Today we talked about our research we had carried out at home.  We talked to our parents and grandparents to find out information about the area we live in.

Louise –  My daddy and my granda were brought up a few fields away from the house where we live now.  Granda was born at home, in the Townland of Lurgy in 1927 and died in the same townland in 2004.

Kate – At the top of the hill behind our house we can see far, far away.  We can see the Antrim Hills, the Sperrin mountains, the Mourne mountains and lots of drumlins.  There is a large stone which was a megalithic tomb.  A megalithic tomb is a place where people were buried many years ago and which is marked by stones.

Jessica – Tullyhogue Fort was used for crowning the O’Neill Family.  The stone chair stood on a hill side until Lord Mountjoy came with the Elizabethan ruling that all Irish symbols of clans would be destroyed.

Lydia – We live opposite daddy’s home farm which was owned by my great granda, my great granny still lives in the farmhouse.

Lauren – I live at 29 Rockdale Road Sandholes, my house is a bungalow with a porch at the front.  We have a shed, which my dad keeps tractors in.  My house was built in 1999, six years before I was born.  My house has lots of old trees around it.

Katie – Our house used to belong to my great grandparents who were called Willie and May Moore.  My granny Irwin and 9 of her brothers and sisters lived with them.  My great granda was a blacksmith and he did his work in the shed in the back yard.  My mum and dad have lived in this house for 11 years and before that my great grandparents had lived there for over 50 years.  My mum and dad renovated the house.

Jasmine – The old church opposite our house was destroyed in the civil war in 1641.  Our house is called Donaghendry House, the roads near us are called the Shanky Road and High Cross Road.  I live near a small forest called ‘The Glen’.

Carys – There is a standing stone opposite our house.  It is 3 metres tall, nobody knows what it was there for, but it has to be there for a reason, maybe this is something I could do more research on.

These are photographs of our journals showing our research, which we carried out at home.

We have drawn pictures of around our houses and things of interest, which we see everyday but do not always take notice of.  Some of us also completed family trees.