Lough Neagh Freshwater LakeLough Neagh (Loch Neathachis) is a large freshwater lake in Northern Ireland. The Lough Neagh Basin is a depression, built from several tectonic events which date as...
Last weekend, while researching an article on those times across recorded history, that the River Bann was frozen over, I chanced upon two old poems related to the river, from the late 1800s. ...
Swatragh was a few miles from our small farm. It is a small village with just over 500 residents. My father would go there only occasionally - and more often than not, to visit the Northern...
On doing a search for the first motor car to be seen in or near Portglenone, I came across this delightful old letter from September 1902.Mrs E. C. Herdman, writing from the Red House, in...
"At the meeting of the Market Committee it was reported that the new market-house at present being built would be ready for occupation shortly. The Secretary’s report the working of the markets...
Reverend Rainey Churchtown Presbyterian Church Tamlaght O’Crilly
The Reverend John Joseph Adams Rainey was a much loved minister at Churchtown Presbyterian Church in the village of Tamlaght O'Crilly, and preached there from 1933 to 1982. From his very first day,...
