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Springhill HouseSpringhill is a 17th-century plantation house in the townland of Ballindrum near Moneymore in County Londonderry. It has been the property of the National Trust since 1957. The home of the Conyngham family (later Lennox-Conyngham) since the Plantation, the house today contains a vitally important and almost complete collection of one family's occupation for three hundred years. In the Gun Room can be found one of the largest surviving 18th century wallpaper schemes surviving in the United Kingdom, along with a "long gun" dating to about 1680 which was presented to Alderman James Lenox after the Siege of Derry. The Library contains one of the most important collections of 17th and 18th century books in Ireland and is composed of around 3000 volumes, the oldest of which is a small Latin psalter of 1541. (Read more) |