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Derry's Walls EHOD 2024

Shipquay Street, Derry~Londonderry, County Londonderry, BT48 6DH
Derry's Walls EHOD 2024

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Derry~Londonderry has the most complete circuit of historic walls of any town or city in Ireland: they stand up to 8 metres (26 feet) high and measure almost 1.6km (one mile) in circumference.

The walls were constructed between 1613 and 1618 to protect the English and Scots settlers of the new town that was established here as part ofthe Plantation of Ulster. King James Iordered this colonisation with loyal, Protestant subjects in order to bring the rebellious Gaelic region firmly under the control of the English crown in 1611.

The Honourable The Irish Society was founded to take charge of the plantation, and finance was obtained from the City of London to build the walls. The new City of Londonderry was laid out as the defensive wallswere being constructed. Still seentoday, the street pattern was regular, with four main streets crossing at acentral square, later called 'The Diamond', leading straight to the fourgates in the walls. In 1689 the Catholic King James II and his supporters(Jacobites) laid siege to the city for 105 days, as part of his campaign tore claim the English throne from the Protestant King William III. Thirteen apprentices famously shut the city gates against the advancing Jacobite troops and despite fierce fighting over the weeks, the city successfully withstood the attack.

The walls are still owned by The Honourable The Irish Society, although they are now managed and conserved by the Department for Communities' Historic Environment Division.

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