Historic Buildings Record · Northern Ireland
Finglen Lodge
Finglen, Causeway Coast and Glens, Northern Ireland
The record
- Designation
- Record only (not listed)
- Grade
- Record Only
- Type
- House
- Date of construction
- 1880 - 1899
- Address
- Finglen Lodge, Glenedra Road, Feeny, Co Londonderry
- Townland
- Finglen
- Council
- Causeway Coast and Glens
- Country
- Northern Ireland
- Coordinates
- 54.86477, -6.96884
- Date of survey
- 26 July 2000
- HB reference
- HB02/05/034
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1869 "Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
The Department's description
Exterior description and setting
A long single storey pair of dwellings.
A former hunting lodge/s with barn in line to W end 7 bays long. Each lodge has a central square headed door with 8 pane metal window on each side. Barn has single door. Walls harled, cast iron half round guttering and slates a mixture of natural and asbestos. There are 4 chimney stacks. To the rear is a continuous lean-to. All openings boarded up.
Historical information
Finglen townland was in the proprietorship of Stewart Bruce in the 1st half of the 19th cent. The Stevenson’s of Knockan leased the land for shooting and built the lodges which are not shown on the 1830 O.S. Map nor the Rev of 1856. Are shown on the 1905 Rev. For a period the lodges were occupied by tenants.
References
Primary Sources
1. O.S. Map 1830 Londonderry sh. 30.
2. O.S. Map 1830 Rev. 1856 Londonderry sh. 30.
3. O.S. Map 1830 Rev. 1905 Londonderry sh. 30.
4. O.S. Memoirs of Ireland, Parishes of Co Londonderry X, 1833-34, 1858
Ed by Angelique Day and Patrick McWilliams Q.U.B. p. 118
5. Stevenson family.
Criteria for listing: architectural interest
Not listed
Criteria for listing: historic interest
Not listed
Evaluation
A pair of late 19th cent. hunting lodges or cottages of little architectural merit but enjoying a pleasant setting in Finglen.
Nearby in the register
- 154 Glenedra RoadHouseunder 1 mi
- Aughlish HouseHouseunder 1 mi
- Aughlish BridgeBridge1 mi
- Water pumpPump1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.