Lagans Road

Lagans Road

Lagans road is a narrow tree-lined road near Seamus Heaney's birthplace. It is just off the new A6 dual carriageway just after crossing the Toome bridge coming from Belfast and near the turn off for Bellaghy. He has described going along it on his first day at school, escorted by a neighbour's daughter..

"Brings on his long-legged self on the Lagans Road

Edward Thomas in his khaki tunic2

Known locally as a lover's retreat the road reminds Heaney of Edward Thomas, a first world war poet who inspired Robert Frost's most famous poem " The Road not Taken". Frost went on walks with Thomas and listened to his indecisiveness about which route to take in his career. Heaney was an admirer of Frost.

​Look carefully at the painting of the trees on the right. I got my images on a bright spring day.

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