DERRYLIN covers 307.8 km² in Northern Ireland. With 111 historic sites and 8 scheduled monuments on record, the ward sits at the 84th percentile across all 462 NI wards for combined archaeological heritage. It also records 35 listed buildings (HED Historic Buildings Record), the 65th percentile for listed-building density across NI wards. Per 1,000 residents, this works out at 55.1 recorded sites — the 92nd percentile across NI wards (a measure of heritage density relative to current population). Dated archaeological evidence runs from the Mesolithic through to the Modern period, spanning 7 archaeological periods, placing the ward in the 79th percentile NI-wide for chronological depth.
Heritage at a glance
Percentile rankings throughout this profile compare each ward only against the other 461 Northern Ireland wards.
Population context
The recorded heritage of DERRYLIN
Of the 111 historic sites recorded, the most common are Burnt Mound (30, 27% of historic sites), Rath (18), and Burnt Mound / Fulacht Fiadh (6). For Burnt Mounds, this is the 63rd percentile among NI wards that record this type. For Raths, this is the 84th percentile across NI wards that record this type. Across the ward's 307.8 km², this gives a recorded density of 0.50 sites per km² (all heritage types combined). Scheduled monuments are distributed across approximately 0.10° of latitude and 0.12° of longitude within the ward, indicating dispersed rather than clustered placement.
Most common monument types
| Type | Count | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Burnt Mound | 30 | — |
| Rath | 18 | — |
| Burnt Mound / Fulacht Fiadh | 6 | — |
Chronological distribution
Terrain and environment
Mean elevation of 84m sits around the NI median (64th percentile), but the ward reaches 384m at its highest point — a vertical span of more than 300m within its boundary, indicating significant topographic diversity. Mean slope is 4.1° (50th percentile across NI), giving moderately undulating terrain. The Topographic Wetness Index of 10.6 (59th NI percentile) indicates moderate drainage, balanced between upland shedding and lowland accumulation. The land-cover mosaic combines improved grassland (76%), woodland (13%), and open water (9%), giving a mixed agricultural and semi-natural landscape.
Terrain measurements
Where this ward sits in NI
Geology and preservation
The dominant bedrock formed during the Palaeozoic era (Carboniferous period). Ancient sedimentary or metamorphic rock dating to before the age of dinosaurs; the resulting landscape has been long-stable enough to host every period of human activity. Bedrock composition is moderately varied (complexity index 0.55), with two or three geological units present within the ward boundary.
Scheduled monuments in DERRYLIN
Scheduled monuments are sites legally protected under the Historic Monuments and Archaeological Objects (Northern Ireland) Order 1995, designated by the Historic Environment Division (HED).
| Monument | Type | Period |
|---|---|---|
| Rath | Rath | Early Medieval |
| Dual Court Grave | Dual Court Grave | Unknown |
| Cashel | Cashel | Early Medieval |
| Aghalane Castle | Aghalane Castle | Unknown |
| Rath | Rath | Early Medieval |
| Court tomb: Giant's Grave | Court Tomb: Giant'S Grave | Neolithic |
| Court tomb | Court Tomb | Neolithic |
| 17th-century fortified house | 17Th-Century Fortified House | Unknown |
Recorded historic sites
| Name | Period | Type |
|---|---|---|
| A.P. SITE – circular enclosure | Iron Age | Unknown |
| BATTLE SITE, 1379 (unlocated) | Medieval | Unknown |
| BATTLE SITE, 1689 | Post-Medieval | Unknown |
| BURNT MOUND | Mesolithic | Agriculture |
| BURNT MOUND | Mesolithic | Agriculture |
| BURNT MOUND | Mesolithic | Agriculture |
| BURNT MOUND | Mesolithic | Agriculture |
| BURNT MOUND | Mesolithic | Agriculture |
| BURNT MOUND | Mesolithic | Agriculture |
| BURNT MOUND | Early Medieval | Agriculture |
Listed buildings in DERRYLIN
| Address / Name | Grade | Period |
|---|---|---|
| GARVARY LODGE DERRYLIN Enniskillen CO.FERMANAGH | B1 | — |
| WEST LODGE CROM CASTLE NEWTOWNBUTLER Enniskillen CO.FERMANAGH | B | — |
| The School House Crom Castle Newtownbutler Enniskillen | B1 | — |
| 81 Mount Prospect Road Dresternan Derrylin Enniskillen Co. Fermanagh BT92 9FH | B1 | 1840 – 1859 |
| HOLY TRINITY C OF I PARISH CHURCH CROM DERRYLIN Enniskillen CO.FERMANAGH | B+ | — |
| THE ALMS HOUSE CROM CASTLE Estate NEWTOWNBUTLER Enniskillen CO.FERMANAGH | B | — |
| GROVE COTTAGE 22 BALLYCONNELL ROAD CARROWCARLAN DERRYLIN Enniskillen CO.FERMANAGH | B1 | — |
| Cottage at Corry Townland Teemore Derrylin Co. Fermanagh BT92 9ES | A | 1600 – 1649 |
| KINAWLEY PARISH CHURCH (COFI) DERRYLIN Enniskillen CO.FERMANAGH | B | — |
| ST. MARY'S RC CHURCH TEEMORE DERRYLIN Enniskillen CO.FERMANAGH | B | — |
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About this profile
What is a ward?
