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The Skeoge Road was opened a few days before this photograph was taken. It is a new road that connects the Foyle Bridge (built twenty five years ago) to the Buncrana Road that crosses the border into County Donegal. The local planners, the Road Service and Derry City Council have been talking about this road for almost twenty years. Finally it is open. It will allow people travelling from County Donegal to reach the bridge without getting tangled in the Derry city traffic. The opening of the road marks the re-zoning of the land that you see around this panorama from agricultural-use to urban-use. Hence, as with many beginnings this is also an end. If we return to this point in five years the mountains of Inishowen will still be there on the horizon but around us the fields will have gone to be replaced by housing developments and light industry. As the panorama opens you can just glimpse, at the spot where the road beyond the roundabout seems to fade into the distance, the hill on which stands the ancient stone fort known as "Grianan an Aileach ". Behind the scene : how this panorama was made
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