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Foreglen

village in County Londonderry, Northern Ireland

Architectural plans, a scale model, maps and brass measuring instruments
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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionNov 22, 2025
Entity authorityQ793536 ↗
Source-derived summary

Foreglen (Irish: An Forghleann, meaning 'The Outer Glenn') is a village in County Londonderry, Northern Ireland. Around 1900 it was known as Ballymoney (not to be confused with the town of Ballymoney in County Antrim).

Education

St Peter's and St Paul's Primary School.

Editorial summary

The public source identifies “Foreglen” as village in County Londonderry, Northern Ireland. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Foreglen, village and County.

Editorial reviewA strong orientation record where physical form, institutional use and historical geography need to be read together. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1900—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Foreglen, village and County providing the first useful test.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

A short description can identify a subject without explaining its stakes. For “Foreglen”, the useful work is to connect “village in County Londonderry, Northern Ireland” to the records capable of establishing context and consequence.

Evidence profile

Place names and jurisdictional language are key evidence: both can reveal earlier catalogue descriptions and overlooked record series. The source revision retrieved here is dated Nov 22, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q793536. Authority coordinates are 54.926, -7.129. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1900.

Critical limits

Modern boundaries and familiar names can conceal earlier jurisdictions or structures that do not align with the present site. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

How to read it

Treat names, boundaries and functions as historically changeable. Maps, plans, inventories and administrative records can clarify what the place meant at different dates.

Best used for
  • Historic place names
  • Jurisdictional context
  • Routes into maps and plans
Verify next

Contemporary maps, plans, listed-building records, estate papers and the responsible local or national archive.

Three-step research path

  1. Establish the record: confirm the title “Foreglen”, its source revision and the description used here.
  2. Expand the search: follow Foreglen primary sources, Foreglen archive and Foreglen research across catalogues and specialist indexes.
  3. Test the account: compare the strongest cited source with the responsible institution’s current record and note any disagreement.

Questions for further research

  1. Which source most directly establishes the central claim about “Foreglen”?
  2. What physical evidence or contemporary plan supports the description?
  3. Which earlier names or jurisdictions may reveal additional records?
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Source & attribution

This entry incorporates text from “Foreglen” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.