Favour Royal

Favour Royal forest park is situated just outside Clogher and approximately half way between Augher and Aughnacloy.

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There are a number of interesting walks through this forest park. One of the shortest of these is the river walk along the Blackwater via a Meadow and deer lawn with adjoining picnic area. Another option is though Altadaven Glen. Also within the forest there is a 17th Century garden and a house dated around 1824. Keep a lookout for the many Fallow Deer that roam this forest and for one of Ireland's rarest mammals the pine martin.

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Favour Royal contains one of the People's Millenium Forests Project. This project is was established to restore and create new native woodlands. As part of the project 40,000 native Irish trees were planted, including oak, ash and Scots Pine. Two hectares of the woodland have been set aside as a research project and will be allowed to regenerate naturally. The remainder of the forest contains mature conifers and broadleaves including scots pine, ash, oak, birch and sitka spruce. For more information on the project Click Here.

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Altadaven Glen is a former Druid site. If you follow the white the arrows you will be atken on a 30 minute walk through the woodland via St. Patrick's Chair and Well.

The chair is a gigantic Druid stone carved from a single block of sandstone. Tradition has it that a wish made sitting on the chair will come true if not disclosed to anyone else.

Steps lead down to St. Partick's Well from the Chair. The well is a small dish shaped depression in solid rock which never runs dry. Its waters have been credited with curing numerous diseases but would appear to specialise in the removal of warts.