We went for a meal with my parents last night to the Pot Belly restaurant in Tullylish. The pot belly restaurant is in a converted part of the old bleach mill which also houses a pottery.
The fields which used to be the bleach green, where the linen was dried can still be seen nearby. The folk and transport museum now displays the watchman's tower from the bleach green at Tullylish.
Our family has been going there for many years, when we used to go for Sunday Lunch I would head off down the river after the main course for an hour or two, as the old mill was fed by the River Bann. Gilford Angling Club owns the fishing rights for about 8 miles downstream and a couple of miles upstream.
Tullylish is a lovely village despite being only a few houses big, opposite the entrance to the pot belly is Tullylish House, a rather grand home, with a cricket pitch in the grounds. Tullylish Cricket Club play there in the summer months and it is known as Banford Green.
It is possible to park at Tullylish parish church and walk downstream to Gilfrord and beyond to Knock Bridge and Portadown if you are feeling adventurous. This walk will take you past a host of old mills in varying degrees of dilapadation. If they were in England I'm sure they would all be converted in to homes by now. Tullylish, despite being so small shows 8 mills in the village on the Ordanance Survey map of 1836.