Saturday, 26 June 2010

Dalways Bawn: The Earl of Essex's Plantation in east Antrim

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(This is the fourth of a series exploring the history of the Dalway cattle drove trail) John Dalway’s Bawn and his cattle ‘empire’ in east...
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Saturday, 19 June 2010

Dalway's Bawn and Cowboy Trail: The Irish Dimension

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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...
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Thursday, 17 June 2010

Dalway's Bawn and Cowboy Trail: The East Antrim kye-way

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(This is the second of a series exploring the history of the Dalway cattle drove trail) Why was Dalway’s Bawn built? We know when, (it was...
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Friday, 4 June 2010

The year of the crowning in Eden

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The 'East of Eden' chronicles took an uncanny twist this week. I had just posted the last blog about Eric Glynn and myself exploring...
Tuesday, 1 June 2010

Dalway's Bawn and the Marshallstown cowboys

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(This is the 1st of a series exploring the history of the Dalway cattle drove trail) To find Dalways Bawn as I did as a boy, you would have ...
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Friday, 28 May 2010

The original Yahoos at Kilroot

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The 'Round House' in Kilroot, just a stone's throw east of Eden in county Antrim, was where Jonathan Swift is supposed to have l...
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Wednesday, 19 May 2010

Eden re-visited

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Sometimes going back to the the green, green grass of home is disturbing - especially if the grass has been covered in tarmac and concrete ...
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