Bellaghy

In the rural heartland of South Derry, close to the River Bann that divides Counties Derry and Antrim lies the small town of Bellaghy (pop. 1,100). Halfway between Belfast and Derry (making it an easy stop on a drive between both), Bellaghy is on the fringe of Lough Neagh—Ireland's biggest inland lake and a place memorialized in the poetry of Seamus Heaney.