Editing County Coleraine

{{Short description|Defunct administrative area in Ireland}}
{{Infobox Former Subdivision
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|native_name =
|conventional_long_name = County Coleraine
|subdivision = Former [[Counties of Ireland|County]]
|nation = [[Kingdom of Ireland|Ireland]]
|title_leader = Governor
|leader1 = [[Thomas Phillips (Irish adventurer)|Thomas Phillips]]
|year_leader1 = 1611
|capital = [[Coleraine]]
|today = [[Northern Ireland]]
|era = [[Tudor conquest of Ireland]]
|event_start = Established
|year_start = 1585
|event_end = Incorporated into County Londonderry
|year_end = 1613
|image_map = Ulster 1584.png
|image_map_caption = Map of [[Ulster]] in 1585
|p1 = O'Cahan
|s1= County Londonderry
|flag_s1= Lderry co arms.png
}}
{{Coord|55.132|-6.668|display=title|region:GB_scale:50000}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=March 2020}}
{{EngvarB|date=March 2020}}

'''County Coleraine''', called the '''County of Colerain''' in the earliest documents,<ref>Hill, George. ''The Fall of Irish Chiefs and Clans; The Conquest of Ireland''. Irish Roots Cafe, 2004. p.97</ref> was one of the [[counties of Ireland]] from 1585 to 1613. It was named after its intended [[county town]], [[Coleraine]]. It was later subsumed into [[County Londonderry]] along with a big part of the once larger [[County Tyrone]] and small territories from [[County Donegal]] and [[County Antrim]].

==Foundation and extent==
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Sir [[John Perrot]], the [[Lord Deputy of Ireland]], established County Coleraine between the [[River Bann|Rivers Bann]] and [[River Foyle|Foyle]] in 1585 during the reign of [[Elizabeth I of England|Elizabeth I]]. Sir John intended administering the new county from the town of [[Coleraine]]. In the event, the English authorities built the [[courthouse]] and jail for the new establishment at [[Desertmartin]] in the adjacent county of [[County Tyrone|Tyrone]]. [[Thomas Phillips (Irish adventurer)|Sir Thomas Phillips]] was appointed Governor of the County of Coleraine in 1611.

==Towards a new county==
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English control of the territory remained nominal until after the [[Nine Years' War (Ireland)|Nine Years' War]]. Following the [[Flight of the Earls]] (1607) and [[O'Doherty's Rebellion]] (1608), the lands the Irish aristocrats held were escheated to [[the Crown]]. In 1609 the territory was given to the [[City of London Corporation]] and its [[livery company|livery companies]], who received instructions to undertake its [[plantation of Ulster|plantation]].

The area for planting included:

* the entirety of County Coleraine
* the barony of [[Loughinsholin]] which comprised the then north of [[County Tyrone]] and the environs of Coleraine in [[County Antrim]], together called [[O'Cahan]]'s Country
* a small area of [[County Donegal]] around [[Lough Foyle]]

In 1613, this larger area became incorporated into the newly founded [[County Londonderry]], named after the [[Derry|titular new city]], although its [[county town]] was Coleraine.

==References==
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[[Category:History of County Londonderry]]
[[Category:History of County Tyrone]]
[[Category:History of County Donegal]]
[[Category:Coleraine]]
[[Category:States and territories established in 1585]]
[[Category:1613 disestablishments]]
[[Category:Former counties of Ireland]]


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