Ardboe Old Cross and St. Colman’s Abbey is a national monument dating from the 10th century. It is believed to be the first high cross of Ulster, standing at 18.5 feet high and 3.5 feet wide, with 22 panels depicting various Biblical scenes. There are also remains of a church and an abbey. The abbey was founded by St Colman in 590 and the church is believed to have been built in the 16th century.

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The Broughderg area is remote and peaceful and is renowned for its unique archaeological remains. The scenery includes the Coneyglen Valley and Davagh Forest with its walks and extensive blanket bog. The vast array of archaeological features indicate active communities living in this area for at least 7000 years, illustrated by the field boundaries and cairns of the first farmers. Countless standing stones, megalithic tombs, court and wedge tombs are located within this area. Particularly well known sites are Dun Ruadh, the Ogham Stone and the Beaghmore Stone Circles. 

Derryloran Old Church and Graveyard was built in 1622 replacing an old church on the same site. 200 years later a new church was built on a site where the present one now stands. It was designed by John Nash and built from hewn stone in simple Gothic style with a pinnacle tower, plain spire and vaulted vestibule. The present church was extended in 1861 from the older design. Some of the graves in Derryloran graveyard date back to the early 17th Century. 

On an imposing hilltop encircled by trees some 2 miles south/south east of Cookstown and on the outskirts of Tullyhogue village is the site of the mystical Tullaghoge Fort, prominently standing testimony to Tyrone's illustrious past. It was here on this hilltop enclosure that the ruling members of each generation of the Cenel nEogain (later to be known as ‘The O’Neills’) were inaugurated from the 11th Century to the end of the 16th Century. 

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Beaghmore Stone Circles are a reflection of the ritual and spiritual life in the early Bronze Age.  Archaeologists believe that Beaghmore Stone Circles date back to around 1500BC.  There are 7 stone circles and alignments along with several cairns on this spectacular preserved site.  It has been suggested that the circles and alignments have some connection with astronomy but a more popular theory is that they may well have served some function in fertility rites.   

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