In the Archives…
Active fieldwork has finished but work continues in trawling through documentary and cartographic sources to inform the findings of the salt project. For our flagship site at Ballycastle the archives […]
Active fieldwork has finished but work continues in trawling through documentary and cartographic sources to inform the findings of the salt project. For our flagship site at Ballycastle the archives […]
Halloween may have just past, but in researching the historical salt works around the Irish coast we uncovered a few gruesome incidents fit for late night story-telling! On the 19th November […]
This week on site began by concentrating on the rubble strewn through the interior of the building. This was removed while paying attention to any potential structures to support the […]
Week 2 of the dig finished with finally defining the limits of our dry-stone building, and it’s fairly modest at c.4x4m internally. The walls are double-boulder with rubble infill and […]
As well as searching for the remains of salt pans, houses, foreshore features and other traces of salt production, the project also has an active interest in the homes and […]
The recent fine weather inspired a trip to Donegal to visit the fine upstanding remains of a salt works at Ray. Two salt houses are present along the shore, of […]
Salt pans at Carlingford are marked on a map made in 1693 by Captain Greenville-Collins. The feature appears to be a large pond, and although the map is not to scale […]
‘On January 1st, 1847 the Ballyshannon Herald contains a classic tale of drama in this famine stricken countryside. On Christmas Eve a schooner lay at anchor just inside the Bar […]