COUNTY ARMAGH
The Argory. Moy. Tel: (028) 8778 4753. National Trust house where acetylene gas-lit mantles still glow.
County Museum. The Mall, Armagh. Tel: (028) 3752 3070. Regional linen & transport history.
Lough Neagh Discovery Centre. Oxford Island, Craigavon Tel: (028) 3832 2205. Restored, the house details life on Britain’s first (1742) inland canal.
Observatory & Planetarium. College Hill Armagh. Tel: (028) 3752 3689. Founded by Archbishop Robinson in 1790 the Observatory’s l0-in telescope and George III’s quadrant may be contrasted with the Planetarium’s NASA starshows.
Palace Stables Heritage Centre. Priory Rd. Armagh. Armagh’s people, in audio visual, and their farming and linen industry past.

COUNTY DOWN
Annalong Corn Mill. Annalong. Tel: (028) 4376 8736. Summer tours of 1830 water-powered, harbour-side corn mill.
Ballycopeland Windmill. Millisle. Tel: (028) 9186 1413. Hands on experience at one of two working Irish windmills.
Downpatrick Railway Station. Downpatrick. Tel (028) 4461 5779. Locomotives and such from 1862, plus steam puffing rides.
Newry Museum. Bank Parade, Newry. Tel: (028) 3026 6232. The region’s industrial heritage.
Silent Valley. Kilkeel Tel: (028) 4176 2817. Over 30 million gallons flow from here to Belfast’s taps daily. The TIC explains.
Victoria Lock, Omeath Rd. Newry. Tel: (028) 3031 3233. The canal’s mouth, l9th century, 200ft long.
Ulster Folk & Transport Museum Cultra. Tel (028) 9042 8428. Ulster’s rural & transportation industries magnificently displayed, including the story of the Titanic, built in the nearby shipyard of Harland & Wolff.

COUNTY FERMANAGH
Belleek Pottery. Belleek. Tel: (028) 6865 8501. Ireland’s oldest, a must for tourists with its tours, shop, cafe & museum.
Castle Archdale Country Park. Kesh. Tel: (028) 6862 1333/1588. World War II flying boats recalled.
Florence Court House. Florencecourt. Tel: (028) 6634 8249. An hydraulic ram & 1840 water-powered sawmill, gems in the grounds of this National Trust House.

COUNTY LONDONDERRY
Earhart Centre. Ballyarnet, L’derry. Tel: (028) 7135 4040. Cottage museum honours Amelia Earhart's first woman's transatlantic flight, where she put down.
Foyle Valley Railway Centre. Derry City. Tel: (028) 7126 5234. Railcar trips on narrow gauge which carried the County Donegal plus the Londonderry & Lough Swilly Railways, plus rolling stock.
Knockloughrim Windmill. Maghera. Now a heritage centre – the 1860 mill’s sails blew off in the 1895 Great Wind.
Roe Valley Country Park Limavady. Tel: (028) 7772 2074. Ulster’s first domestic hydro-electric plant, and linen machinery by the Roe’s beautiful banks.
Tower Museum. Derry City. Tel: (028) 7137 2411. Shirt making’s history from the 1830’s plus that of other trades.

COUNTY TYRONE
Benburb Valley Park Heritage Centre. Benburb. Tel: (028) 3754 9885. An 1899 Coates steam engine, a 1908 McDonald water-turbine in a restored linen mill by Ulster’s flowery vale.
Coalisland Cornmill. Coalisland. Tel: (028) 8774 8532. Coalisland’s history is Ulster’s in microcosm & the mill’s displays record those of coal, brick, canal, railway.
Fivemiletown Library. Fivemiletown. Tel : (028) 8952 1409. The Clogher Valley Railway remembered.
Gray’s Printing Press. Strabane. Tel: (028) 7188 4094. l9th century printing presses & processes.
Peatlands Park. Dungannon. Tel: (028) 3885 1102. Peatland ecology, its past and the current environmental consequences. Railway, visitor centre and Nature Reserve.
Sperrin Heritage Centre. Glennelly Rd., Omagh. Tel: (028) 8164 8142. Gold mining explained, goldpanning experienced .
Tyrone Crystal. Dungannon. Tel: (028) 8772 5335. Hand-blown, hand-cut glass skills from 1771, modernised and adapted, which may be toured.
Ulster-American Folk Park. Camphill, Omagh. Tel: (028) 8224 3292. Blacksmithing, spinning, weaving and emigration, explained, demonstrated.
Wellbrook Beetling Mill. Cookstown. Tel: (028) 8675 1735. The beetling hammers beat linen to a sheen. The water-powered mill (1765), was once much larger. National Trust. (Open Weekends only.)