Now a haven for wildlife, the quarry is said to be haunted by the ghost of a US soldier who was accidentally killed there before the excavation ceased in 1944. They excavated a quarry and used the rock to make a landing place for their ships at Lisahalley Docks on the River Foyle. The editor of the local paper took up the cause, calling for some timber to be left standing and Prehen Wood was spared.ĭuring the Second World War, parts of Prehen Wood were used by American forces stationed near Londonderry/Derry city. In 1929, much of the woodland was sold off for timber production, and its imminent destruction resulted in a local outcry. The Prehen House Estate remained in the ownership of the Knox family until the outbreak of the First World War, when it was sequestered by the government after the last of the Knox family married a German national. Andrew Knox acquired Prehen in 1740 and built Prehen House, which stands in Prehen to this day. In 1738, the Prehen heiress Honoria Tomkins married Andrew Knox of Rathmullan and Moneymore. Since the re - opening of the Railway Mission at the high level station.
Eventually, the Elvin family settled on the land, and then the Tomkins family. Lane, Wood, and Pegg, gave helpful words to those on the. Records from the 17th century show the land moving from the ownership of Captain Manus O’Cahan to the Goldsmiths Company of London.
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