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…
On doing a search for the first motor car to be seen in or near Portglenone, I…
“At the meeting of the Market Committee it was reported that the new market-house at present being…
This old graveyard is situated less than one kilometer out the Townhill Road in Portglenone. It sits…
In perusing old newspapers, one occasionally encounters some locally written poetry (which will often bring to life…
Aughnacleagh is a townland on the outskirts of Portglenone, in County Antrim. It is in the Barony…
Ok, this is very much a work-in-progress. Hoping to see past pupils send in their memories of…
Portglenone poet remembers locals who fought in World War One at the Somme, Flanders and Verdun.
Poem, The Clady River, written by Harry Armstrong of Eden near Portglenone.
1950s photograph of Main Street, Portglenone, most likely from the late 1950s. It shows Sammy Simmons confectionary store, D.H. Chesney’s petrol pump, Robert Aicken’s clothing store, as well as the Post Office.
Poem from 1937, by Henry Lynn, about his local river, called The Banks of the Clady.
Earliest photograph of Tamlaght O’Crilly Lower church near Innisrush.
North of Ireland – deer hunt in October 1849 – from Shane’s Castle across Coolbawn, Ballymacpeake and Tamladuff townlands near Portglenone