Monday, 1 November 2010

Whitehead and Islandmagee: The Eslers in control of the end of the cattle trail

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Whitehead is a quiet sea-side town, just a short hop on the train from Carrickfergus towards Larne. The road 'East of Eden' to Larne...
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Saturday, 16 October 2010

Mark Twain - descended from the Dalways of Dalway's Bawn?

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When I first read 'Tom Sawyer ' by Mark Twain as a boy it gripped me like no other book I had ever read. The stories in my other boo...
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Tuesday, 12 October 2010

Portmuck - the end of the Cattle Trail

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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...
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Monday, 4 October 2010

The Gobbins Cliffs

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The Gobbins cliffs in Islandmagee run almost continuously between the sea-ports of Whitehead and Portmuck, so that these two tiny harbours w...
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Wednesday, 29 September 2010

Along the Cattle Trail - in sight of Scotland

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Last week I explored further along the old cattle drove road where it survives from the Commons to Dalway's Bawn. This was a new stretch...
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Wednesday, 15 September 2010

Dalway's Bawn Revisited

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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...
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Monday, 6 September 2010

The Road from Boneybefore

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Our history in Boneybefore was folk history - tales told to us by the likes of Tillie Millar from the door of her thatched cottage. "...
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