Land Area: 798 sq. miles
Largest Town: Derry
Main Towns: Coleraine, Derry, Dungiven, Limavady,Maghera, Magherafelt, Portstewart.
Main Industries: Agriculture, computer services, dairy food processing, garment manufacturing, meat processing, oil distribution, retailing, service industries, tourism.
Antiquities
Chalk with bands of flints is a characteristic feature of the scenery of Derry and Londonderry, flint having been plentifully strewn over these and the adjoining counties, by the ice streams of the Glacial period. The most important remains of the settlements of Stone-Age man are the raised beaches at Lame, Whitepark Bay, Island Magee, Portrush, Portstewart, etc. As well as at these settlements, flint flakes and implements have been found nearly every- where along the shores of the River Bann ; several stations having produced implements and flakes in profusion. Many implements and flakes have been found at Mount Sandal, south of Coleraine, and at Kilrea : implements have also been found at Port- glenone, Gortgolc, Culbane, and at other places as far as Toome Bar where the Bann leaves Lough Neagh.
Chalk with bands of flints is a characteristic feature of the scenery of Derry and Londonderry, flint having been plentifully strewn over these and the adjoining counties, by the ice streams of the Glacial period. The most important remains of the settlements of Stone-Age man are the raised beaches at Lame, Whitepark Bay, Island Magee, Portrush, Portstewart, etc. As well as at these settlements, flint flakes and implements have been found nearly every- where along the shores of the River Bann ; several stations having produced implements and flakes in profusion. Many implements and flakes have been found at Mount Sandal, south of Coleraine, and at Kilrea : implements have also been found at Port- glenone, Gortgolc, Culbane, and at other places as far as Toome Bar where the Bann leaves Lough Neagh.
Derry (Holiday Homes, Derry, Ireland), one of the most historically rich counties in Ireland, has experienced a period of consecutive residency of a single culture for over 1500 years. In ancient times Derry (derived from the Gaelic word for Oak Grove, Daire) was a hallowed land to the Celtic people. The city of Derry was founded by St. Colmcille in 546.
In more recent history, Derry (Holiday Apartments, Derry, Ireland) has been a place of conflict when, starting in the 1600s, settlers from Scotland were moved into Northern Ireland as a result of the power vacuum that occured when the native Irish leaders of Ulster fled to continental Europe in what is known as the Flight of the Earls. At the time, Ulster had been the last region in Ireland to fall to the invading British forces.
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Brown Trout Hotel, Aghadowey, Londonderry, Derry |
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<>Downhill, Castlerock, Coleraine, County Derry, BT51 4SD, Northern Ireland |
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