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• • Mulligan’s Flat Mulligan’s (design) Brainstorm Studio • (research) Dowling Peter Dr

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• • Gold Creek Homestead Creek Gold Courtesy of the ACT Heritage Library. Heritage ACT the of Courtesy

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A SELF-GUIDED TOUR SELF-GUIDED A

NORTHERN GUNGAHLIN NORTHERN

Hill Reserve Hill 9.

Gold Creek Homestead Creek Gold 8.

Ginninderra Creek Ginninderra 7.

6. “Malton” 6.

Crinnigan’s Hut Ruins Hut Crinnigan’s 5.

Gungahlin Pond & Yerrabi Pond Pond Yerrabi & Pond Gungahlin 4.

Gundaroo Drive Quartz Ridge Quartz Drive Gundaroo 3.

os akHmsed Homestead Park Horse 2.

– Old Coach Road Coach Old –

– Grasslands –

GUNGAHLIN

– Shearing Shed Shearing –

– Dams –

– Gungahlin Quartz Ridge Quartz Gungahlin –

A heritage tour of tour heritage A

– The Old School Site School Old The –

1. 1. Mulligan’s Flat Flat Mulligan’s

GUNGAHLIN [2] GUNGAHLIN

LISTED PLACES IN IN PLACES LISTED

1. MULLIGAN’S

FLAT Old Coach Road Access is from Gundaroo Drive. The entry point and car parking Walking up from the area are clearly marked. An information area is located 200 metres Gundaroo Road carpark you from the car park. can locate and walk along the old coach road. The Mulligan’s Flat is an area The Old School Site Dams information area points the of remnant grassland, The old school site is There are numerous way. The Old Coach Road, woodland and open forest situated just inside the dams in Mulligan’s Flat constructed in 1880, was the extending over and area of gateway leading from the created during its pastoral main route which linked the 765 hectares reaching to the carpark off Gundaroo phase. The biggest is in early rural se lements in the Although north-eastern border of the Road. A few traces of the the southern section east Canberra/Queanbeyan region Gungahlin is Australian Capital Territory foundations are all that of the quartz ridge and is to the railhead at Bungendore, (ACT). The area is part of remains of the building, the size of a small lake. It Lake Bathurst and eventually one of Canberra’s the Canberra Nature Park. but two rows of pine trees was built in the 1960s and Sydney. It was also a link Local legend has it that it and a large specimen of has been maintained to between Bungendore and most recent urban gets its name from a former photinia remain in what provide a habitat for water Gundaroo, off ering a much Irish convict, Mulligan, was once the school yard. and wetland fauna. This shorter route than the former development areas who lived in the area in The school was opened dam is an ideal place to way via Queanbeyan and the 1840s. Mulligan’s Flat for primary students in sit quietly and rest and to Canberra. The road and its it has had a long retains much of the human the area from 1896 to 1931. observe the aquatic birds. corridor extend to the ACT/ history of the area in the The remains of the NSW border. Just below the European history several Aboriginal stone slope leading to the border foundations are some Grasslands dating well before artefact sites and evidence 50 metres in a northerly fence are the remains of an of European farms. Walking direction from the carpark. The Gundaroo Road orchard, stone footings and the establishment quietly along the trails will passes through the northern fence posts. These are the enable you to see the many section of Mulligan’s Flat. remnants of ‘Dugarvon’, a Gungahlin Quartz Ridge of Canberra and land and water birds that On the northern side of small homestead, owned by inhabit the region as well as A prominent quartz ridge the road there is an area Walter Ginn who farmed a much longer the mammals and reptiles. is located in the south- of gently sloping fi elds the area. west portion of Mulligan’s leading up to steep hills. Aboriginal history. Flat. The site is a massive These fi elds contain one Shearing Shed outcrop of reef quartz of the largest remaining Evidence of the pastoral laid down in the Silurian stands of Kangaroo Grass history of Mulligan’s Flat can geological period over in the ACT and the area is be seen in the shearing shed 400 million years ago. It is of signifi cant scientifi c and and yards. Follow the trail ‘hog-backed’ (steep ecological value. The ACT/ from the Gundaroo Road and symmetrical in shape) NSW border runs along the carpark for approximately and extends for over one ridgeline. The walk 1.3 kilometres. It is a small kilometre tracing the course from Gundaroo Road is two stand shed built of timber of the Gungahlin Fault Line. moderate and there is a framework and corrugated It has been noted as an track to follow. Towards iron cladding. The holding outstanding example of the ridge the track becomes yards and loading race are quartz intrusion along a steeper. If you make it you nearby. The shed was built fault line. will be rewarded with a during the 1940s and was sweeping view over both used up until 1994. Gungahlin and into NSW.

