a warrior: base of civilization.You will then go by Malin who indicates the direction of Malin Head. A little shift to Five Fingers Strand is required. The road fluctuates between mountains of pelées green rock and sand dunes (!) and suddenly leads to the sand of a enclosed cove by a cliff, open to the west on the estuary that we guess, enhanced to the north by a massive islet.Malin Head is the most extreme point in northern Ireland, surrounded by sea and misty silence.Pollen Bay in Doagh Isle. Ireland is an island. Inishowen is an island on the island, Doagh Isle is an island of the island on the island and Pollen Bay its écrin. Here, surprisingly, tropical colours are sinking, large waves, into the land. And at the end, a tower ruin. The world is stopping.Direction direction to pass the Gap of Mamore (260 m) and win Dunree Head. The road climbs dry to reach Gap of Mamore, but the point of view compensates for our penalties. The peeled hills, inhabited by the sheep and winds, to the onslaught of an intact sky, then, in the wake of an inward narrowing, the road winding between the slides of the two mountains, in a splendid dryness, before diving again on Dunree Head, through a landscape that it sometimes looks cycladique…And here's Fahan: mooring boats, beach, and next to the church - along the road, drowned in a romantic cemetery to wish, where the tombes crosses, where the grass invades the funeral stelas and the walls of the monastery of the th century - stands the Saint-Mura cross (of the th century). Monolithic, it leaves a embroidered web set on the ground of the cross. On the most interesting side, two sculpted characters of profile undoubtedly wear inscriptions while the flank is engraved by a Greek epitaph (illegible today).Finally on the Fahan-Letterkenny route, Grianan of Resturant (240 m high) is a kind of circular ring of stone savamment stacked in successive walls, in defensive stands brought by symmetrical stairs. Historically built around 1500 BC, he served as a residence in the ancient Ulster kings.