Historic Building Details

HB Ref No:
HB02/10/009 B

Address :
Gage Vault Tamlaght Finlagan Graveyard Clooney Road, Ballykelly, Limavady Co Londonderry BT49 9HS BT49 9HS

Townland:
Drummond

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Survey 2:
Record Only

Date of Listing:

Date of De-listing:

Current Use:
Mausoleum

Former Use
Mausoleum

Conservation Area:
No

Industrial Archaeology:
No

Vernacular:
No

Thatched:
No

Monument:
No

Derelict:
No

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OS Map No:
28/8

IG Ref:
C6329 2249

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Owner Category

Church - C of I

Exterior Description And Setting

In the graveyard there are many varied headstones and two mausolea. One of the latter the family vault of the Gage family sunk below the general ground level with steps leading down to its open doorway. (In the past fill had been added to the middle part of the graveyard).‘The mausoleum is a low rectangular building with gables at either end, a Gothic doorway and buttresses. Each gable is crowned by a crocketed finial at its apex’ J S Curl.Note: For information of parish church see (HB02/10/009A).

Architects

Not Known

Historical Information

References: H Gough, Tamlaght Finlagan an Historic Church 1995 J Scurl, The Londonderry Plantation 1609 - 1914 D Girvan, The Buildings of North Derry UAHS

Criteria for Listing

Architectural Interest

Not listed

Historic Interest

Not listed

Evaluation

A mausoleum of a notable local family.

General Comments

Date of Survey

06 October 1997