At Killymoon Castle this afternoon for European Heritage Open Days. A fascinating place, designed by the Prince Regent’s architect John Nash. His first Picturesque Castle. Beautiful location in an undulating landscape, a fascinating and varied sequence of rooms inside.
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St Augustine’s is also open for EHOD this weekend. Tour on Saturday at 10.30 and Sunday at 12.30. A beautiful little church on a location which has had an ecclesiastical function for almost 1500 years www.discovernorthernireland.com/niea/ehod.aspx
It's European Heritage Open Days this weekend. Over 400 building and events. This is the entrance door of the Long Tower Church which is opened both days with tours at 2.00pm. Well worth a visit,
www.discovernorthernireland.com/niea/ehod.aspx Two unassuming buildings in opposite parts of the world. One in Altnagelvin Ward, Derry~Londonderry, the other in San Francisco. Both clearly of similar design. The reason is that both are located on former US naval bases and date from post World War II. Like the buildings of the British Empire before it, these buildings record the influence of the United States during the Cold War period. US Navcomsta in Derry was principally a signals base relaying information from the US to Europe in the period before satellite communication.
standing stone is located within the grounds of Altnagelvin Hospital. Erected in 1992, it is part of the Derry Donegal Landscape Sculpture by Marco Pogacnik a Slovenian sculptor. The idea is that it is like an acupuncture pin healing a landscape traumatised by later development. It is one of a number located on prominent hills across the region. Each has a different ‘cosmogramme’; representing the immediate area carved on their face. Their exact location was determined by ley lines.
Back on the Altnagelvin side of the river near the road to Belfast is another elegant house in the Georgian style. Strathmore house was constructed around 1860 and functioned as the Manse of the First Glendermott Presbyterian Church until just after the First World War. It is well proportioned and situated in a fine wooded setting with views out over the valley.
Hidden among the trees of the Glen however, are some structures dating from World War II, when this remote area, well away from potential targets, was used for storing the ammunition of American troops. |
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