Derry Ireland

Derry, a county of Ireland, province of Ulster, 40 m. long and 31 broad, bounded W by Donegal, N by the ocean, S and SW by Tyrone, and E by Antrim, containing 511,688 English acres, divided into 31 parishes. It sends 4 members to parliament. 1/4 seems to be bleak mountains and glens, and 1/2 of the remainder is mountainous. Potatoes are the principal crop; and in some parts oats, barley, flax, and rye, and some wheat are cultivated. Chief rivers, the Foyle or Green river, the Bann or White river, the Faughan, and the Roe. The linen manufacture flourishes through every part of the county. Derry (Holiday Cottages, Derry, Ireland) is home to the Sperrin Mountains.

Posted on April 15th, 2008 under Genealogy. Tags: Anrtim, Census, Chief rivers, Chief Towns, church, county Derry, Donegal, emigrants, English, Eoghan's land, Genealogy Centre, Inishowen Peninsula, Ireland, London, Londonderry, natives, Records, Scottish, Sperrin Mountains, Tyrone, Ulster, Ulster Scots. Comments: 1

Posted on April 15th, 2008 under Accommodation. Tags: 14 Clooney Road, 32 Ardmore Road, Aghadowey, Beech Hill Country House Hotel, Brown Trout Hotel, Caw Roundabout, City Hotel Derry, Clooney Road, Derry, Donegal, Donegal Hills, Hastings Everglades Hotel, Limavady, Londonderry, Lough Foyle, Prehen Road Co. Derry, Queens Quay, Radisson SAS Roe Park Resort, River Foyle, Roe Park, Tower Hotel, Waterfoot Hotel and Country Club, Whitehorse Hotel. Comments: 2

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.

Posted on April 15th, 2008 under Antique. Tags: Bann, Co. Derry, Co. Down, Coleraine, Culbane, Derry, Dundrum Bay, flint flakes, Gortgolc, Ireland, Iron Age, Island Magee, Kilrea, Lame, Londonderry, Lough Neagh, Mount Sandal, Neolithic, ort- glenone, Portrush, Portstcwart, Portstewart, Pottery, River Bann, sandhills, Toome Bar, Whitepark Bay. Comments: 4

About 3 miles to the east of Derry (Self Catering, Derry, Ireland) is the small glen of Lincairn. This gorge is 100 ft. deep and about two-thirds of a mile long, and has a level bottom. This must have been an overflow channel begun at a time when the Faughan valley had 250 ft, of ice in its bed, thus obstructing the drainage in that direction. The curious steep-sided pools that are met with in the gravels and sands on the right bank of the Foyle Kettle-hole, two miles N.E. of Derry (Accommodation, Derry, Ireland) north of Derry, mark the places where lobes of ice became separated from the main body of the glacier. Sands and gravels were deposited over and around them, and afterwards when melting took place, these kettle holes, as they are called, were formed. At the close of the glacial period the land was higher than now, for we have, in addition to the geological evidence, that of the relict fauna and flora, for believing that a land connection with Norway remained after that with the Continent by way of France was broken. Then came a depression that allowed the sea to re-enter certain of the river valleys of the north. Carlingford Lough was thus invaded, and Belfast Lough extended farther to the west than now, and the estuarine clays on which the lower part of Belfast now stands were laid down. An old shore line can be traced from Belfast round the Derry and Derry (Holiday Apartments, Derry, Ireland) coasts, showing that at this time the sea stood some 25 ft. higher than it does to-day. Afterwards, an uplift occurred that brought the sea to its present position and exposed the stumps of ancient forest trees and the peat of formerly submerged bogs.

Posted on April 15th, 2008 under Geology. Tags: Belfast, Belfast Lough, Buncrana, Carlingford Lough, Carrigans, Carrigart, Derry, Faughan, Fincarn, Foyle, Foyle Kettle-hole, France, Inch island, Inishowen, Ireland, Lincairn, Londonderry, Lough Swilly, Loughs Foyle, Norway, Omagh, Swilly. Comments: None

Posted on April 15th, 2008 under Accommodation. Tags: 2 Coshquin, 4 Abbey Street, Abbey Bed And Breakfast, Arkle House, Ballarena Limavady, Ballycarton House, Derry, Londonderry, N. Ireland, Seacoast Road. Comments: None

Posted on April 15th, 2008 under Accommodation. Tags: 2 Belvedere Avenue, Castlerock, Coleraine, County Londonderry, Derry Farm Cottages, Donegal, Downhill Strand, Drumahoe, Gortree Road, Londonderry, Northern Ireland, Sea Road, Tara Lodge. Comments: 1

Posted on April 15th, 2008 under Holiday Home & Self Catering. Tags: 74 Gortree Road, Coastal, Cottage Derry, Derry Farm Cottages, Drumahoe, Londonderry, Rural, scenery. Comments: None