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• Go left another 50 yards around the corner to reach...
Bishop's Gate:
From here, look up Bishop Street Within (inside the walls). This was
the site of another British Army surveillance tower. Placed just inside the town walls, it
overlooked the neighborhood until 2006. Now look in the other direction to see Bishop
Street Without (outside the walls). You'll spot a modern wall topped by a high mesh fence,
runningalongtheleft sideofBishopStreet Without. Thisisaso-called
“peace wall,”
built
to ensure the security of the Protestant enclave living behind it in Derry's Fountain neigh-
borhood. When the Troubles reignited 45 years ago, 20,000 Protestants lived on this side
of the river. Sadly, this small housing development of 1,000 people is all that remains of
that proud community today. The rest have chosen to move across the river to the mostly
Protestant Waterside district. The stone tower halfway down the “peace wall” is all that
remains of the old jail that briefly held doomed rebel Wolfe Tone after the 1798 revolt
against the British.
