National Survey Fieldwork
Just returned from a week of fieldwork from Galway to south Donegal. Lots of salt works sites visited, many were sadly destroyed, others were buried and so preserve the potential […]
Just returned from a week of fieldwork from Galway to south Donegal. Lots of salt works sites visited, many were sadly destroyed, others were buried and so preserve the potential […]
Ballycastle salt works were visited yesterday by the Scottish Society for Northern Studies as part of their conference Maritime Hinterlands of the North Irish Sea. Their field trip to the north […]
‘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 […]
The work to identify and document the series of salt-working sites at Ballycastle, Co. Antrim began with the late Danny McGill (1944-2013), a local historian with a keen interest in […]