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Next to the St Columb's Cathedral: www.geograph.ie/photo/3065294 Photo Sphere - Mai 2016: goo.gl/maps/GMtxMSo8U642

Also known as 'Heroes Mound'. An article in the Londonderry Sentinel, 20 January 2011 suggests that the mound was erected in 1890 with the bones of a mass grave, originating from the siege of 1688/89. www.londonderrysentinel.co.uk/news/londonderry-news/folkl...

More details here, talking about the Siege Heroes' Mound being an 1860s temporary resting place for the remains ... via Tailer's Family - journeying!

I thought that this would be a winner when I first saw it but I had painting to do and only got back to it now! In the Londonderrysentinel.co.uk I found the following:- "A mass grave exists in Society Street and the Free School area and extends out to St Columb's Cathedral, and there may be evidence for that because when they were excavating Bishop Street for the new buildings that were built, the Nicholson family led a party to collect as many bones as they could and these bones were re-interred at the east window of St Columb's Cathedral." He went on to say that when Dean Smiley was building the Chancel at the Cathedral in the 1890s the site containing the bones was excavated, and the bones and spoil around them were placed into three carts. He said the intention at the time was that the contents of the carts were to be taken down to the Water Bastion where works were ongoing to try and straighten the bend in the river, but there was an outcry from the people of the Fountain. "The soil and the bones from the Cathedral were taken to 'the strands' along the Foyle River and were taken down to the bays, and they were going to use them to fill in the river. "The people of the Fountain stopped the carts and made them go back to the graveyard. and they took them to what is now the 'Heroes Mound'. That mound is managed by the Apprentice Boys Association and if you look at the obelisk on it you will see two Coats of Arms. One is the City Coat of Arms and the other is the Nicholson Family Coat of Arms, and the family's Coat of Arms was put on the obelisk in recognition of their efforts to re-inter the bones."

what happened there? Google doesn't have much on the event.

13:16 or 13:17 ? ... That is the question!

What happened next ? At 13:20, a few minutes later - oddly enough, someone has painted in an extra clock to the left tower. catalogue.nli.ie/Record/vtls000328272

... which might be a clue as to how new the 1887? building is. No main clock yet.

Well I never! These have painted in clocks too - catalogue.nli.ie/Record/vtls000334873 catalogue.nli.ie/Record/vtls000334876 catalogue.nli.ie/Record/vtls000328274

beachcomber australia Brilliant, I bet photoshopping was invented before the first 1,000 photos were taken.

That's the view up Bow Street and Market square to the courthouse.

Here-ish (well, back a bit, but streetview can't get there): www.google.ie/maps/@54.511057,-6.044733,3a,75y,85.44h,79....

It's actually the Market House and Assembly Rooms, not the courthouse. In my defence, it's about 30 years since I've been there and I didn't pay much attention to which building was what back then.

Aside from the view not being blocked by a load of random stuff, It looks in some respects (e.g. gradient) more like the view up bridge street. I wonder if there was ever an unobstructed view of the markethouse from there. Mind you, that would put the cathederal in the wrong place.

It's now the Irish Linen Centre and Lisburn Museum.