Category: People & Places

Five months ago, in early November 2020, I decided to look more at the British government's excellent 1876 publication: Owners of land of One Acre and Upward, Ireland Return.  This publication...

The Reverend James Smyth, Minister of Drimbolg between 1827 and 1869, was much-loved in the local community.  This website has previously covered his time in charge at Drimbolg, and referenced the...

During the lock-down last year, I started to read a lot more about the three exceptionally talented Given brothers from Cullybackey - Patrick, Samuel and Thomas.  I'd been aware of the younger...

Ken Wells, from Maryland, in the USA, would love to get more information on the Taylor part of his family tree in Cullybackey.  The Taylors are buried in the Craigs churchyard just outside the...

My father, Richard Mulholland, died some years ago.  In recent years, two of his siblings have also passed on.  There is now only one left.   Sammy Mulholland, who lives at the top of...

Early last year, Trudger came upon a very early reference to Cullybackey in an old book, The Life of a Scottish Probationer: Being a Memoir of Thomas Davidson, with His Poems and Extracts from His...