1 1 d d n i . ] 2 2].indd n i l h a g n u g [ [gungahlin 6 0 0 2 - 0 1 - T N NT-10-2006 M A AM 8 1 : 9 1 : 7 7:19:18 6 0 / 0 1 / 5 2 25/10/06

• • Mulligan’s Flat Mulligan’s (design) Brainstorm Studio • (research) Dowling Peter Dr

The publishers wish to acknowledge: to wish publishers The

• • Gold Creek Homestead Creek Gold Courtesy of the ACT Heritage Library. Heritage ACT the of Courtesy

• • Yerrabi Pond Yerrabi

www.act.nationaltrust.org.au

02 6230 0533 6230 02

Civic Square ACT 2608 ACT Square Civic

PO Box 1144 Box PO

Contact: National Trust of Australia (ACT) Australia of Trust National Contact:

© Copyright 2007 ACT Government ACT 2007 Copyright ©

with the assistance of the ACT Government. ACT the of assistance the with

National Trust of Australia (ACT) Australia of Trust National

This tour has been developed by the the by developed been has tour This

A SELF-GUIDED TOUR SELF-GUIDED A

NORTHERN GUNGAHLIN NORTHERN

Hill Reserve Hill 9.

Gold Creek Homestead Creek Gold 8.

Ginninderra Creek Ginninderra 7.

6. “Malton” 6.

Crinnigan’s Hut Ruins Hut Crinnigan’s 5.

Gungahlin Pond & Yerrabi Pond Pond Yerrabi & Pond Gungahlin 4.

Gundaroo Drive Quartz Ridge Quartz Drive Gundaroo 3.

os akHmsed Homestead Park Horse 2.

– Old Coach Road Coach Old –

– Grasslands –

GUNGAHLIN

– Shearing Shed Shearing –

– Dams –

– Gungahlin Quartz Ridge Quartz Gungahlin –

A heritage tour of tour heritage A

– The Old School Site School Old The –

Mulligan’s Flat Flat Mulligan’s 1.

