Derry Travel Guide — Things to Do, Food & Hotels
city in Northern Ireland
About Derry
Accept at the outset that you will occasionally use the wrong name, or rather a right name in the wrong company, and be thunderously corrected. The multiple names of this city reflect its deep layers of history. Doireis Irish for "oak grove". Glaciers gouged out the fjord of Lough Foyle, and as they retreated the Atlantic lowlands became carpeted in oak forest. Oak was essential so it's a common place-name element: Edenderry, Durrow, Kildare, Adare, and so on. Oak timber was needed for ships, carts, houses, furniture, fences . . . but even more it was needed to make charcoal to fire furnaces for metal-working and glass-blowing. (Coal was too dirty, and coke hadn't been invented.) A monastic settlement grew up atDoireat the head of the lough, while the forests were felled at a rate worthy o
Top Attractions in Derry
Explore the best things to see and do in Derry:
- ★Apprentice Boys Memorial Hall
- ★Derry City FC
- ★Derry Girls Mural
- ★Foyle Valley Railway Museum
- ★Grianan of Aileach
- ★Guildhall
- ★Museum of Free Derry
- ★St Columb's Cathedral
Where to Eat in Derry
Must-try local food and restaurants:
- 🍴Badgers Bar and Restaurant
- 🍴Brown's Bonds Hill
- 🍴Cedar
- 🍴Danano Forno
- 🍴Doherty's Home Bakery
- 🍴Fiorentini's
Where to Stay in Derry
- 🏨Beech Hill Country House Hotel
- 🏨Best Western Plus White Horse Hotel
- 🏨Bishop's Gate Hotel
- 🏨City Hotel Derry
- 🏨Da Vinci's Hotel
- 🏨Everglades Hotel
Derry Travel Guide Sections
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