On my third day I walked up to Derrybeg. Essentially the main road is an undulating string upon which houses, empty blocks and commercial properties perch themselves with one tiny townland merging into another. The local church is in Derrybeg and I wanted to access church records. There are two churches, a closed one and a replacement built in […]
My new B&B was on the main road on which housing and commercial businesses were well strung out and interspersed with closed businesses and some derelict houses. This Belfast born writer has some opinions about the situation. http://seanhillenblog.com/2015/01/09/bunbeg-once-pretty-now-disfigured/ The area is known as a gaeltacht region meaning Irish is the predominant language and the Irish government […]
The next day I walked to the cemetery which involved walking down the main road, taking the first left turn, walking past a few houses and then past acres of nothing apart from some sports fields, an electrically fenced field allowing ground dwelling birds to breed without interference from predators, a golf clubhouse and course and […]
Information about my Irish ancestors is thin on the ground. Little is known about the ones from Donegal but even that is far superior to that known about those further south in Ireland to the extent that I only went to Donegal. My great grandmother named her house in Sydney Bunbeg and there was a suggestion that […]