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Agivey is a post-medieval settlement comprising a bawn, ironmongers' buildings, and plantation village site in the townland of Agivey near Coleraine, County Londonderry. The monument represents a phase of early modern colonisation and industrial development in Ulster, when English and Scottish settlers established fortified residences alongside craft production and milling operations. The bawn, a defensive stone enclosure typical of Irish plantation architecture, would have protected the main dwelling and associated structures from the unsettled conditions of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.
The settlement sits on Lough Neagh Clays Group bedrock, clay and lignite deposits laid down in the Oligocene period, which would have provided readily available material for construction and supported mixed agricultural use. The presence of ironmongers' buildings indicates specialised metalworking activity, suggesting the settlement functioned as both a fortified residence and a productive economic centre serving the wider region.
The site is protected as a scheduled historic monument by the Historic Environment Division of the Department for Communities under reference 11825, recognising its importance in understanding plantation settlement patterns and early modern settlement strategy in Ulster during a formative period of English colonial expansion.
Agivey, agivey bawn, ironmongers' buildings. plantation village site, house, bawn & mill is a scheduled monument protected by Department for Communities NI under reference 11825. View the official record →
Agivey is a post-medieval settlement comprising a bawn, ironmongers' buildings, and plantation village site in the townland of Agivey near Coleraine, County Londonderry. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by DfC Northern Ireland (NISMR) under reference 11825.
Agivey, agivey bawn, ironmongers' buildings. plantation village site, house, bawn & mill dates from the post-med period, and is classified as a settlement. It is one of over 32,000 scheduled monuments protected across the UK.
Agivey, agivey bawn, ironmongers' buildings. plantation village site, house, bawn & mill is a Scheduled Ancient Monument, legally protected by DfC Northern Ireland (NISMR) — the body responsible for designating and safeguarding heritage sites in Ni. The official designation reference is 11825.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Chapel of aghadowey, agivey church, agivey chapel. church, graveyard hole-stone & font (0.7 km), Raised rath (or motte?) (1.8 km), Barrow (2.4 km).
This page is just one thread. A full Aubrey report pulls together 14 strands of Agivey, agivey bawn, ironmongers' buildings. plantation village site, house, bawn & mill's history, each drawn from the record and mapped to the exact spot:
Every location is different. Not every section appears for every place, only what the historical record actually holds turns up in a report.
Agivey, agivey bawn, ironmongers' buildings. plantation village site, house, bawn & mill stands on Lough Neagh Clays Group, bedrock that formed in the Oligocene. The rock here is clay and lignite.