Sunday, 25 September 2011

An uncanny reunion at Bellahill - to walk the 'Cassie' cattle trail to Dalway's Bawn.

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Saturday 17 September 2011 was a big day for these 'East of Eden' chronicles (and for me), as I met up with Ray Cowan after almost 6...
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Sunday, 12 June 2011

What happened when the Dalways of Dalway's Bawn went "Down Under".

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Marriott Robert Dalway was the last of the Dalways to live at Dalway’s Bawn. He left Ireland for Australia at the end of 1886, shortly after...
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Tuesday, 8 March 2011

The O'Haughan Brothers: Outlaws on the Commons Cattle Trail

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There is a cave called "O'Haughan's Cave" at the foot of the Knockagh cliffs above Greenisland, just west of the town of ...
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Saturday, 15 January 2011

Portmuck and Bryan O'Neill in 1572

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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...
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Thursday, 6 January 2011

Cattle men from Scotland? The Eslers at Dalways Bawn

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In 1860, two James Eslers (father and son) were living beside each other a few fields away from Dalways Bawn. James Esler, senior, was in th...
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Thursday, 2 December 2010

Booley huts and booleying on the Commons

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The ghostly footprints of ancient sod walls still mark the sites where families once moved with their cattle up to uplands in county Antrim ...
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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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