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December 16th, 2018

16/12/2018

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This is a copy of the first map of Limavady from 1622. It was a new Ulster Plantation settlement replacing the former town a mile away around the old O’Cahan Castle within what is now the Roe Valley Country Park.  Originally known as Newtown Limavady, the settlement had a cruciform layout with a market cross at the centre and was enclosed on two sides, as today, by the River Roe.  The building nearest the river appears to have a projecting sign which has been taken by most comentators to be the representation of an Inn..
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