Marksoftime.com Brackfield Bawn, built by the Skinners Company of London from 1611 as part of the Ulster plantation.

Marksoftime.com Coleraine 17. The key remnant of the Ulster Plantation in Coleraine is its town plan. Built by the Honourable the Irish Society, its focus is a market square not a church or castle. This is a settlement of merchants from the City of London.

Coleraine18. The Town Wall. marksoftime.com Only one remnant remains above ground of the town walls of Coleraine. This is the steeply sloping earthen rampart between St Patrick's Church and Anderson Park. This part of the wall was always made of earth.

Marksoftime.com. Salterstown Iron Foundry operational from 1611 to 1654. A remnant of the early years of the Plantation of Ulster when local forests provided a ready supply of charcoal to smelt iron. After 1654 these forests were largely gone.

Marksoftime.com. Hazlett House one of the earliest surviving houses I the former Coleraine Council Area. 1690.

Marksoftime.com This ruin in Brockaghboy near Garvagh may be the remains of a house abandoned in 1718 Presbyterian migration to the New World

Marksoftime.com Cromore House near Portstewart. Central section mid Eighteenth century. Bays and side pavilions from 1834.

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Marksoftime.com The Lions Gate, Downhill. Constructed 1780. An elegant entrance to a dramatic estate.

Marksoftime.com Coleraine 28. The Mussenden Temple. Dramatically located, the Mussenden Temple has a motto: ‘SAUVE MARI MAGNO TURBANTIBUS AEQUORA VENTIS’ – ‘Tis pleasant to watch from land the great struggling of others when winds whip up the waves on a mighty sea’.

marksoftime.com Coleraine Market Yard. Constructed in 1829 to the same classical rules as buildings constructed 70 years earlier. Elegant proportions reinforcing the character of an important space for commerce.

marksoftime.com Kilrea, redesigned and improved in the 1830's by the Mercers Company.

Marksoftime.com Coleraine 32. The work house on Mountsandel Road. originally designed for 700 extended during Famine to take another 60 with a fever hospital along side. Only the front block remains.

Marksoftime.com Coleraine 33. the Irish Society School Another institutional building in the gothic style is Coleraine's former Irish Society School. Constructed between 1867 and 1869  it is a picturesque jumble of pitched roofs, cupolas, turrets and tall chimneys.

marksoftime.com Coleraine 34. The Old Courthouse Built in 1852, it functioned as the town court for 133 years until its closure in 1985. On a commanding position at the top of Waterside Street looking down towards the Bann Bridge. Now converted to a bar and restaraunt.

Marksoftime.com Coleraine 34. The Town Hall Opened in 1859, the sandstone town hall is in an Italianate classical style taking pride of place in the centre of the Diamond. It reflects the confidence of the town at this point in its history.

Marksotime.com Coleraine 35. Portrush Railway Station. 1890, in a half-timbered Elizabethan style. This was not a mere transport hub but a place that reinforced and sold a dream of leisure time by the sea.

Marksoftime.com. Coleraine 37. St Patricks Church. On a site associated with the saint, St Patrick's was significantly rebuilt in the 1880's with an elegant gothic tower added.

Marksoftime.com Downhill Tunnels. Constructed between 1845 and 1852. These were among the first of the type on the island and were important engineering feats for the time.

marksoftime.com Portstewart Presbyterian Church 1904. An elegant Arts and Crafts and Art Nouveau influenced church.