Lissan House

#2695 among destinations in the United Kingdom

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Lissan House is a historic house and tourist attraction in County Tyrone, Northern Ireland, that was the seat of the Staples baronets. Lissan lies nestled at the foot of the Sperrin Mountains amid ancient woodland near the historic market town of Cookstown. ()

Coordinates: 54°40'57"N, 6°45'53"W

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Lissan House – popular in the area (distance from the attraction)

Nearby attractions include: Springhill House, Drum Manor Forest Park, Slieve Gallion, Killymoon Castle.

4.3 miE
Historical place, Reportedly haunted, History museum
Springhill House, Magherafelt
111 min walk • Springhill is a 17th-century plantation house in the townland of Ballindrum near Moneymore, County Londonderry in Northern Ireland. It has been the property of the National Trust since 1957 and, in addition to the house, gardens and park, there is a costume collection and a purported ghost.
3.6 miSW
Nature, Natural attraction, Forest
Drum Manor Forest Park, Cookstown
93 min walk • Drum Manor Forest Park is a forest in Northern Ireland, south of the Sperrin Mountains and west of Lough Neagh. It was bought from a private owner in 1964 and opened to the public in 1970.
3.4 miN
Nature, Natural attraction, Volcano
Slieve Gallion
87 min walk • Slieve Gallion is a mountain in County Londonderry, Northern Ireland. It is the easternmost of the Sperrin Mountains. It reaches a height of 528 metres and dominates the western shore of Lough Neagh.
3.5 miS
Forts and castles
Killymoon Castle, Cookstown
89 min walk • Killymoon Castle is a castle situated about one mile south east of Cookstown, County Tyrone, Northern Ireland, on the north bank of the Ballinderry River.
5.3 miS
Archaeological site
Tullyhogue Fort, Cookstown
135 min walk • Tullyhogue Fort, also spelt Tullaghoge or Tullahoge, is large mound on the outskirts of Tullyhogue village near Cookstown, County Tyrone, Northern Ireland. It has a depressed centre and is surrounded by trees. It is an ancient ceremonial site where the Chiefs of the Clan O'Neill of Tyrone were inaugurated.
3.3 miS
Archaeological site
Gortalowry, Cookstown
84 min walk • Gortalowry is a townland in County Tyrone, Northern Ireland. It is situated in the barony of Dungannon Upper and the civil parish of Derryloran and covers an area of 281 acres.
4.6 miN
Prehistoric site
Corick
119 min walk • Corick is a megalithic site and townland in the civil parish of Ballynascreen, County Londonderry, Northern Ireland. It includes a stone circle and a stone row.
0.6 miNE
Church
Lissan
17 min walk • Lissan is a civil and Anglican and Roman Catholic ecclesiastical parish that spans parts of County Londonderry and County Tyrone, Northern Ireland. The local Roman Catholic church was built in 1908.
2.5 miS
54°38'51"N • 6°44'53"W
Cookstown Library, Cookstown
65 min walk • Library