Steinbeck's Redemption

In this detail of a map prepared for Sir Thomas Smith's Plantation of the Ards in 1572, " Belfurs t " (Belfast) is shown at th...

Sailing into Portmuck harbour from Scotland takes you past the small Isle of Muck - seen here with the north end of the Gobbins Cliffs in Is...

Since my first blog postings about Dalway's Bawn in June and July 2010, a lot more information has come to light on this 17th century ca...

The old cattle drove routes across county Antrim run east-west (across the grain to the north-south direction of most of the main lines of c...

Up till now, I've only been able to show glimpses of the Cattle trail across the Commons of Carrickfergus as it survived after the Commo...

Take these ingredients: 1. Dalway's Bawn; 2. The Cattle Trail across the Commons from Ballynure to the coastal ports linked to Scotla...

(This is the fifth of a series exploring the history of the Dalway cattle drove trail) Although the Earl of Essex had died in 1576, t...

Right in the heart of the Commons, just alongside the old cattle trail, is a spring-well marked on the Ordnance Survey map as ‘Bryan O’Neill...