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[caption id="attachment_18574" align="aligncenter" width="1200"] Portglenone Primary School 1975-1976[/caption] Portglenone Primary School, on the Townhill Road, is where I spent the first years...
Here's a very old local poem from near the beginning of the 20th century. The author, who lives in Belfast, and his friend, R.C. Mackbee, go on an early summer walk in the Portglenone area. ...
When it comes to tracing old family names in a region, it's always nice to find a new unexpected source of information. A few months ago, while perusing old newspapers, I discovered this...
I was searching through old newspapers recently, trying to discover the earliest local murder (i.e. local meaning in the Portglenone, Kilrea, Maghera area) that was referenced in the media. On...
I put 'Ballymena' in the title, because google is probably fed up seeing 'Portglenone' in so many of my titles! Ballymena would be the nearest large regional town, about 13 miles away. Magherafelt...
A local Cullybackey man, named Calderwood, in the 1920s, wrote a poem about the essential contribution of the local farmer. The poem was published in a local newspaper (sadly long since...