About the park
Peatlands Park sits on land once worked for turf by the Irish Peat Development Company, near Annaghmore on the southern shore of Lough Neagh. The peat under your feet has been forming for roughly 10,000 years, and the park was set up to protect that habitat and let people walk through it on trails and boardwalks.
The narrow-gauge railway was built in 1989 along the route of the old turf workings. Two diesel locomotives from the original line are preserved here with replica turf wagons, a reminder of how the bog was cut and carried. The park is managed by the Northern Ireland Environment Agency.