Draperstown (/ˌdrɛpərzˈtaʊn, ˌdriːpərz-/)[3] is a village in the Sperrin Mountains in County Londonderry, Northern Ireland.

[8] Prior to this however the settlement was originally known as "Borbury" (from Irish Bóthar Buí, meaning 'yellow road').

[8] Despite the name given to it by the Drapers' Company, locals continued to commonly refer to the settlement with a variety of names: The term "screen" in the popular Irish song The Verdant Braes of Screen apparently refers to Ballinascreen.

In the 1600s, at the time of the Plantation of Ulster, the expropriated land in the Ballinacreen area was allocated to two London Livery Companies.

In 1798, Laughlin McNamee, a publican from nearby Moneyneena, opened a public house at the crossroads where the local fair was held.

McNamee is buried at St. Columba's Church in Straw (from Irish An tSrath 'The river meadow').

[10] In 1812, the Drapers Company built a series of buildings including a courthouse at the other side of the crossroads from the main street.

[14] The Roman Catholic Parish of Ballinascreen covers the town of Draperstown and surrounding district.

It was a monastery church called Scrin Colimbkille (Columbcille's shrine) which is located in the townland of Moneyconey outside the town.

[18] Draperstown is classified as a village by the NI Statistics and Research Agency (NISRA).

Although the most prominent native Irish speaker was Éilis Ní Dhonnghaile (1857–1935) of Labby, records of other Irish speakers included the Murray sisters in Moneyneena (1931), Peig James (1943) and Hannah James (1947); Matthew Regan, Draperstown (1942); and Mary Anne Doherty, Moneyneena and Antrim (1965).