Carrickmore (Carraig Mhachaire Rois) is a village in the centre of County Tyrone on the Clogher Valley side of the mid-Tyrone plateau, set among upland farmland with wide views to the Sperrins and Bessy Bell hills. The plateau here carries a mix of improved and rough grazing, with hawthorn hedges on the better-drained drumlin slopes and gorse banks on the rougher hillside ground. Heather and bilberry appear on the open moorland ridges above the farmed land. The village serves the surrounding farming community, and the local farmsteads carry fruit trees and garden planting. The Institute of Northern Ireland Beekeepers covers this mid-Tyrone area.
Collectors attend swarms in the hawthorn and gorse on the drumlin and hillside field banks, in the garden trees and orchard plots of the village properties, on the heather and bilberry on the open moorland ridges above the farmed ground, along the stream margins in the valley bottoms, and in the eaves and stone outbuildings of the older farm and residential properties.
Nearest BBKA-affiliated associations to help with swarm collection and local advice.
BT26 6NH· approx. 71 km
CA24 3HZ· approx. 225 km
Visit websiteLL77 7NX· approx. 232 km
Association data sourced from the British Beekeepers Association directory via SwarmBase.
Blackthorn and whitethorn drumlin hedges open the year. Sycamore and hawthorn dominate May. Lime is present in Omagh, Dungannon and Strabane. The Sperrins contribute bell and ling heather in August — a dark, thick crop some Tyrone beekeepers work seriously. Bilberry in the oakwoods adds a June supplement; rosebay willowherb is dense on every disused rail line and stone quarry. Ivy finishes the year on whitewashed cottages.
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