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Walworth Old Church is a plantation-period ecclesiastical site located near Limavady in County Londonderry. The church and graveyard occupy ground underlain by the Roe Valley Group, a Tournaisian sandstone and conglomerate formation that shapes the local geology of this part of the Foyle valley. The site is designated as a place of uncertain earlier ecclesiastical use, suggesting occupation by religious community or worship activity predating the plantation-era structures that now define the monument.
The church and its associated graveyard represent the religious infrastructure of the seventeenth-century Ulster Plantation settlement. The placement of the plantation church on an earlier ecclesiastical site reflects the common practice of building Protestant places of worship on the foundations of medieval parishes, a process that reorganised the spiritual landscape across planted territories. Such reuse embodied both continuity and transformation in the religious geography of early modern Ulster.
Today Walworth Old Church survives as a physical record of the plantation period and the longer history of Christian worship in the Roe Valley. The site is protected under the Historic Environment Division's statutory designation 11461, ensuring its preservation as evidence of both the medieval and early modern phases of settlement and belief in this region of Northern Ireland.
Walworth old church. plantation church & graveyard on earlier site is a scheduled monument protected by Department for Communities NI under reference 11461. View the official record →
Walworth Old Church is a plantation-period ecclesiastical site located near Limavady in County Londonderry. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by DfC Northern Ireland (NISMR) under reference 11461.
Walworth old church. plantation church & graveyard on earlier site dates from the uncertain period, and is classified as a ecclesiastical site. It is one of over 32,000 scheduled monuments protected across the UK.
Walworth old church. plantation church & graveyard on earlier site 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 11461.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Walworth plantation village, ballekelle. plantation village site (0.2 km), Rough fort. counterscarp rath (3.6 km), Daisy hill, the mullagh, drumceatt. scarped mound (possible assembly site) (4.5 km).
This page is just one thread. A full Aubrey report pulls together 14 strands of Walworth old church. plantation church & graveyard on earlier site'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.
Walworth old church. plantation church & graveyard on earlier site stands on Roe Valley Group, bedrock that formed in the Tournaisian. The rock here is sandstone, conglomerate and [subordinate] argillaceous rocks.