The village of Eglinton lies just off the Causeway Coastal Route, it dates from the Plantation of Ulster when the surrounding land was granted to the Grocer's Company, one of twelve London companies committed to the Plantation of Ulster by King James 1st.  They subsequently leased the land to Edward Rone in 1615 with a covenant that he built a Bawn (fortified homestead) and twelve houses. By 1619 a bawn and eight houses stood here, the settlement was called Muff ('Mhagh - the plain)  the same name as the river, glen and townland.