The River Faughan courses through a valley of chilly beginning with huge stores of sand and rock present all through the catchment. Ascending on the western slants of the Sperrin Mountain extend the waterway streams in a north-westerly bearing where it is in the end released into Lough Foyle. Area utilization is transcendently peripheral unpleasant touching in the uplands moving to swamp brushing and arable in the lower ranges. The River Faughan and tributaries have a channel length of give or take 66 km.
