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Walworth plantation village is a post-medieval settlement site located near Ballekelle in the parish of Limavady, County Londonderry, Northern Ireland. The village represents one of the planned settlements established during the Ulster Plantation of the early seventeenth century, when English and Scottish settlers were granted lands and encouraged to develop organized communities across the province. The site lies on bedrock of the Roe Valley Group, comprising sandstone, conglomerate and subordinate argillaceous rocks of Tournaisian age, which would have influenced both construction materials and drainage patterns available to the settlers.
The plantation village demonstrates the characteristic layout of such settlements, where colonists established dwellings, workshops and agricultural facilities according to prescribed patterns intended to consolidate English control and Protestant settlement in Ulster. The landscape surrounding Walworth reflects the legacy of this seventeenth-century reorganization, with field patterns and settlement distribution still bearing traces of the original plantation design.
The site is protected as a monument of historic importance by the Historic Environment Division of the Department for Communities, recognition which reflects its significance as evidence of early modern colonial settlement strategies and social organization in Ireland. The archaeological remains preserve important information about daily life, building practices and economic activity during this transformative period in Ulster's history.
Walworth plantation village, ballekelle. plantation village site is a scheduled monument protected by Department for Communities NI under reference 11477. View the official record →
Walworth plantation village is a post-medieval settlement site located near Ballekelle in the parish of Limavady, County Londonderry, Northern Ireland. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by DfC Northern Ireland (NISMR) under reference 11477.
Walworth plantation village, ballekelle. plantation village site 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.
Walworth plantation village, ballekelle. plantation village 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 11477.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Walworth old church. plantation church & graveyard on earlier site (0.2 km), Rough fort. counterscarp rath (3.6 km), Rath (4.4 km).
This page is just one thread. A full Aubrey report pulls together 14 strands of Walworth plantation village, ballekelle. plantation village 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 plantation village, ballekelle. plantation village site stands on Roe Valley Group, bedrock that formed in the Tournaisian. The rock here is sandstone, conglomerate and [subordinate] argillaceous rocks.