Eglinton still has an elegant church, former market house, trees around a green and four oaks which started life in Windsor Great Park.

[7] At an embankment of Lough Foyle, birdwatchers can find the feeding ground of many seabirds and waders on the mud flats at low tide.

As part of the Plantation of Ulster, James I had granted a large area (15,900 acres) of Faughanvale parish to the Grocers in 1609.

The Grocers did not farm it themselves but leased this area to Edward Rone of Essex in 1615 with the stipulation that he built a bawn and 12 houses by 1619.

Rone died in 1618 but his brother-in-law Robert Harrington took over and by 1619 a castle and bawn, as well as eight houses were erected in the townland of Muff (now Eglinton) and by 1622 the stipulated building was completed The castle (really a castellated house and bawn with 4 flanker towers) was besieged in 1641 during the English Civil War by the insurgents under Colonel McDonnell and defended by the garrison during the winter of that year.

During the Siege of Derry, the castle was briefly occupied by troops of King James while they were foraging for supplies.

Foyle Park was built in 1813 by David Babington who rented his land from the Worshipful Company of Grocers.

The mansion was built when Babington started to make land improvements in the west of the village between 1805 and 1836 when he planted 172,000 trees, mainly to shelter the house.

Another of the oldest buildings today is the Erasmus Smith schoolhouse built in 1814 beside the old national school of 1886 both now private residences.

The Grocers sold the village in 1874 to James Davidson from Brechin, Scotland; his descendants still reside in the manor house to this day.

Shane Crossagh O'Mullan was born and lived in the townland of Tullanee in Eglinton (then Muff), where his father held land on the Grocers Estate.

[12] Shanes father, Donal, was evicted after a bailiffs son was allegedly insulted at their home.

[12][10] Shane refused, and spent his next years as a Raparee, where he stole from wealthy settlers and landlords with the support of others who were dispossessed.