Here we see Thomas Raven’s 1622 picture-map of The Grocers’ Company village at Muff - otherwise known as Eglinton. A slightly unusual street pattern, here we have (in the top left) the bawn with a street running in front of it and the houses lined-up next to it.

This is an interesting example of bawn fortification because here the house is joined directly to the outer wall; it would appear almost that the function of the bawn as a fortification is subverted because its outer face is pierced by numerous windows. The corner towers of the bawn appear to be under construction: the illustration appears to show the timber beams without slating.

Particularly interesting in this house is the fact that it was recorded as having cellars and these cellars, we think, have been discovered underneath a building which still stands on the site.

Bottom-left we see a new church - again built for Protestant worship, standard rectangular form with slated roof. And then along the main street, a series of six houses - five of them of English style and one being of Irish style - stone-built, slate-roofed, brick-chimneyed.

Interestingly, Sir Thomas Phillips’ accompanying commentary in relation to this village, recommended that another plantation be established nearby. He said that it was necessary to strengthen the inhabitants of this proportion who are daily robbed and spoiled. Clearly the population here and its remoteness from other centres was sufficient to make it easy prey to the Irish.