Was Googling for a map of the northern counties and saw this was the first photo that was shown on the first page of Google. Says it was also once used on Wikipedia but when I search through the whole article I saw that it must've been deleted. But with the total exclusion of Derry being absored by Tyrone and the showing of Coleraine as a county is too specifically wrong to just be a mistake, could've this diagram been used to show something else that I can't think of?

by Declan_The_Artist

10 comments

  1. These are the old county borders from the late 1500s created after the 9 Years’ War. 

  2. I’m 46 years old and never knew this, it’s true, every day is a schoolday

  3. Just click on it to read the article

    “1584 – General boundaries of the counties of Ulster created by the Lord Deputy of Ireland Sir John Perrott.”

  5. Derry finally free , I hope she’s happy, wherever she is.

  6. Because anyone can put anything on Wiki Spoof & Waffle.

  7. The geographic boundaries of the county coleraine make more sense, the two sides of the Sperrins are quite different with south Derry being more like Tyrone with more natural road connections.

  9. Yeah it’s weird that county Derry has never technically existed in name. The city was Derry before the London was added, but that was in Co. Coleraine. So even though the county lines were redrawn, and the South calls the county Derry, it has never officially been Co. Derry. Hope this changes soon

  10. Should go back to calling it County Coleraine. Sick of the Derry/Londonderry shite

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