Historical places of interest ranging from castles to cottages, domains to dolmens, battlegrounds to birthplaces. Places of interest to us and also, hopefully, to you.
Belfast’s first museum, located in College Square North, was the first museum in Ireland to be financed solely through public donations.
A popular tourist destination, Glenarm Castle has been home to the Earls of Antrim and the McDonnell family for 400 years.
Groomsport, Co. Down, popular with retirees, week-end visitors and sailing enthusiasts , has a history of Vikings, wealth and tragedy.
Today Crown Entry is only a sad reflection of what it once was, when schools, and shops and houses and businesses jostled for space.
Queen Street’s Belfast Hospital for Sick Children opened in April 1879 funded through donations and subscriptions. Today it lies derelict
Cushendall, County Antrim is a pretty, friendly, colourful and busy village with a colourful history to match.
A small 17th‑century street, Church Lane has an impressive history featuring a myriad of occupants, ghosts, bars and ‘Bullseye Braithwaite’
Lombard Street, Belfast replaced Legg’s Lane and Caddell’s Entry as a popular business location featuring the Curiosity Shop and Gutta-percha
The picturesque ruins and history of Dunluce Castle “are not surpassed by any on the entire coasts of the British Isles” (McComb’s Guide to Belfast, 1861)
Today Academy Street, Belfast is an unremarkable thoroughfare. Its forgotten history has much of interest including an armed student revolt.
Castle Upton – An eventful history including the Knights Hospitaller, the Norton Family, the Upton Family and the Hearts of Steel
Wilson’s Court is a neglected narrow Belfast alley. It was once such a populous, busy and important thoroughfare!
The tale of the ancient hill of Donegore, St John’s Church and its “corpse house”, and the “End of the World”
York Street – Once “Belfast’s Noblest Street” with a history of commercial success, Blitz devastation , decline and, lately, regeneration
Temple Cooey and St Cooey’s Wells have been a pilgrimage site from, at least, the 13th century with an annual pilgrimage every June
The Carrick-a-Rede rope bridge, one of Co. Antrim’s most popular tourist attractions, spans a gap of 66ft to the tiny island of Carrickarede.
Completed in 1685, Belfast’s Long Bridge spanned the River Lagan featuring 21 arches and with a length of 2,562 feet. This is its story.
The small County Antrim village of Armoy, now known worldwide for road racing, boasts an wealth of historical stories
Belfast must have been an interesting town in the 18th and 19th centuries with unique signs. Today, sign painting has become almost a lost art
The story of the Cookstown Ghost and the haunting of the grocery shop on Old Town Hill which attracted huge public interest in November 1874.
As a historic commercial street leading from Belfast city centre to the Lagan, High Street can be viewed as the ‘birthplace’ of the town.