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Extract from the Castlederg Travel Guides:
The friendly market village of
CASTLEDERG
sits around a spruced-up square beside the River Derg, across whose waters lie the ruins of a plantation
castle
, built in 1619 and destroyed by Sir Phelim O'Neill during the 1641 Rebellion. Modern Castlederg retains something of its traditional flavour as a staging-post for travellers and a watering hole for pilgrims on their way to St Patrick's Purgatory on Lough Derg
. The town's bars and cafs make this a good place to stop for refuelling; and the
tourist office
, or Castlederg Visitor Centre, on the Lower Strabane Rd (A... read the whole Castlederg Travel Guides...
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