The Foyle Basin Project : Celebrating the Heritage of the Foyle Basin – its built, natural and cultural landscape
Project Officer: Dr Liam Campbell
The Foyle Civic Trust had identified a number of gaps in knowledge about the historic built and natural environment. It was felt that linking the physical heritage of the area with the local oral history and cultural traditions surrounding these heritage features, would create a fuller understanding of the Foyle Basin.
The Foyle Landscape Project attracted funding from a variety of sources. The project aimed to promote awareness, conservation and utilisation for tourism and cultural awareness of the built heritage, archaeological sites, natural heritage and landscape features in the Foyle Basin with a particular emphasis on those features associated with the Gaelic Order and the Plantation of Ulster.
Below is a summary of the various elements of the project:
Foyle Heritage Asset Audit
Audit of Significant Heritage Assets (Built, Natural and Cultural)
Foyle Heritage Audit NI Core Document
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Appendix 1
MAGILLIGAN LOWLANDS Historical Built Landscape: Significant Sites
LDY001:013 Heavy Anti-Aircraft Battery
HB02/09/002 Bellarena House & Estate
LDY005:014 Craigbolie Castle or Dun Crutheni Large Enclosure
LDY005:016 Duncrun Castle/Fortification
LDY005:002 Duncrun Ecclesiastical Site
LDY005:006 Dunpatrick Enclosure
The Belfast & Northern Counties Railway; The Londonderry and Coleraine Railway
LDY005:004 & 005 Tamlaght Ecclesiastical Remains
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FOYLE ALLUVIAL PLAIN Historical Built Landscape: Significant Sites
HB02/10/006 & 007 Ballykelly Presbyterian Church
The Belfast & Northern Counties Railway; The Londonderry and Coleraine Railway
LDY015:008, 009 &033 Eglinton Plantation Settlement
LDY014:066 Battle Site Caw/Gransha c.1200
LDY009:008 Findspot: Broighter Hoard
LDY014:009 & 010 O’Cahan Castle, Enagh Lough
LDY014:011 Rough Island or O’Cahan’s Garden
LDY015:024 Medieval Church Site
LDY015A:001 Tullybrisland Cross
LDY015A:003 Carrickhugh Battle Site 1197AD
HB01/03/014 Templemoyle House & Garden
LDY009:002, 007 & 019 Walworth Plantation Settlement, Ballykelly; Registered Garden L013 Walworth
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BURNGIBBAGH & DRUMAHOE Historical Built Landscape: Significant Sites
TYR002:003 Mountcastle: Plantation Castle
LDY022:013 Lisglass: Cross-Carved Stone
LDY022:004 Clondermot: Church & Graveyard
LDY015:045 Tully: Anti-Aircraft Operations Room
LDY015:016 Avish: Standing Stone
LDY014:005 Managh Beg: Possible Motte & Bailey
LDY002:037 Gortmellan, Pre-bog Field System
HB10/10/002A-C Dullerton Manor, Gate Lodge & Outbuildings
HB01/06/008 & 007 Beech Hill House, Gate Lodge & Historic Garden L029
HB01/06/006A-B Ashbrook House, Estate Structures & Historic Garden L001
HB01/06/012 Ardmore House & Historic Garden L031
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FOYLE VALLEY Historical Built Landscape: Significant Sites
HB10/06/002 Camus (aka The Grange), 42 Lisky Road, Strabane: House, Outbuildings & Walling
HB10/06/003 Camus House, 46 Lisky Road, Strabane
HB10/10/009 Grange House (Mill House), Grange Road, Strabane
HB10/04/018 Bellevue Villa, 21 Strabane Road, Newtownstewart
HB10/12/003 Gray’s Shop & Printing Presses
HB10/08/004B-C Carricklee House, Strabane, Courtyard, Stables & Gate Lodge
HB10/08/006 Urney Park Country House
HB10/06/011 Wilson House, 28 Spout Road, Dergalt, Strabane
HB10/11/001A-P Holy Hill House & Estate Related Structures
HB10/07/004 Herdmans Flax Spinning Mills
