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5 unusual facts about River Foyle


Apprentice Boys of Derry

The siege of Derry ended when, under the orders of the Dutch Marshall Frederic Schomberg, three armed merchant ships, the Mountjoy, the Phoenix and the Jerusalem, sailed up the River Foyle.

BBC Radio Foyle

It is named after the River Foyle which flows through the city where the station is based.

Dance Lexie Dance

Self-taught, Laura enters a dance contest across the River Foyle in a Catholic district.

James Brunlees

For this job he was obliged to build an embankment over Rosse’s Bay on the River Foyle, surmounting great difficulties.

LPHC No.3 R.H. Smyth

A fairly typical 0-6-0 saddle tank built to the 5'3" Irish broad gauge, she led a rather uneventful life shunting the dual gauge (5'3" and 3') docks in Derry on the west bank of the River Foyle in Northern Ireland.


Foyle Bridge

It crosses the River Foyle to the north of the city, and forms only the second of three bridges linking the city centre to the Waterside, the others being the Craigavon Bridge and the Peace Bridge walkway.

Londonderry railway station

In 2010, the Minister for Regional Development, Conor Murphy, mooted the possibility of building a new railway station that would connect the railway with a planned foot and cycle bridge across the Foyle, bringing it closer to the centre of the city.


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Mac Con Midhe

There was a branch of this Ulster sept who were erenaghs of Comber, on the river Foyle in the deanery of Derry, and they are recorded as such as late as 1606 when Bishop Montgomery's survey of the diocese was made.