Guided Tours Ireland

09/06/2025

09/06/2025

25/05/2025

25/05/2025

🏌️‍♂️ Lakeland Open 2025 – A Weekend of Golf Not to Be Missed! ⛳

Mark your calendars for Saturday 5th & Sunday 6th July as the much-anticipated annual Lakeland Open returns for another fantastic weekend of competitive golf in Fermanagh.

📍 Day 1 – Castle Hume Golf Resort
📍 Day 2 – Enniskillen Golf Club

Two stunning courses. One unforgettable weekend.

🎯 Open to all who enjoy the game – book your tee times now!

📞 To enter, contact Match & Handicap Secretary Patricia on 07703 739478

Don’t miss your chance to be part of this highlight on the local golfing calendar!
https://www.fermanaghlakelands.com/whats-on/lakeland-open-p965531

25/05/2025

Fiddlers Green International Festival🎻🎶

Get your tickets for the Fiddler’s Green Festival in the charming village of Rostrevor!
Get ready for an unforgettable celebration of traditional music, arts and crafts, scenic mountain walks, and a whole lot more!

📍 Rostrevor
📅 16 July 2025 - 20 July 2025

Read more and get your tickets below 👇
https://www.visitmournemountains.co.uk/whats-on/fiddlers-green-international-festival-p799871

25/05/2025

25/05/2025

25/05/2025

Lobster did a full circle. Caught onboard Huntress then cooked and made into a beautiful sandwich roll by the amazing team at lightfoot_bangor to then come back to Huntress to be enjoyed! 10/10 food!

25/05/2025

There’s tea, and then there’s therapy made of steam and silence.

25/05/2025

What’s a bandle?
A bandle, or “bann-lámh“, was a linear unit of measurement used in Ireland, particularly for measuring linen. It measured around 2 feet or 24 inches but could vary from place to place, ranging between 20 and 30 inches. Hely Dutton noted in 1808 that a bandle in Galway was 30 inches, while in Limerick it was 21 inches.

In Clare, the measurement was sometimes made by using seven fingers four times, but more often, a tool was used to perform the measurement. An entry in the Schools’ Folklore Collection (c.1937) describes how old people in Ballinderreen, Co. Galway, kept a stick in their homes called a bandle, which they used to measure flannel. But in some places, there was a communal tool for measuring cloth, as in the case of Noughaval – a village on the southern edge of the Burren lowlands in Co. Clare, where a lone stone pillar (pictured here) stands by the roadside. It is known variously as the market stone, bandle stone, bandle cross and market cross.

The circumference of the Noughaval stone is 72 inches, which aligns well with the 24-inch bandle, as one full turn of fabric around the stone equals 72 inches or 3 bandles. This also equals 2 yards since a yard is 36 inches, and cloth was also often measured in yards. A type of coarse, narrow linen known as “bandle cloth” or “bandle linen” continued to be produced in parts of Clare throughout the 18th and 19th centuries.

It’s important to note that before the Weights and Measures Act of 1824, Irish people used their own systems of measurement, which were distinct from the British imperial system. Irish inches and yards were longer than the imperial units, but could vary depending on location. The inch and yard measurements used here are based on the post-1824 imperial system, and the actual measurements that the Noughaval stone was based on would likely have been influenced by older Irish practices, which may not directly correspond to imperial units.

Read more about the bandle stone and Noughaval’s lost settlement 👉 https://irishheritagenews.ie/bandle-stone-at-noughaval-clare-evidence-of-a-medieval-market-settlement/
Field Monument Advisor Programme Co. Clare Clare Libraries