GUNGAHLIN [2] GUNGAHLIN

LISTED PLACES IN IN PLACES LISTED

1. MULLIGAN’S

FLAT Old Coach Road Access is from Gundaroo Drive. The entry point and car parking Walking up from the area are clearly marked. An information area is located 200 metres Gundaroo Road carpark you from the car park. can locate and walk along the old coach road. The Mulligan’s Flat is an area The Old School Site Dams information area points the of remnant grassland, The old school site is There are numerous way. The Old Coach Road, woodland and open forest situated just inside the dams in Mulligan’s Flat constructed in 1880, was the extending over and area of gateway leading from the created during its pastoral main route which linked the 765 hectares reaching to the carpark off Gundaroo phase. The biggest is in early rural se lements in the Although north-eastern border of the Road. A few traces of the the southern section east Canberra/Queanbeyan region Gungahlin is Australian Capital Territory foundations are all that of the quartz ridge and is to the railhead at Bungendore, (ACT). The area is part of remains of the building, the size of a small lake. It Lake Bathurst and eventually one of Canberra’s the Canberra Nature Park. but two rows of pine trees was built in the 1960s and Sydney. It was also a link Local legend has it that it and a large specimen of has been maintained to between Bungendore and most recent urban gets its name from a former photinia remain in what provide a habitat for water Gundaroo, off ering a much Irish convict, Mulligan, was once the school yard. and wetland fauna. This shorter route than the former development areas who lived in the area in The school was opened dam is an ideal place to way via Queanbeyan and the 1840s. Mulligan’s Flat for primary students in sit quietly and rest and to Canberra. The road and its it has had a long retains much of the human the area from 1896 to 1931. observe the aquatic birds. corridor extend to the ACT/ history of the area in the The remains of the NSW border. Just below the European history several Aboriginal stone slope leading to the border foundations are some Grasslands dating well before artefact sites and evidence 50 metres in a northerly fence are the remains of an of European farms. Walking direction from the carpark. The Gundaroo Road orchard, stone footings and the establishment quietly along the trails will passes through the northern fence posts. These are the enable you to see the many section of Mulligan’s Flat. remnants of ‘Dugarvon’, a Gungahlin Quartz Ridge of Canberra and land and water birds that On the northern side of small homestead, owned by inhabit the region as well as A prominent quartz ridge the road there is an area Walter Ginn who farmed a much longer the mammals and reptiles. is located in the south- of gently sloping fi elds the area. west portion of Mulligan’s leading up to steep hills. Aboriginal history. Flat. The site is a massive These fi elds contain one Shearing Shed outcrop of reef quartz of the largest remaining Evidence of the pastoral laid down in the Silurian stands of Kangaroo Grass history of Mulligan’s Flat can geological period over in the ACT and the area is be seen in the shearing shed 400 million years ago. It is of signifi cant scientifi c and and yards. Follow the trail ‘hog-backed’ (steep ecological value. The ACT/ from the Gundaroo Road and symmetrical in shape) NSW border runs along the carpark for approximately and extends for over one ridgeline. The walk 1.3 kilometres. It is a small kilometre tracing the course from Gundaroo Road is two stand shed built of timber of the Gungahlin Fault Line. moderate and there is a framework and corrugated It has been noted as an track to follow. Towards iron cladding. The holding outstanding example of the ridge the track becomes yards and loading race are quartz intrusion along a steeper. If you make it you nearby. The shed was built fault line. will be rewarded with a during the 1940s and was sweeping view over both used up until 1994. Gungahlin and into NSW. 7 6

4. 5 GUNGAHLIN LAKES

2. There are several access points leading off Gundaroo HORSE PARK Road and Gundaroo Road HOMESTEAD & and Mirrabei Drive. 8 RURAL Gungahlin Lakes are COMPLEX two connecting artifi cial lakes formed during the 2 1 A privately operated farming development of Gungahlin complex and residence. and feature prominently Access is restricted but the in its urban landscape. The complex can be viewed from lakes were created by the 4 Gundaroo road travelling to damming of Ginninderra and from Mulligan’s Flat. Creek at two points.

