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Macosquin is a post-medieval plantation village site situated near Coleraine in Northern Ireland. The settlement comprises the remains of a merchant tailors' building complex, a house, a bawn—a defensive enclosure typical of early modern Irish plantations—and a mill. These structures represent the organised colonial enterprise established during the Ulster Plantation period, when English and Scottish settlers were granted land to develop agricultural and commercial settlements across the province.
The site rests upon Palaeogene extrusive rocks, primarily mafic lavas and tuffs formed during extensive volcanic activity in the early Tertiary period. This volcanic bedrock, exposed across parts of northern Antrim, would have presented both challenges and resources to the plantation settlers who worked the land. The underlying geology influenced the location's agricultural potential and the building materials available for the settlement's construction.
Macosquin is protected by the Historic Environment Division of the Department for Communities under statutory record 11633. The surviving earthworks and structures preserve evidence of early modern colonial settlement patterns, including the commercial and defensive infrastructure characteristic of organized plantation villages in Ulster during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.
Macosquin, merchant taylors' buildings. plantation village site with mill, house & bawn is a scheduled monument protected by Department for Communities NI under reference 11633. View the official record →
Macosquin is a post-medieval plantation village site situated near Coleraine in Northern Ireland. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by DfC Northern Ireland (NISMR) under reference 11633.
Macosquin, merchant taylors' buildings. plantation village site with mill, house & bawn 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.
Macosquin, merchant taylors' buildings. plantation village site with mill, house & bawn 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 11633.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Piper's hill. long mound (0.8 km), Counterscarp rath (3 km), Sweat house (4.8 km).
This page is just one thread. A full Aubrey report pulls together 14 strands of Macosquin, merchant taylors' buildings. plantation village site with mill, house & bawn'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.
Macosquin, merchant taylors' buildings. plantation village site with mill, house & bawn stands on Unnamed Extrusive Rocks, Palaeogene, bedrock that formed in the Paleogene. The rock here is mafic lava and mafic tuff.