Qualla: County Londonderry https://qualla.com/county-londonderry en-us © 2026 Bendyline Wed, 08 Jul 2026 02:40:13 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_res/siteimages/rsslogo.png Qualla: County Londonderry https://qualla.com/county-londonderry County Londonderry: Introduction https://qualla.com/county-londonderry/ The county has two names, and the choice between them is rarely casual. To call it County Derry is to lean toward the older word - daire in Old Irish, doire in Modern Irish, both meaning oak-grove. To call it County Londonderry is to acknowledge a charter signed by James I on 2 March 1613, when the City of London's Livery Companies were granted the land in exchange for settling and defending it. The dispute is older than the United States, and locals still navigate it with the same tact people elsewhere use for politics or religion. Officially, this corner of Northern Ireland is 2,118 square kilometres of farmland, basalt cliffs, and ancient woodland along the north-west shore of Lough Neagh. About 252,000 people live here. The county flower is the purple saxifrage.

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