Formerly called Dead You can walk around Horse Gully, Horse Park much of the perimeter is a homestead complex of the lakes. Waterbirds which dates from the and other aquatic species 4 early se lement of the established themselves upper Ginninderra Valley. on the margins and A slab co age (built in wood ducks breed there the 1840s) and a rubble in the spring. stone co age (1850s) were the fi rst buildings. The woolshed is of bush timber construction. Horse Park has been a continual 5. working farm for 150 years and as such is the oldest CRINNIGAN’S in the ACT. The area is HUT RUINS also important as a temporary wetland habitat Access from Wanderer for waterbirds, including Circuit, Amaroo. Turn off the migratory Latham’s Mirrabei Drive onto snipe which travels from Shoalhaven Avenue and then Eastern China and Japan le into Burdekin Avenue to 6. to spend the summer in Wanderer Circuit. The ruins the southern hemisphere. are fenced but can be viewed ‘MALTON’ from the road. Access is from Mirrabei Crinnigan’s Hut was Drive or a short walk from built in the 1840s by Crinnigan’s Hut ruins 7. 3. John Crinigan, a former following the pathway GINNINDERRA convict. He selected forty- crossing Ginninderra Creek. GUNDAROO one acres in the area in CREEK ROAD QUARTZ 1859 but was probably in The original site of the RIDGE residence as early as 1842. residence of Malton is now There are several ways to get The Crinigans are thought under the road surface of to Ginninderra Creek but an Access off Gundaroo Road to have had ten children, Mirrabei Drive. A plaque easy way to reach it is between between junctions of nine of whom died early on a stone just off the Crinnigan’s Hut and Malton. Gungahlin Drive and in life. There may be two pathway running parallel Mirrabei Drive, opposite other children buried to Mirrabei Drive north While walking between the service station. near the hut. of Shoalhaven Avenue Crinnigan’s Hut and Malton commemorates the site. In stop a while by Ginninderra The quartz ridge has All that remains of the 1859 John and Anne Butler Creek. The foot bridge been squeezed up due former three-roomed hut purchased a portion of the between these two historic to pressure along a fault are the ruins of the double Parish of Goorooyaroo places crosses Ginninderra line. It marks the edge of stone walls revealing a and built their home Creek in front of a small the Gungahlin Fault. The rubble infi ll and joints of above Ginninderra Creek, waterfall and upstream quartz outcrop is fractured mud mortar, two stone becoming neighbours of the of a pond formed by the creek. Ginninderra Creek and sha ered and rises fi replaces and a brick Crinnigans. One hundred 8. 9. up to one metre above the chimney. Crinnigan’s metres to the northwest of was very important to the surface. It continues for Hut is one of the few the plaque are two large early se lers in Gungahlin GOLD CREEK HILL approximately 100 metres remaining examples of pear trees, the remains of as it provided an almost HOMESTEAD RESERVE parallel to Gundaroo Road small family houses once the Malton orchard, that permanent source of fresh before grading down to common in the rural lands was planted on the property water. Like Crinnigan’s and Access is off Gungahlin Access at several points the general ground level. that now surround over 100 years ago. Malton Malton many of the early Drive between the junctions from Gurrang Avenue Canberra. Next to the was occupied by the Butler’s huts and homesteads were of Anne Clark Avenue and and also from Marungul ruins a grove of three and their descendants until built in valleys like this on Clarrie-Hermes Drive. Avenue. 150 year old pear trees, early this century. high ground above the fl ood two false accacias and line of the creek. Water was Gold Creek homestead This ridgeline two hawthorn trees. carried up from the creek to is owned by the ACT is composed of Hawthorn trees are now provide the daily needs of Government and the sedimentary shale and considered weeds in the the households and to water grounds are privately sandstones with quartz ACT but last century the orchards and fl ower leased. In 1860 layers exposed on the were favoured plantings gardens that were grown in Edmund Rolfe took up surface. A short walk near rural homes. In the grounds. Today this area the property which was to the crest of this hill spring you can see the of the creek is a favourite next to his parents and will be rewarded with a fl owering fl ag irises the place for wood ducks. Like established his own 360 degree view of the Crinnigans planted. all other ducks, they prefer residence. He fi rst built a Gungahlin area. Facing to be near water, but unlike small slab and stone co age east you are overlooking most other ducks do not characteristic of the time. the Gungahlin lakes and mind perching in trees Later when he prospered, the suburbs of Nicholls with other birds. In the he built the fi rst part of the and Ngunnawal. late a ernoon and early homestead with squared Belconnen and Black evening you can hear the stone and followed with Mountain are in the frogs in the pond. an addition of brick in the distance. Facing north same style as the original. and west you can see Rolfe was caught up in the the rolling hills in the gold-fever of the time and distance marking the unsuccessfully invested ACT border. One Tree and worked a mine in Hill is the highest point nearby Hall. rising to 876 metres.

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4. 5 GUNGAHLIN LAKES

2. There are several access points leading off Gundaroo HORSE PARK Road and Gundaroo Road HOMESTEAD & and Mirrabei Drive. 8 RURAL Gungahlin Lakes are COMPLEX two connecting artifi cial lakes formed during the 2 1 A privately operated farming development of Gungahlin complex and residence. and feature prominently Access is restricted but the in its urban landscape. The complex can be viewed from lakes were created by the 4 Gundaroo road travelling to damming of Ginninderra and from Mulligan’s Flat. Creek at two points.

