I recently spotted, in an old newspaper, the death notice of a very old lady in Cullybackey. Martha Hanna was a stunning 126 years old when she died in March 1808. 1808 Cullybackey - 126 Year Old …
Reverend Buick – Cuningham Memorial Church
In recent months, I have been working a fair bit on the photographs taken at the graveyards in and around Cullybackey. The research has also taken in very old newspapers and photo archives. This has …
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1892 – Fishing in Lough Neagh and the Lower River Bann
Lough Neagh Freshwater Lake Lough 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 far …
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1882 Poetry – Beside the Silvery Bann
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. …
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Old photo of Swatragh village, Mercers, McFadden Funeral
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 Counties …
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1902, Early Motor Car Trip in the North of Ireland
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 …
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