page_title: Inishowen
section_title: Tourism
hierarchical_section_title: Inishowen / Tourism
caption_attribution_description: English: Inishowen Head. Showing sheep grazing near the old lookout post. Portrush and Portstewart in the distance.
context_page_description: Inishowen is a peninsula in the north of County Donegal in Ireland. Inishowen is the largest peninsula on the island of Ireland.
  The Inishowen peninsula includes Ireland's most northerly point, Malin Head. The Grianan of Aileach, a ringfort that served as the royal seat of the over-kingdom of Ailech, stands at the entrance to the peninsula.
context_section_description: Inishowen is at the starting (or ending) point of the Wild Atlantic Way.
  The Inishowen 100 tourist route  is an approximately 100-mile signposted scenic drive around the peninsula. It takes in or passes nearby many of the tourist sights and places of interest on the peninsula. It starts at Bridgend where there is a lay-by with a large map and information boards.  The first leg of the coastal route is along the coast of Lough Swilly. It passes Inch Island, Fahan (a  blue flag beach), Fahan 18-hole Golf Course,  Buncrana Town, Tullyarvan Mill (An interpretive centre tracing  over 250 years of textile production in the Buncrana area.).  It continues along the western coast on Lough Swilly. The routes passes Dunree beach, Dunree Fort (military museum) and then turns inland for Mamore Gap (between the Urris Hills and Raghtin More mountain),  Leenan Bay, Dunaff, Head, Tullagh Bay (a blue flag beach),  through the villages of Clonmany and Ballyliffin. Ballyliffin has an 18-hole golf course.
  The route then passes the Isle of Doagh (where there is a famine museum and an interpretive centre). Next is Carndonagh - the second largest town in Inishowen, after which the route turns North again through Malin Town, past Five Fingers Strand and then up onto cliff top viewpoint at Knockamany Bens, then down again to sea level with the route looking out into the Atlantic, before heading to Ireland's most northerly point Malin Head.
  On the North Eastern coast the route passes through Culdaff village and Culdaff Bay (another Blue Flag beach), Tramone Bay, and Kinnagoe Bay. Further East, it reaches Lough Foyle and then Greencastle (a port used by fishing boats and a landing point for the car ferry from Magilligan in Northern Ireland). Then, as the road heads South along Lough Foyle, it passes through Moville town, Quigley's Point and the village of Muff.
caption: Sheep grazing at Inishowen Head
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