Hello Dave, Thanks so much for sending that link! I almost didn't click on it, but I'm extremely happy that I did! The Boarder Roads to Memories & Reconciliation website contains dozens of interviews with local people who provide their experiences with the boarder over the years, from the fond memories of childhood smuggling of a bit of bread to the later and much darker days of The Troubles. There's even a 25 minute documentary on how the closing of so many crossing points around Roslea/Rosslea had such a negative impact to the economies on both County Fermanagh and County Monaghan. http://www.borderroadmemories.com/search-border-crossings/individual-crossing/?id=bc103 John in NC On 2015/04/25 03:20 , Dave H via wrote: > While not answering your question Carl I did come across this site.. > http://www.borderroadmemories.com/image-galleries/?keyword&county=Fermanagh&bordertype&imagetype > > Many people will drive these roads on not spot anything.. I can see it > plainly in most!! > > What am I on about?? The county line! > > In many of these you can clearly see where one county ends and next > starts and into which one doing research should really look at... > > Where does one county end and next start?? Just look at the difference > on road surface!! or where road markings end, or where weeds in middle > of road stops... > > With that in mind one should clearly see how simple it was for one > person to live in one county and a son etc in next and even today these > are where Republic of Ireland ends and Northern Ireland starts and you > can clearly see the high security border controls, passport controllers, > high security fences and how difficult it is to get from one county to > next and it would have been just as difficult for one's kin.. > > .. the first one shows Fermanagh/Monaghan and you can see how simple it > is for one to be in Monaghan and an ancestor in Fermanagh, or to have > land in both etc. > > DH (bridgehunting!) > > > > > > > > On 25/04/2015 04:07, Carl Maguire via wrote: >> Not exactly genealogy related yet... >> Might be though. >> Is there/was there a seven arch bridge in Co. Fermanagh? > > --- > This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software. > http://www.avast.com > > ================================== > > https://www.google.ie/ > ================================== > http://www.irishtimes.com/ancestor/placenames/ > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to FERMANAGH-GOLD-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message >

Strange you mention Roslea... it was around there that there was a house which the border ran through. The front of house was in Republic and back of house in N.I. and a lot of stuff was "interchanged" in that house. If N.I police raided everyone just went into front rooms.. in Gardai raided everyone went to back rooms and as we know the 2 didn't work together. Haven't checked that site, just thought it was good to show how one member of a family could live in one county and another in next field be in another county. DH On 25/04/2015 21:26, John Olson-Kennedy wrote: > Hello Dave, > > Thanks so much for sending that link! I almost didn't click on it, > but I'm extremely happy that I did! The Boarder Roads to Memories & > Reconciliation website contains dozens of interviews with local people > who provide their experiences with the boarder over the years, from > the fond memories of childhood smuggling of a bit of bread to the > later and much darker days of The Troubles. There's even a 25 minute > documentary on how the closing of so many crossing points around > Roslea/Rosslea had such a negative impact to the economies on both > County Fermanagh and County Monaghan. > http://www.borderroadmemories.com/search-border-crossings/individual-crossing/?id=bc103 > > > John in NC --- This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software. http://www.avast.com