HB10/07/008A-B 122 & 124 Melmount Road, Sion Mills
TYR001:002 Fortified Town: Dunnalong Fort
TYR005:002 Portal Tomb: Rocking Stone
TYR005:010 Evish Wedge Tomb (Dermot & Grainne’s Bed)
TYR009:004 Urney Glebe: Monastery, Church, Graveyard & Cross-carved Stone
TYR010:003 Graveyard/Killeen: Children’s Burial Ground
TYR017:011 Castle Site: Pigeon Hill & TYR017:047 Castle & Bawn: Newtownstewart Castle
TYR017:012 Castle & Bailey: Harry Avery’s Castle
TYR017:034 Fortified House: Derrywoone Castle
TYR018:012 Franciscan Friary & Graveyard: Corick Abbey
TYR025:008 Court Tomb & TYR025:037 Wedge Tomb
HB10/11/004 42 Woodend Road, Strabane (Thatched House)
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DERRY SLOPES Historical Built Landscape: Significant Sites
HB01/27/018A-C Ballyarnett House & Farm; Registered Historic Garden L061
HB01/26/006 Belmont House & Registered Historic Garden L062, Racecourse Road
HB01/25/004A-C Boom Hall House, Stables and Gates/Screens/Lodge; Registered Historic Garden L003
HB01/26/003 A-B, Glengalliagh House & Gate Lodge; Registered Historic Garden L028
GNR Railway: Branch Line Portadown-Londonderry
HB01/27/006 Culmore Primary School, 181 Culmore Road
LDY013:002 Cairn with Cist – Megalithic Tomb?
LDY14A:023 Neolithic Settlement – Houses and Palisaded Enclosure
LDY014:074 White House or Ballymagroarty, WWII Heavy Anti-Aircraft Battery
LDY014A:001 Fortification, Culmore
LDY014A:034 Ballynagard, WWII Light Anti-Aircraft Battery
LDY014A:035 Scheduled Site: Culmore, Heavy Anti-Aircraft Battery
Londonderry and Lough Swilly Narrow Gauge Railway
HB01/25/001A-D Thornhill House, Stables, Gatelodge, Church & Registered Historic Garden L033
Appendix 6
CITY AREA – Historical Built Landscape: Significant Sites
LDY014:002 St Brecan’s Chapel, St Columb’s Chapel, Domnach Min-Cluane
LDY014:003, 033, 035, 039 & 064 Medieval Sites: Derry City
LDY014:032 O’Doherty’s Castle, LDY 014:018 St Columb’s Inauguration Stone & LDY 014A:003 Enclosure: Doherty Tower
LDY014:063 Historic Settlement:Derry, Doire-Calgaic, Derry-Calgach
LDY014:072 Fortification: Ebrington Barracks
Appendix 7
Appendix 8
Appendix 8 Consultation List
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Audit of Co. Donegal Side of the Foyle
Foyle Heritage Audit Donegal Core Document
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Appendix 1
ST JOHNSTON – LIFFORD Historical Built Landscape: Significant Sites
Ecclesiastical – Chapel of Ease St Columba
Ecclesiastical – Murlough, St Patrick’s Church
Ecclesiastical site – Churchtown
Ecclesiastical Site – Clonleigh
Ecclesiastical Site – Lifford, Church Hall
Ecclesiastical Site – Lifford, St Lugadius Ch
Gentlemans Houses – Ballyduff House, Lifford
Gentlemans Houses – Cavanacor House
Gentlemans Houses – Edenmore House
Industrial Landscape – Corn Mill, Unshinagh Lwr
Industrial Landscape – Windmill, Murlough
Institutional – Lifford, Garda Station
Medieval Site – Druminaw Ringfort
Medieval Site – Lifford Historic Town
Medieval Site – Mongavlin Fortified House
Post-medieval Site – Old Courthouse, Lifford
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CARRIGANS – ST JOHNSTON Historical Built Landscape: Significant Sites
Ecclesiastical – Haw (Taughboyne)
Ecclesiastical – Killea Parish Church, Carrigans
Ecclesiastical – Monreagh Presbyterian Church
Ecclesiastical – Saint Johnston Church & Graveyard
Ecclesiastical – St Baithins Church, St Johnston
Ecclesiastical – St Johnston Presbyterian Church
Gentlemans Houses – Carrigans Dunmore House
Gentlemans Houses – St Johnston Castletown House
Industrial Landscape – Church Town Church Town Mill
