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South of the Derry-Antrim A6 road, the landscape settles down into a pattern more familiar to the Republic: fertile farming land rising to the Sperrin Mountains , punctuated by small planned towns. The pattern in the North is subtly different, though, because the grants of land here were not made to individuals but to various London guilds or companies. Consequently, there isn't the strange, late-flowering feudalism that you see in the Republic, with its repeated archetype of Big House and surrounding town, but rather entirely planned towns , such as Magherafelt and Moneymore , often built on green-field sites selected by professionals, who specialized in doing just that. The huge expanse of Ireland's biggest lake, Lough Neagh , laps against the county's southeastern corner and here too is one of the must-see sites of the entire North, Bellaghy Bawn .
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