IMAGES TAKEN NEAR TO
Gallan Road, STRABANE, BT82 8PG
Introduction
This page details the photographs taken nearby to Gallan Road, BT82 8PG by members of the Geograph project.
The Geograph project started in 2005 with the aim of publishing, organising and preserving representative images for every square kilometre of Great Britain, Ireland and the Isle of Man.
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Image Map
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Image Listing (8 Images Found)
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Image
Details
Distance
1
Dwelling at Meenashesk
This cottage would have originally have had a thatched roof
Image: © Kenneth Allen
Taken: 27 Jun 2006
0.19 miles
2
Ligfordrum Townland
Looking WSW in the direction of Meenashesk Mountain
Image: © Kenneth Allen
Taken: 25 Nov 2014
0.19 miles
3
Cottage, Ligfordrum
Pictured along Gallan Road
Image: © Kenneth Allen
Taken: 25 Nov 2014
0.23 miles
5
"Maggie Ballantine's" revisited - 52 years later!!
The lane was always rough but the house seemed much bigger. There was always smoke coming out of the chimney and sometimes the door. At just over three quarters a mile away it seemed an endless and fearful journey for a seven year old en route to borrow some tea for his granny to cater for unscheduled guests. Maggie who had little or nothing never refused. I cannot imagine a more poignant geograph moment and that's the truth.
Image: © Des Colhoun
Taken: 13 May 2007
0.25 miles
6
Maggie Ballantine's "single-roomed cabin" today.
The original byre remains can be seen to the right. Historically this was probably built around 1845 and is referred to as a famine house when the potato crops failed due to blight. The dwelling was a single-roomed cabin and built in the style of the Scottish dwelling. The proximity of the byre or cattle shed provided some "central heating" for the residents of the cabin. On various occasions in the 1950's I visited this house with my brother and granny when it was inhabited by Maggie Ballantine and her four brothers. The Ballantine's loved to have a laugh and there always was one provided the fire could be maintained. The fire was the focus and its maintenance was paramount.
Image: © Des Colhoun
Taken: 13 May 2007
0.25 miles
7
Maggie's fire and hearth.
The pinkish walls have been in evidence since 1957. Maggie sat at the right hand of the fire and wore a pinkish-coloured petticoat. She shared the cabin with four brothers whom she reared after the early death of her parents. Their names were William, Alec, James and the youngest, Albert. Maggie had a sister who lived in Canada and who occasionally sent letters and parcels to Maggie and her brothers . When a letter from abroad would arrive it would be brought to my granny who would read it for them as illiteracy or lack of spectacles reigned. Decency however was always present.
Image: © Des Colhoun
Taken: 13 May 2007
0.25 miles
8
Outlook from Ballantine's Tyrone cabin.
The daylight of today was marred on my last visit in the 50's by the midden which denied the daylight from entering. To the right-hand side of the door stood a churn, it was painted red and used for the weekly ritual of butter making. I remember a brood of young turkeys housed in a wire cage by the window. Maggie fed the turkeys on a diet of nettles and meal.
Image: © Des Colhoun
Taken: 13 May 2007
0.25 miles