Increasing Cost Building Innisrush Foot Bridge
Escalating Cost of Innisrush Foot Bridge
The foot bridge at Innisrush was built around 1900 or shortly there after.
Looking at old [...]
Innisrush School Headmistress Mrs Crockett
Innisrush Primary School, 1951-52
This is a photograph taken at Innisrush Primary School during the 1951/52 academic year. To give some [...]
Innisrush School Pre War Photograph
Innisrush School, 1933
Here’s a wonderful old photograph, from 1933, of the students at Innisrush Public Elementary School.
For the purposes of [...]
Innisrush Public Elementary School 1956
Innisrush School, 1956
Here’s a wonderful old photograph, from 1956, of the students at Innisrush Public Elementary School.
For the purposes of [...]
Moneystaghan Hibernian Band
Moneystaghan Hibernian Band, 1961
My parents were very friendly with Colm Lynn (who lived near the Waterwall bar, and not far [...]
Pound School, Grange, Randalstown
Harvest Time in Eden during the 1940s
St. Mary's Primary School, Greenlough, Clady
Auld Whiskey Bar at the Bridge
My chums and I often go out on the spree,
When we hae an odd shilling we let it go free.
Each [...]
Poem - To a Lady in Kilrea
Morning brings us many a flower,
All delightful to the eye,
Trees and shrubs of dewy grandeur
In the rays sunshine lie.
Lovely though [...]
Somme Flanders Verdun Poem: The Wounded Soldiers
It’s of the wounded soldiers,
I pen you this lament;
Their King and Country called them,
And proudly off they [...]
Poem Kilrea Railway Station Bridge
Kilrea Railway Station Bridge Poem
The demolition, in the late 1950s, of the bridge at Kilrea Railway Station caused much regret [...]
Kilrea Fire Station Crew
Kilrea Fire Station Crew in 1950s
Rectors at Tamlaght O'Crilly Lower Church
Rectors at Tamlaght O’Crilly Lower Church
The Tamlaght O’Crilly parish was largely settled in the plantation era by English settlers. But [...]
Poem - The Clady River by Harry Armstrong
The Clady River
By Harry Armstrong
I have been to Derry City, that proudly strides the Foyle
I have walked over Dublin’s Liffey, [...]
Photo of Sammy Simmons, Chesney, Aicken
Portglenone Stores – Aicken, Chesney, Simmons
Here is a lovely old photograph of Main Street in Portglenone, most likely taken in [...]
Henry Lynn Poem - Banks of the Clady
Henry Lynn poem from 1937
The Banks of the Clady
Around the banks of Clady, a lovely place to dwell,
With banks [...]
Earliest Photo of Tamlaght O'Crilly Lower Church
Earliest Photo of Tamlaght O’Crilly Lower Church
I recently came across this very old photo of Tamlaght O’Crilly Lower church (the [...]
Drumoolish Bridegroom Accidentally Shot Dead
Drumoolish Bridegroom Killed after Wedding
An inquest was held in the National School House of Innisrush, on Monday the 8th December [...]
Innisrush Flax Mill
Innisrush Flax Mill
The mill wheel at Innisrush was powered by the waters of the Clady River. This subsidiary ran into [...]
Innisrush signs the Ulster Covenant
Innisrush Signs the Ulster Covenant
In September 1912, some 299 locals from in, and around the Innisrush area, signed the Ulster [...]
Player's Cigarettes & John Mulholland of Eden Portglenone
Player’s Cigarettes & John Mulholland
I recently encountered an old newspaper advertisement for Player’s Cigarettes. It was from 1916.  Long since [...]
Kitty of Coleraine
Kitty of ColeraineColeraine is a town some 30 miles East of Londonderry and 55 miles Northwest of Belfast. The name [...]
Downhill & Magilligan Poem, 1794
Downhill, Benone & Magilligan Rare Poem
Downhill Strand, more commonly referred to as Benone Strand, is a stunning seven mile long [...]
Augustine Henry, Botanist
Augustine Henry, BotanistAugustine Henry was born to an Irish family, on the 2nd July 1857 in Dundee, Scotland. His mother [...]
Crimean War Poem - When Will the Battle End
Crimean War, Rediscovered 1856 Poem by Belfast Soldier
In 1855, there had been much talk across Europe of the escalation of [...]
Poem - Old Aughnahoy Graveyard
Poem – Old Aughnahoy Graveyard
Old Aughnahoy graveyard, which is just outside Portglenone, dates back to 1792, was the subject of [...]
Portglenone Primary School Memories
Portglenone Primary School Memories
Headmaster Mills Love of PoetryHeadmaster Mills was the principal of Portglenone Primary School, on the Townhill Road, [...]
