Glenshane Pass

The Glenshane Pass (from Irish Gleann Seáin 'Shane's valley') is a major mountain pass cutting through the Sperrin Mountains in County Londonderry, Northern Ireland.

It is in the townland of Glenshane Pass on the main Derry to Belfast route, the A6.

Carn/Glenshane Pass is a large area of intact blanket bog, characterised by undulating topography and including a large, well-developed hummock and pool system within a thick mantle of blanket peat.

[2] The Ponderosa is the second highest public house on the island of Ireland, situated 288 metres (945 feet) above sea level.

It is named after Shane Crossagh O'Mullan a notorious rapparee, or highwayman, who roamed the highways of County Londonderry and County Tyrone in the late seventeenth and early eighteenth century.