A ward is the smallest electoral and statistical geography used by the Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency (NISRA). The boundaries used here are the 2014 NISRA / OSNI Wards (462 across Northern Ireland), each typically covering 1-700 km² and a population of a few thousand. Wards do not align with parishes, townlands, or any historic administrative unit — they are a modern statistical convenience, used here only as a fixed spatial frame within which to summarise heritage records.
What counts as a site?
Three distinct heritage record types are reported separately, not combined: (1) Historic Sites — entries in the Northern Ireland Sites and Monuments Record (NISMR), the inventory of recorded archaeological sites and findspots, dated from prehistoric to early-modern; (2) Scheduled Monuments — sites legally protected under the Historic Monuments and Archaeological Objects (NI) Order 1995 and maintained by the Historic Environment Division (HED); (3) Listed Buildings — buildings of architectural or historic interest protected under the Planning Act (NI) 2011 and graded A, B+, B1, B2, or Record-Only by HED. A site appearing in more than one register is counted in each register independently.
Editorial principles
These ward profiles describe evidence, not history. They report what is recorded, not what occurred. Where the data is ambiguous, we say so. We do not infer historical processes — population movements, settlement expansion, periods of decline — from patterns in the record. Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence: in Northern Ireland, where antiquarian survey was uneven and modern excavation is geographically biased, a gap in the record almost always reflects the limits of recording rather than a genuine historical absence. We mark such gaps explicitly where they appear in the data.
Limits of coverage and known caveats
Several caveats apply to every ward profile: (1) NISMR coverage is uneven across NI — some areas (notably parts of the south-east and the Belfast urban fringe) have been more intensively surveyed than others, so a low recorded site count does not reliably indicate a low past density of activity; (2) period attributions in NISMR are often 'Unknown', and chronological breakdowns reported here reflect only the dated subset; (3) placename classification depends on the Irish-language form (name_ga), which is recorded for approximately 50% of NI placenames in the combined sources, so ecclesiastical and pre-Christian counts may be understated where anglicised forms remain unparsed; (4) terrain percentile ranks compare each ward only to the other 461 NI wards; they are not absolute thresholds. For absence-dominant land cover categories (wetland, water, cropland), percentile ranks are suppressed below 1% raw value, since the ranking of zero-value wards is not meaningful.
Data sources (11)
- Northern Ireland Sites and Monuments Record (NISMR) https://www.communities-ni.gov.uk/articles/nismr-public-mapviewer
- HED Scheduled Monuments Dataset https://www.opendatani.gov.uk/@historic-environment-division/scheduled-monuments-northern-ireland
- HED Historic Buildings Record https://www.communities-ni.gov.uk/topics/historic-environment/listed-buildings
- OSNI OS Open Names (Northern Ireland) https://www.opendatani.gov.uk/@ordnance-survey-of-northern-ireland/osni-open-data—50k-gazetteer
- Logainm — Placenames Database of Ireland https://www.logainm.ie/
- GeoNames https://www.geonames.org/
- Census 2021 (Northern Ireland) https://www.nisra.gov.uk/statistics/2021-census
- OSNI Open Data — Largescale Boundaries https://www.opendatani.gov.uk/@ordnance-survey-of-northern-ireland/osni-open-data-largescale-boundaries-wards-2012
- Copernicus GLO-30 DEM https://spacedata.copernicus.eu/collections/copernicus-digital-elevation-model
- ESA WorldCover https://esa-worldcover.org/
- GSNI 1:250,000 Geology https://www.bgs.ac.uk/geological-data/maps/