Steinbeck's Redemption

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...

When I went back to the Commons recently to see if any parts of the old cattle trail from Ballynure to Dalway's Bawn could still be tra...

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 second time the East of Eden Chronicles have taken a strange twist with the discovery of another old photograph taken about 1953...

(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...

(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...

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...