Tag: Slieve Rushin Industrial heritage
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Willie Lunney’s Turning Point
I am intrigued by the idea of this man who, through his connection to the southwest Fermanagh landscape, epitomised toil, risk and innovation in a time of great industrial change a hundred and fifty years ago. All we know about Willie Lunney comes from a scrap of oral folk memory, but it’s enough to inform…
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Slieve Rushen’s Lost Millstones
Slieve Rushen is a place apart. From its 1200 ft summit the view of the surrounding countryside is exhilarating. From here its massif, imagined as an island, rises above a lowland green sea, its broad summit enabling and unifying rather than impeding communications between the surrounding small settlements strung around its base, their backs to…