Burntollet was the setting for an infamous attack during the so called Troubles of Northern Ireland[1]. A nationalist march from Belfast to Derry was attacked whilst passing through Burntollet on the 4th of January, 1969 [2]. A loyalist crowd, numbering in the region of 200, attacked the civil rights marchers from adjacent high ground. Various missiles were used in the assault, as well as iron bars in hand to hand fighting. Nearby members of the Royal Ulster Constabulary did little to prevent the violence[3]. The attack was described by Lord Paul Bew, an academic at Queen's University Belfast, as the spark that lit the prairie fire[4].