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One priest s vision to bring the zoo to a County Derry village
The zoo eventually fell victim to the Troubles after the onset of internment.
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Most are familiar with Fr James Horan s campaign to capitalise on the tourism boom in Knock, County Mayo, by building an airport, but two decades beforehand, another clergyman had implemented his own grand ideas to bring a zoo to rural north Derry.
Liam Tunney finds out more about the fascinating story.
Across Ireland s north coast, the 1960s brought a boom in local tourism.
The National Trust had taken ownership of the Giant s Causeway, announced to the wider world in 1963 after a paper was presented to the Royal Society by Sir Richard Bulkeley.