Derry takes its name from Doire, ‘oak grove’, after the monastery St Colmcille founded here in the sixth century on a wooded hill above the River Foyle.
Contae Dhoire · The Maiden City · Ulster
Derry takes its name from Doire, ‘oak grove’, after the monastery St Colmcille founded here in the sixth century on a wooded hill above the River Foyle.
This is the Maiden City, whose seventeenth-century walls have never been breached — famed for the 105-day Siege of 1689, and for a name still spoken with pride, and passion, on both sides of a divided city.
