A literary trail is being created in Co Derry to showcase the area celebrated in Seamus Heaney’s poetry.
Funding of £688,700 (€905,138) is being provided by the UK’s National Lottery.
The trail is expected to include the eel factory at Toome and Lagan's Road Anahorish.
Lagan's Road inspired many of Heaney’s poems from his days walking from Mossbawn to Anahorish Primary School.
Many of his best known poems are set in the area, yet many of these places are inaccessible to the public and traditional ways of life are slowly fading from memory.
Head of Heritage Lottery Fund for Northern Ireland Paul Mullan said: "His inspiration came from the people, the landscape and the rural traditions of south Derry.
"What better way to celebrate his legacy than to re-connect local people to his work and make many of the sites that millions all over the world have been mesmerised by through his poems accessible for all to see."
Heaney died in August 2013 aged 74.
In 1995, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature.
A Seamus Heaney Arts Centre is being constructed in his home village of Bellaghy.
The Heritage Lottery Fund is granting the money to the Living Past Project, which that aims to connect Heaney's great poems to people and communities in the area; to preserve the traditional rural life that inspired Heaney and to make some of the sites that feature in his poems accessible.
The literary trail will feature nine local sites referenced by Heaney.
There will be children's activities including a post primary programme connecting his poetry to the landscape.
The project will include elements on rural life: collecting stories and making videos of activities inspired by poems such as Churning Day, Blackberry Picking and The Forge.
Links are also being established with universities and colleges in Northern Ireland and the Republic as well as the two universities where Heaney taught: Oxford and Harvard.
