Convoy is small. No hotels, no restaurants, no main tourist machine. It's a village where people live — farmers, families, locals who've stayed or returned. The land around it is the Finn Valley, soft and rolling, and the river is the reason the valley exists at all.
What made Convoy was linen. In the 18th and 19th centuries, the Finn Valley was alive with flax-scutching mills and hand looms — women and men at frames, cloth piling up. That's gone now. What remains is the knowledge that this place was made by human hands, and the knowledge that those hands moved on.
The Beltany Stone Circle sits a few kilometres north — 65 stones in a field, Bronze Age, older than any of this. It's the kind of place you find by asking directions, and by the time you arrive, you've walked long enough to understand why it sits where it does. No car park. No café. Just stones and the view.
Three things every local will eventually mention. Read these and you've already understood more than most day-trippers do.
Convoy sits in the Finn Valley, where sheep outnumber people and the land rises soft to the east. The river runs past, the road does not rush. It was a weaving village once. The looms are gone.
Stories & lore → 02 Beltany Stone CircleOne of Ireland's largest stone circles — around 65 stones, set in the ground ~3,400 years ago. Not a famous walk. Not a packed tourist site. A field, a ring of stones, and the kind of quiet you don't get in towns.
Walks & outings → 03 Finn ValleyThe valley follows the Finn River south toward Ballybofey and Lifford. It's green, it's gentle, and it's real — not a postcard, but the thing postcards pretend to show.
Getting there →The reason to come back. The things every local will eventually tell you about, usually after the second pint.
Wear waterproofs. Bring a sandwich. Tell someone where you're going if it's the mountain.
Ballybofey is 6 km south on the R255. Raphoe is 5 km east. Letterkenny is 25 km north.
Lough Swilly Bus operates services through the valley. Check timetables locally.