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Extract from a Survey of 1622

Between August and October 1622, Sir Thomas Phillips and Richard Hadsor carried out a survey of the Londonderry settlements. Their report was illustrated with picture-maps drawn by the cartographer Thomas Raven. At Bellaghy their description runs:

Upon this Proporcon, (Standing on a high ground, about half a mile from Loughbegg and ye river of the Bann, and 18 mile from Coleraine) there is a Manner house of lyme and brick 60 foot long, 27 foot broad, 2 stories high, tyled, with a round flacnker, 30 foot broad 2 stories high, with a parapit and foot pace, leaded; and one house of brick opposite to the Former 54 foot long, 26 foot broad, one storie high with the like round Flancker; There is also a Brick Wall, 14 foot high coped with vent, and Crest, with a Rampier of earth 6 foor thick, faced with stone, which wall together with the said houses and Flanckers doe make a court, or Bawne, 100 foot square paved, which Comands the Towne adjoyning thereunto, called Vintners Towne, consisting of 15 Cagework houses, 5 whereof are 41 foot long, 21 foot broad, 2 stories high; 4 houses of 26 foot long, 18 foot broad, one storie and a halfe high; One house of 31 foot long, 17 foot broad, one storey, and a halfe high, and one smale house of 18 foot long, 12 foot broad, one storie high, boarded tyled, and shingled, whereof some are not yet fully finnished; Inhabited with Brittish and 4 smale thatched houses, and 10 Cabbons, Inhabited by poore Brittish people, with a Church newlie built, 65 foot long, 30 foot broad, 15 foot square, shingled, with a Churchyard, 120 foot square inclosed with Sawn Rayles, and Posts; There is also a good Mill house, and 2 Mills therein In which Mannor house the said Sir Baptist Jones, his wife and family inhabites.