Interactive map of Area around Wilford:
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The Leap
Natural waterfall between Furnace Lough & Lough Feeagh used by salmon & trout. The 2004 pictures show the Burrishoole fish trapping facility built in 1959.
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Rockfleet Castle
Rockfleet Castle or Carraigahowley Castle famously associated with Gráinne O’Malley, the pirate queen and chieftain of the clan O’Malley.
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Newport
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Wilford Lodge
Home of Arthur & Catherine Oram & their children John, Arthur “Attie”, Gretta, Emily, James & Isa.
After the death of Catherine in 1920 Wilford Lodge was sold to a member, or ex-member of the British army. Not surprisingly the house was soon burnt down. We (Chris and Carolyn) remember how in 1961 our grandfather James stood in the mossy ruin announcing “This was the room I was born in”. Despite leaving Wilford in 1906 James kept his Irish accent that quickly broadened as he was greeted by locals who recognised him. The site was redeveloped in the early 2000s.
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Burrishoole Farmhouse
John Oram 1824-1907 built this when he first came to Ireland. William Rose lived here while Arthur was resident at Wilford.
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Burrishoole Friary
A late Gothic relic, even in 1850, of what must have been among the most striking buildings in the countryside of pre-Tudor Ireland.[1]
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Achill Island
Just to the West on the centre edge of the map above. For landscape pictures see.[1]
Man with Donkey and Panniers 1950, collecting peat sod for burning, Achill Island:
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