Steinbeck's Redemption

My home village of Boneybefore between Carrickfergus and Kilroot is where the President Andrew Jackson Cottage and US Rangers Museum can be...

Arthur Dobbs of Castle Dobbs, Kilroot, is seen in this portrait as holding a map of North Carolina. He was appointed 'Royal' Govern...

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...

The Commons of Carrickfergus appears on the 1832 map (see last post) as a vast, featureless upland moor, devoid of any evidence of human act...

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...