Hi. I live in the Rown land of Ballintaggart my Road address is 30 Drumnasoo Road Portadown BT62 4EU. Our road was called Ballintaggart lane before he Council changed it. My uncles and grandfather worked ar Troughtons quarry and my uncle Micheal worked on the tar plant which was next to a group of palm trees surrounding the giants grave as everyone locally new it. They were not allowed to go near it with the machinery and this was a strick rule by the land owner TG Troughton. Some how a company from England bought the quarry off Troughtons and started to expand it at an alarming rate because of the building of the M1. That’s whe the tomb went missing and my only living uncle thought it had been crushed for stone as he had left Troughtons at that stage. Recently he found out it was actually moved to Belfast and still exists. As he’s probably one of the oldest people who remember it and he played around it when a child I thought I’d email you and see if you could email me any photos and reports which where carried out on the Tomb back in the sixties so I can show them to him. I have actually found the path of the old road from the tomb in a north easterly direction by accident 15 years ago while doing digger work for my neighbouring farmer who’s ground runs into Troughtons. There has been a lot of interest in the tomb recently which is brilliant as it’s bringing our community together and it’s a pleasant surprise to discover your Townland had one of the oldest Court tombs in Ireland. Iv registered for this site and waiting on the password so I’ll log in once I get time. Thanks Martin
Something is not right. This message is just to keep things from messing up down the road