Derry Central Railway
Derry Central Railway
Derry Central Railway, after being instigated by the Derry Central Railway Act of 1877, was constructed from Macfin [...]
Churchtown - Tamlaght O'Crilly, Reverend Mulholland
Churchtown Presbyterian Church – Reverend Mulholland
The Reverend Henry Cunningham Mulholland, B.A., preached in Churchtown Presbyterian Church – in Tamlaght O’Crilly [...]
Kilrea Church of Ireland - St Patricks - Gravestones
Kilrea Church of Ireland – St Patricks – Gravestones
St Patricks Church in Kilrea
The Church of Ireland in Kilrea – [...]
Deer Hunt from Shane's Castle to Ballymacpeake
Deer hunt from Shane’s Castle across Coolbawn & Ballymacpeake townlands, near Portglenone
Ireland – Deer Hunt Extraordinary
One of the most amusing [...]
St Patrick's Night Concert Portglenone Hall
1943, All-Star Variety Concert on St Patrick’s Night in Portglenone
The above advert appeared in the Friday 5th March 1943 edition [...]
Aughnahoy Catholic Graveyard
Aughnahoy Catholic GraveyardFather John Cassidy, who was the parish priest of Ahoghill and Portglenone, bought in 1779 from Charles Hamilton [...]
1884 - Largy Accident - boy killed by mill wheel
September 1884,
Fatal Accident at Portglenone
On Sunday evening, 14th September 1884, a number of boys were playing at a mill at [...]
Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening
Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening
Whose woods these are I think I know.
His house is in the village [...]
Drimbolg Reformed Presbyterian Church
Drimbolg Reformed Presbyterian ChurchDrimbolg church, or meeting house as it is commonly referred to, was built in 1837. It is [...]
1896 Advert for White House in Portrush
The White House in Portrush
Here is a wonderful 1896 newspaper advertisement for the young White House department store in Portrush. [...]
Sailing Down the Bann
Portglenone Poem – Sailing Down the Bann
The poem below, about sailing down the River Bann in a rowing boat, is [...]
Thompson Mulholland Confirmation in Kilrea
Thompson Mulholland Confirmation
My grandfather, Thompson Mulholland, of Ballymacpeake, Eden, Portglenone, got confirmed in Kilrea Parish Church – aka St. Patrick’s [...]
Emigration - One Family leaves County Derry for America
Emigration – Leaving Ireland for America
The 1720s witnessed the first significant wave of emigration from Ireland to the New World. [...]
High Sheriffs of County Londonderry Ireland 1670 to 1883
Here is an exceptionally rare list of County Londonderry’s High Sheriffs, across over two hundred years, from the late 1600s [...]
High Sheriffs of County Antrim in Ireland from 1603 to 1854
The High Sheriffs of County Antrim 1603 to 1854Between 1603 and 1854, three Portglenone men held the office of High [...]
Grave Robbers unearth Mary Thompson in Kilrea
Graverobbers in Kilrea CemetaryIn the 1700 and 1800s, there were insufficient corpses to meet the needs of teaching centres and [...]
Oliver Paul R.B.P. New Banner, Tamlaght O'Crilly Service
New Banner Dedicated at service Tamlaght O’Crilly Upper Church
Sir Knights from Coleraine and Ballymena and from the R.B.P. Districts in [...]
Tamlaght Lower Church of Ireland Vestry Meetings
Tamlaght Lower Church
Vestry Meetings – 1885 to 1940
This page recalls the vestry meetings at Tamlaght O’Crilly Lower Church [...]
Reverend Frackelton of Tamlaght Lower Church
Reverend Samuel Scott Frackelton,
Rector of Tamlaght Lower, 1881 to 1911
The Reverend Samuel Scott Frackelton was rector at Tamlaght O’Crilly Lower [...]
Reverend Mark Bloxham of Tamlaght O'Crilly Lower Church
Reverend Mark Bloxham of Tamlaght O’Crilly
Lower Church of Ireland – near Innisrush
Mark Bloxham was curate in Tamlaght Lower (back then [...]
Tamlaght O'Crilly Lower Graveyard
Tamlaght O’Crilly Lower
Church Graveyard, near Innisrush
Tamlaght O’Crilly Lower Church of Ireland, aka Saint Nossonus’, sits a few hundred yards east [...]
Ulster Covenant, September 1912, Eden, Tamlaght
The Ulster Covenant (sometimes referred to as Ulster’s Solemn League and Covenant) was signed by 471,414 people (237,368 men and [...]
