TheGlenshane Pass (from Irish Gleann Seáin 'Shane's valley') is a majormountain pass cutting through theSperrin Mountains inCounty Londonderry,Northern Ireland. It is in thetownland of Glenshane Pass on the mainDerry toBelfast route, theA6.

A largewildfire broke out in Glenshane Pass in late June 2018, burning more than 600 acres of dry gorse in the pass by 27 June.

It is aSpecial Area of Conservation. Carn/Glenshane Pass is a large area of intactblanket bog, characterised by undulatingtopography and including a large, well-developed hummock and pool system within a thick mantle of blanket peat.^[1] It is also classed as anArea of Special Scientific Interest.^[2] The Ponderosa is the second highest public house on the island of Ireland, situated 288 metres (945 feet) above sea level.^[3]

The Glenshane Pass derives its name from the townland of Glenshane. It is named afterShane Crossagh O'Mullan a notoriousrapparee, orhighwayman, who roamed the highways ofCounty Londonderry andCounty Tyrone in the late seventeenth and early eighteenth century.^[4]

• On 24 June 1972, threeBritish Army soldiers were killed by alandmine explosion on the Glenshane Pass.^[5] Their Land Rover was destroyed by twoIEDs consisting of 120 lbs of explosive packed in milk churns.^[6]
• On 17 March 1978, a British Army soldier was shot dead in a gun battle withIRA gunmen near the Glenshane Pass. Some reports said he was involved in a covert observation post when he spotted two suspected gunmen. He stood up to challenge the men and was fatally wounded, but he shot back wounding one man.^[6]

54°52′48″N6°47′27″W / 54.88006°N 6.79084°W /54.88006; -6.79084

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