Mathuna wrote: > I recently bought a postcard on ebay with scenes of Carnlough. On the > reverse is written "Drumalla House is one of the very ancient buildings > of the town and is a delightful Holiday Home for factory girls." Could > I have suggestions please as to how old this card might be, and perhaps > an explanation about the "factory girls". > > Thanks. http://www.nzghosts.co.nz/Ireland3.htm Drumalla House I will stray out of Belfast to Carnlough where I had many a great holiday at Drumalla House....there was a walled garden at the rear of the house and a high locked gateway through to it......vegetables were grown inside that garden...one day a pal and I saw two nuns walking in it...we spoke of this to Saidie Patterson the warden.....she told us that the only person with a key to that garden was a man who tended the growing crops......a night later a white robed nun was seen in the old part of the house....no facial features, glowing white and a chain and crucifix visible........on further questioning there had been nuns in that part of Carnlough a long time ago.......wooooooh giannineo http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~donegal/killygarvanbmdnotices.htm June 19 1857 On the 15th inst., at Drumalla House, Rathmullan, the wife of CAPTAIN G.A. BEDFORD, R.N., of a daughter October 29 1858 On the 24th inst., at Drumalla House, Rathmullan, the wife of CAPTAIN G.A. BEDFORD, R.N., of a son http://www.ulsterhistory.co.uk/dictionary/biogsMac1.htm McCOUBREY, MARGARET 1880-1955 Margaret McCoubrey was born in Eldersley, near Glasgow. At the age of twelve she began working for a men's outfitters shop in Glasgow, though she continued her education at night school. In 1896 she qualified as a junior shorthand typist, and three years later became secretary to the managing director of the first private telephone service in Scotland. She taught in the Skerries Business Training College, of which she became deputy head mistress at the age of twenty-four. She married and came to live in Belfast in 1905. She joined the Suffragette Movement in 1910, and was an active militant. At the outbreak of the First World War she joined the peace movement, and gave refuge to conscientious objectors. She became general secretary of the Co-Operative Guild, and from 1910 to 1916 was elected onto the board of management. During this period she sat on all the sub-committees in turn, and she taught economics and the history of the Co-Operative Society in the educational department. In the 1920s she took a one-year course in economics at Manchester University. She contributed articles to many periodicals, including the Co-Op magazine, the Wheat Sheaf, and she had a weekly column in the Co-Op News. A history of the Co-Op movement by her was unfinished at the time of her death. She was an active member of the independent Labour party, and in 1920 was elected Labour councillor for Dock ward. In 1933 she went to live in Carnlough, County Antrim, where she ran Drumalla House as a non-profit making base for members of the Belfast Girl's Club Union to come on holiday. [Reminiscence by Elizabeth Hutchinson] http://www.belfastforum.co.uk/index.php?topic=4716.15 Drumalla House was bought for holidays for mill girls from Belfast.I believe it is now owned by an Education Authority. Great place... I had about 4 holidays in the 60's at Drumalla with my junior badminton club.I did not get to know any of the locals well, other than they would remember us from year to year in shops... « Last Edit: July 29, 2007, 11:25:39 AM by giannineo »