Formerly called Dead You can walk around Horse Gully, Horse Park much of the perimeter is a homestead complex of the lakes. Waterbirds which dates from the and other aquatic species 4 early se lement of the established themselves upper Ginninderra Valley. on the margins and A slab co age (built in wood ducks breed there the 1840s) and a rubble in the spring. stone co age (1850s) were the fi rst buildings. The woolshed is of bush timber construction. Horse Park has been a continual 5. working farm for 150 years and as such is the oldest CRINNIGAN’S in the ACT. The area is HUT RUINS also important as a temporary wetland habitat Access from Wanderer for waterbirds, including Circuit, Amaroo. Turn off the migratory Latham’s Mirrabei Drive onto snipe which travels from Shoalhaven Avenue and then Eastern China and Japan le into Burdekin Avenue to 6. to spend the summer in Wanderer Circuit. The ruins the southern hemisphere. are fenced but can be viewed ‘MALTON’ from the road. Access is from Mirrabei Crinnigan’s Hut was Drive or a short walk from built in the 1840s by Crinnigan’s Hut ruins 7. 3. John Crinigan, a former following the pathway GINNINDERRA convict. He selected forty- crossing Ginninderra Creek. GUNDAROO one acres in the area in CREEK ROAD QUARTZ 1859 but was probably in The original site of the RIDGE residence as early as 1842. residence of Malton is now There are several ways to get The Crinigans are thought under the road surface of to Ginninderra Creek but an Access off Gundaroo Road to have had ten children, Mirrabei Drive. A plaque easy way to reach it is between between junctions of nine of whom died early on a stone just off the Crinnigan’s Hut and Malton. Gungahlin Drive and in life. There may be two pathway running parallel Mirrabei Drive, opposite other children buried to Mirrabei Drive north While walking between the service station. near the hut. of Shoalhaven Avenue Crinnigan’s Hut and Malton commemorates the site. In stop a while by Ginninderra The quartz ridge has All that remains of the 1859 John and Anne Butler Creek. The foot bridge been squeezed up due former three-roomed hut purchased a portion of the between these two historic to pressure along a fault are the ruins of the double Parish of Goorooyaroo places crosses Ginninderra line. It marks the edge of stone walls revealing a and built their home Creek in front of a small the Gungahlin Fault. The rubble infi ll and joints of above Ginninderra Creek, waterfall and upstream quartz outcrop is fractured mud mortar, two stone becoming neighbours of the of a pond formed by the creek. Ginninderra Creek and sha ered and rises fi replaces and a brick Crinnigans. One hundred 8. 9. up to one metre above the chimney. Crinnigan’s metres to the northwest of was very important to the surface. It continues for Hut is one of the few the plaque are two large early se lers in Gungahlin GOLD CREEK HILL approximately 100 metres remaining examples of pear trees, the remains of as it provided an almost HOMESTEAD RESERVE parallel to Gundaroo Road small family houses once the Malton orchard, that permanent source of fresh before grading down to common in the rural lands was planted on the property water. Like Crinnigan’s and Access is off Gungahlin Access at several points the general ground level. that now surround over 100 years ago. Malton Malton many of the early Drive between the junctions from Gurrang Avenue Canberra. Next to the was occupied by the Butler’s huts and homesteads were of Anne Clark Avenue and and also from Marungul ruins a grove of three and their descendants until built in valleys like this on Clarrie-Hermes Drive. Avenue. 150 year old pear trees, early this century. high ground above the fl ood two false accacias and line of the creek. Water was Gold Creek homestead This ridgeline two hawthorn trees. carried up from the creek to is owned by the ACT is composed of Hawthorn trees are now provide the daily needs of Government and the sedimentary shale and considered weeds in the the households and to water grounds are privately sandstones with quartz ACT but last century the orchards and fl ower leased. In 1860 layers exposed on the were favoured plantings gardens that were grown in Edmund Rolfe took up surface. A short walk near rural homes. In the grounds. Today this area the property which was to the crest of this hill spring you can see the of the creek is a favourite next to his parents and will be rewarded with a fl owering fl ag irises the place for wood ducks. Like established his own 360 degree view of the Crinnigans planted. all other ducks, they prefer residence. He fi rst built a Gungahlin area. Facing to be near water, but unlike small slab and stone co age east you are overlooking most other ducks do not characteristic of the time. the Gungahlin lakes and mind perching in trees Later when he prospered, the suburbs of Nicholls with other birds. In the he built the fi rst part of the and Ngunnawal. late a ernoon and early homestead with squared Belconnen and Black evening you can hear the stone and followed with Mountain are in the frogs in the pond. an addition of brick in the distance. Facing north same style as the original. and west you can see Rolfe was caught up in the the rolling hills in the gold-fever of the time and distance marking the unsuccessfully invested ACT border. One Tree and worked a mine in Hill is the highest point nearby Hall. rising to 876 metres.

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