Every time we visit Northern Ireland we find a new and interesting place to explore; this time it was Mountsandel, now a lovely forest walk but once the site of the earliest known human activity in Ireland, a camp made nearly 10,000 (yes ten thousand) years ago.
There was a wonderful variety of trees, elms, oaks, beech, sycamore, conifers – the name of which I don’t know, lots of ash trees, rowan trees, may… oh and many more!
Mountsandel is on the banks of the River Bann in Coleraine, and from the top of a mysterious fort (is it Iron Age, is it earlier, is later, is it a fort at all?) there are splendid views.
Lois Elsden 