Limavady Community Archive
20th March 2019
Join the Limavady Workhouse Archive We would like you to share your stories, memories or photographs with us and become part of the Northern Ireland Community […]
20th March 2019
The most renowned resident of Limavady Workhouse was Blind Jimmy McCurry, also known as ‘The Blind Fiddler from Myroe’. Born in 1830, Jimmy often played his […]
20th March 2019
Newtownlimavady Workhouse opened on 15th March 1842 and admitted its first inmate on the same day. Workhouses were built all over Ireland in response to the […]
20th March 2019
Join The Largy Archive We would like you to share your stories, memories or photographs with us and become part of the Northern Ireland Community Archive. […]
20th March 2019
Ritter’s Generator This is the only surviving example in Northern Ireland of a hydro-electric power station. The station was built in 1896 by John Ritter, who […]
20th March 2019
Leargaidh – ‘the side or the slope of the hill’ Now predominantly a farming community, Largy was a thriving centre for linen production. There was a […]
20th March 2019
The Gelvin Townlands Project was carried out by members of Gelvin Community Association History Group, who set out to explore the heritage of the area, and the […]
20th March 2019
Origins A reunion of former pupils of Gelvin (Galvin) school was held on a very wet day in July 1997 with around ninety former pupils in […]
20th March 2019
Gelvin (from the original Irish Geall-Bhinn meaning bright mountain peak) was an electoral area in the district of Limavady set up by the Poor Law of […]
20th March 2019
This site exists to catalogue the local history undertaken by the Gelvin Historical Society. We hope that by exploring our site, you will learn more about […]
20th March 2019
We would like you to share your stories, memories or photographs with us and become part of the Northern Ireland Community Archive. Very soon we will […]
20th March 2019
The Port of Drumsurn Despite Drumsurn’s distance from the shore, at one time from one to four members of every family went to sea with the […]