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On the Lough road leading to the Loughmourne reservoir.There is car parking at N 54 45.536 W 005 48.021.
The cache is a small tablock box containing a logbook, pencil and sharpener and some small swops.
I chose the name because I am placing this cache on my last day ever at Eden Primary school.
The cache is on the side of the road and there is no need to go on private property.
some interesting local information .....
Still Waters Run Deep at Loughmourne
Dr David Hume looks at forgotten history in a small rural community.
You will be forgiven if you have never heard of Loughmourne. Even though it is a legendary place. Loughmourne lies to the north of Carrickfergus, on the inland road towards Gleno, and to the west of the village of Ballycarry. There is no centre and no village, just a crossroads with a church nearby, and the lough further along the road.
It is a rural landscape, dotted with farms and houses, the population increased by livestock which graze contentedly in the fields. The Presbyterian Church is typically Scottish in its austere design, and the area takes its name from the lough.
Beneath the surface, Loughmourne has a considerable history. History surrounds those buried in the church cemetery. Tommy Bryans, the Bard of Beltoy, and one of a lost generation of local folk poets who entertained with locally-inspired verse, is among the dead.
The congregation of Presbyterians which used to worship at Loughmourne, long before the present church was built, were Covenanters. In 1772, most of them boarded a ship bound for South Carolina.
They were part of a migration movement of five ships, led by Rev William Martin of Ballymoney. Their sons would later take part in the American Revolution.
A short distance from the main road, running from the church, the waters of Lough Mourne reservoir can be seen. Taken over by the Belfast Water Commissioners to supply water to Belfast in the latter part of the 19th century, the reservoir used the lake, which has provided Loughmourne's enduring status. The folk stories were quite clear about how it came to be.
According to legend there had been a village. One day a peddlar came into the area, selling matches to make a living. Nobody in Loughmourne would buy from him, and he was turned away.
The peddler took this badly and, amid mirth from locals, cursed the place, informing them that before the next morning the village would be gone.
Hardly had he left or the derisory laughter died away, than eels began to appear inside the houses of the village. Eels were quickly followed by water, which rose until the village had disappeared under the lough as it now is.
An interesting tale and a legend that, like many others, has some factual basis.
In the last years of the 19th century, when the Water Commissioners were draining the lough in preparation for engineering work, the remains of five crannogs (ancient island dwellings) emerged as the water went down.
Further drought in the early 1900s afforded another view of the crannogs, four linked by a causeway to the shore, and the other to the distance beyond.
Excavations were carried out and much material of interest was recovered, including items of jewellery, homeware, and animal bones. A canoe also emerged from the mud.
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Frira cnprf jrfg sebz n i !!