Ballynahone Bog information

Designations
Designations
Ramsar Wetland
Official name	Ballynahone Bog
Designated	31 December 1998
Reference no.	967

Ballynahone Bog (from Irish Baile na hAbhann 'townland of the river'^[2]) is a raised bog, situated in County Londonderry, Northern Ireland, about 3 km south of Maghera, on low-lying ground immediately north of the Moyola River about 14 km from its mouth at Lough Neagh. It is one of the largest lowland raised bogs in Northern Ireland.^[3]

^ "Ballynahone Bog". Ramsar Sites Information Service. Retrieved 25 April 2018.
^ Toner, Gregory: Place-Names of Northern Ireland, Volume Five, County Derry I, The Moyola Valley, page 173. The Institute of Irish Studies, The Queen's University Belfast, 1996. ISBN 0-85389-613-5
^ "Designated and Proposed Ramsar sites in Northern Ireland" (PDF). Joint Nature Conservation Committee. Retrieved 7 July 2008.

[1] "Ballynahone Bog". Ramsar Sites Information Service. Retrieved 25 April 2018.

[2] Toner, Gregory: Place-Names of Northern Ireland, Volume Five, County Derry I, The Moyola Valley, page 173. The Institute of Irish Studies, The Queen's University Belfast, 1996. ISBN 0-85389-613-5

[JN-3] "Designated and Proposed Ramsar sites in Northern Ireland" (PDF). Joint Nature Conservation Committee. Retrieved 7 July 2008.

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