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We visited the Town Hall 9 years ago (golly!). A previous visit by Mr French?

Ooo! There is a Royal plate at 16:21, five minutes earlier. Spot the differences - L_ROY_01007 - catalogue.nli.ie/Record/vtls000041886

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Mr French then carted his trusty tripod across the bridge and up the hill behind for this view at 17:24 (thanks megazoom) - catalogue.nli.ie/Record/vtls000321580 (see the blind in Kennedy's first floor window in the same position)

There is another photo from up there. A few years later, the ornamental trees have grown and there is a line of telegraph/telephone poles, not seen in today's view -
catalogue.nli.ie/Record/vtls000321579 (at 16:25 different day)
catalogue.nli.ie/Record/vtls000338193 (reverse view with line of poles, ie later)

"Roaring Meg was also the name of a cannon used during the Siege of Derry in 1689. This one is preserved on Derry's city walls but is currently undergoing restoration." from - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roaring_Meg_(cannon)

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From the Derry Journal I linked to above: Roaring Meg, named because of its ferocious sound in battle, was used during the Siege of Derry. One account of the famous cannon from the time of the Siege in the Seventeenth Century said: "The noise of its discharge was more terrifying than the contents of the charge to the enemy." The barrel of the cannon bears the inscription 'Fishmongers London 1642,' marking the fact that the cannon was one of 24 cannon sent to the Derry by the City of London and the London Companies after the 1641 siege.

The Morning Chronicle (London), Thursday, December 28, 1826, (quoting the Londonderry Journal) on the occasion of the unveiling of a stone marking the 138th anniversary of the shutting of the gates.

In the meantime the various bodies of the 'Prentice boys, attended by multitudes who sympathised with their feelings of enthusiastic gratitude, marched, with the Londonderry Legions, to the several gates, over which, respectively, they fired three volleys, then to King William's-square, where they fired thrice. Roaring Meg performed her obstreperous duty on the occasion, unimpaired by age, and in defiance of the envious tooth of Time, which corrodes the most perdurable of metals and "steals our years away".

From the Irish Independent, 3 August 1906:

An eighteen-pounder cannon used with destructive effect during the siege of Derry City (1688-9) by the defenders against the assailment of King James’s troops. This piece of ordnance, which is eleven feet long, was presented to the city by the Fishmongers’ Company, London, whose name and title are lettered in the casting on the breech, with the date, 1642. The Apprentice Boys used the old gun for ceremonial firing on Celebration Days (12th August and 18th December in each year). The gun got the name “Roaring Meg” from the extreme loudness of her report. When fired within the city the breakage of glass (then costly) was considerable, and this was especially resented by Catholic residents. In 1832 “Meg” ceased to roar. On the morning of a Celebration in that year it was discovered the gun was spiked, and the body of a tailor’s goose (iron) wedged into her bore. The Dublin Exhibition Executive seek to get “”Roaring Meg” on loan during the Exposition.

Current Streetview. OSI 6". According to wikipedia, it was " housing the US Army during World War II, and later being used as a dance hall during the 1950s and 1960s".

The current castle dates from 1839 according to the DIA but the interior of it was not finished as the owner Robert Ogilby died. "His successors took no interest in the castle and the partially-complete castle was neglected before it had even been finished." It was almost demolished by Limavady Council but on public outcry was instead renovated.

The ruins of the castle of Dungiven stand at the top of the street and are not very striking in themselves although standing on a slope they command some fine views in the valley This place was built in the time of James I with a fosse and mounds in front and flanked by two round towers The interior courts appear to have been well fortified but the work of ruin is so complete as to leave little but guesses to the non antiquarian. A description of the earlier castle owned by Edward Cary from Ireland Picturesque and Romantic, Volume 2 (1838) By Leitch Ritchie.

Sharon Corbet Sharon, it looks like everyone but the two of us are off for the Easter weekend. I don't have much to add other than a vague memory about Dungiven Castle being associated with the song "Danny Boy"

At the Plantation of Ulster, this part of County Derry in which Dungiven Castle was situated was granted to the Skinners' Company, and their grant from the Honourable the Irish Society was dated 1617. lordbelmontinnorthernireland.blogspot.ie/2013/09/dungiven... In the reign of Henry II (1154-89) workers skilled in dressing skins were described as 'pelliparii', 'peleters', or skinners hence name of estate....."Manor of Pellipar and the Castle, town, and land of Dungiven" www.theskinnerscompany.org.uk/historical-timeline/