A number of new archives including a new page from the Great Parchment Book courtesy of the London Metropolitan Archive will this week be installed at the Ulster Plantation Exhibition in Derry’s Guildhall.
One of the 17th century maps to be displayed in the Ulster Plantation Exhibition.
A changeover of pieces allowing for new items to be installed means the exhibition in the ground floor of the Guildhall will be closed to the public for two days this week – Tuesday and Wednesday 3 and 4 December.
The exhibition will reopen to the public on Thursday 5 December from 10.00am.
Bernadette Walsh, archivist with Derry City Council’s Heritage and Museum Service, said whilst she appreciated the inconvenience caused to the public, it was essential the Plantation exhibition closed for a short period in order to facilitate the secure transfer of the pieces.
The additions include a further page from the fascinating Great Parchment book, an important manuscript in the development of the early 17th century and the role of the Irish Society.
Another addition will be extracts from the “The Survey of Londonderry” by Charles Stewart.
Bernadette Walsh, archivist with Derry City Council’s Heritage and Museum Service, said 1814-1815 document details the survey and valuation made by Stewart himself, showing details such as reference number, former and present tenants, use of land, acreage, value, valuation, date of lease and years and lives granted.
She added: “One of the oldest items in the London Museum Archive collection to go on display, a page from a volume of deeds that details the farming and fishing leases, the page on display relates to a George Squire, in the seventeenth century.
“Early research and sustained relationships with the Irish Society allows us to exhibit a range of their items to add to the exhibition from maps and drawings to correspondence, accounts, legal deeds and minutes of meetings.”
A few unseen maps from the Derry City Council archive collection have also been selected to go on display, alongside facsimile copies of the early 17th century maps of the city.
Derry Mayor Cllr Martin Reilly said the additions presented a great opportunity to accrue new interest in the highly successful Plantation Exhibition, which has been viewed by the majority of the 210,000 visitors through the doors of multi-million pound regenerated Guildhall.
He added: “We are extremely pleased to be in a position to receive new archives which is enabled due to the continued and sustained relationship that the Heritage and Museum, Service maintains with the LMA, The Honorable The Irish Society.”
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