Industrial Landscape – Clashygowan Corn Mill
Medieval Site – Carrigans, Cloghfin (Killen ED) Castle
Medieval Site – Castlethird, Ringfort Cashel
Medieval Site – St. Johnston Historic Town
Prehistoric Site – Ardnamoghill Standing Stone
Prehistoric Site – Clashygowan Standing Stone
Prehistoric Site – Cloghfin Standing Stones
Schools – Carrigans Robertson School
Schools – St Johnston National School
Vernacular Buildings – Carrigans Cottage
Vernacular Buildings – Dunmore, Prospect Hill (house)
Vernacular Buildings – St Johnston Old Castletown
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QUIGLEYS PT – BURNFOOT Historical Built Landscape: Significant Sites
Vernacular Buidlings – Muff Thatched House
Prehistoric Site – Monreagh or Barr of Kilmackilvenny
Prehistoric Site – Eskaheen Standing Stone & Portal Tomb
Prehistoric Site – Drumhaggart Flat Cemetery
Prehistoric Site – Birdstown Demesne Cist
Prehistoric Site – Ardmore Standing Stone & Rock Art
Medieval Site – Tromaty Burial Ground
Medieval Site – Dundrean Ringfort
Medieval Site – Ardmore Ringfort
Industrial Landscape – Drumhaggart Former Watermill
Gentlemans Houses – Ardmore Kilderry House
Ecclesiastical Site – Eskaheen Church & Graveyard
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INISHOWEN HD – QUIGLEYS PT Historical Built Landscape: Significant Sites
Ecclesiastical – Ballybrack St Marys Church
Ecclesiastical – Ballynally St Columbs Church
Ecclesiastical Site – Carrowhugh
Ecclesiastical Site – Cooly Graveyard –
Ecclesiastical Site – Stroove- Holy Well, Burial & Stone
Ecclesiastical Site – Clare Presbyterian Graveyard
Ecclesiastical Site – Drung St Columbas Church
Ecclesiastical Site – Moville Church of St Pius X
Gentlemans Houses – Carnagarve Carnagarve House
Gentlemans Houses – Eleven Ballyboes, The Manor House
Medieval Site – Ballyrattan Castle-unclassified
Medieval Site – Carnagarve Ringfort
Medieval Site – Carrickmaquigley Castle – unclassified
Medieval Site – Eleven Ballyboes – Castle, Bawn
Medieval Site – Glebe (Castlecary ED) Ringfort
Medieval Site – Glencrow Bridge Medieval Site – Stroove Megalithic Tomb – unclassified
Medieval Site – Stroove Rock-Cut Souterrain
Medieval Site – Tullynavinn Promontory Fort (inland)
Medieval Site – Whitecastle Castle & House
Medieval Site – Whitecastle Ringfort Military Structures – Stroove Signal Towers
Post Medieval Site – Carrowtrasna Burial Ground
Post Medieval Site – Tullynavinn Sweathouse
Prehistoric Site – Ballyargus Standing Stone
Prehistoric Site – Cabry Wedge Tomb & Standing Stones
Prehistoric Site – Eleven Ballyboes Middens
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Appendix 6
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The Foyle Source Book – a directory summarising the audit.
Workshops on the development of heritage audits
(Landscape Circle model) – held in the Limavady, Strabane and Derry City Council districts.
Local heritage audits
Some 220 people from Bready, Donagheady, Magilligan, Strathfoyle and Aghnaloo helped compile these, which fed into the final work.
Foyle Landscape Heritage Trail Map
Based on the audit. Heritage Map Document
Living History Heritage days
Watermills Day, Strabane – 15 September 2012
Foyle Heritage Boat Cruise – 20 October 2012
Dunnalong Dig
Conservation workshops
– Hedge laying, Bready; in partnership with the Loughs Agency
– Gates, Slaps and Pillars, Limavady
Lectures and talks
Were delivered by the project officer at Strabane, Limavady, Derry, Park, Strathfoyle, Dunamanagh, Magilligan and Park.
Exhibition
On the Foyle Landscape Project – Clipper event, July 2012
Closure event
Loughs Agency, 12 April 2013.
Funders
