Limavady Visitor Guide

A market town not far from Derry city. It is one of Ulster’s most characteristically Georgian towns. It was here that Jane Ross noted down the famous Derry Air (‘Danny Boy’) from a passing fiddler. But its great charm for the tourist is the Roe Valley Country Park. The river Roe winds through gorges where the rapids turned the waterwheels of several mills. The mills and a 19th-century hydro-electric plant have been restored, and the weaving shed houses a museum. The park has a modern visitor centre and a camping and caravan park. The 18-hole Roe Park golf course is on the western outskirts of the town.