Newmills

Places of interest

• Annaginny Fisheries is a stocked and managed put and take rainbow trout fishery consisting of four lakes, two for fly-fishing only and two for spinning and worm fishing.
• Roughan Castle and Roughan Lough are situated a mile outside Newmills on the road to Stewartstown. The castle was built in 1618 by Sir Andrew Stewart and was once the refuge of Sir Phelim O’Neill, leader of the Irish Rebellion of 1641 in Ulster. He was captured there in 1653 and taken to Dublin, where he was hanged for treason. The small square castle is three storeys high with a central tower. Roughan Lough contains a Crannog and is currently the home of the Mid-Ulster Waterskiing club.
• Newmills Presbyterian Church. There has been a worshiping congregation at Newmills since 1835. At present the congregation is part of the Presbytery of Tyrone, and is a united congregational charge with Carland Presbyterian Church. At present there are one hundred and forty families connected with the congregation. Currently the minister is the Rev. David Brownlow, who was installed there by the Presbytery of Tyrone on Wednesday, 3 September 2008.

  People

• Robert Morrow, recipient of the Victoria Cross

  Politics

• Newmills is in the Dungannon and South Tyrone Borough Council area at the geographic centre of the Torrent ward.

  Sport

• Association Football is most popular local sport, and a number of teams from Newmills enter local leagues in the South Tyrone area.

People

• Robert Morrow, received the Victoria Cross for bravery on 12 April 1915 near Messines, Belgium during World War I. He was killed in action on 26 April 1915.
• Lydia Mary Foster, novelist, writer and poet, was the daughter of Rev. James Foster, the Presbyterian Minister of Newmills from 1850 to 1890.