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Anti-aircraft operations room, dhp no.154 is a modern defensive structure built in Northern Ireland during the Second World War. Located on bedrock of the Roe Valley Group—Tournaisian sandstone, conglomerate and argillaceous rocks—the operations room exemplifies the evolving infrastructure required to coordinate air defence across the province. Such facilities formed the nerve centres of anti-aircraft command, housing the personnel, instruments and communications equipment necessary to detect, track and direct fire against enemy aircraft.
The operations room sits within a landscape shaped by its geological foundation of hard sandstone and conglomerate, characteristic of the Carboniferous formations underlying much of the north of Ireland. The specific siting at grid reference C 509 602 064 0 reflects the strategic considerations that determined where such critical installations were positioned during wartime.
Designated under Historic Environment Division reference 11961, the structure is now protected as a heritage asset of acknowledged significance. Anti-aircraft operations rooms document the intensive defensive preparations undertaken across Northern Ireland during the Second World War, and the technological and organisational systems developed to protect the civilian population and military installations from aerial attack.
Anti-aircraft operations room, dhp no.154 is a scheduled monument protected by Department for Communities NI under reference 11961. View the official record →
Anti-aircraft operations room, dhp no.154 is a modern defensive structure built in Northern Ireland during the Second World War. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by DfC Northern Ireland (NISMR) under reference 11961.
Anti-aircraft operations room, dhp no.154 dates from the modern period, and is classified as a anti-aircraft operations room. It is one of over 32,000 scheduled monuments protected across the UK.
Anti-aircraft operations room, dhp no.154 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 11961.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Eglinton, grocers' buildings. plantation village site (2 km), Church gable (2 km), Castle of anagh. tower-house (3.8 km).
This page is just one thread. A full Aubrey report pulls together 14 strands of Anti-aircraft operations room, dhp no.154's history, each drawn from the record and mapped to the exact spot:
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Anti-aircraft operations room, dhp no.154 stands on Roe Valley Group, bedrock that formed in the Tournaisian. The rock here is sandstone, conglomerate and [subordinate] argillaceous rocks.