My sister is getting married soon, I was buying her wedding pressie today. She is getting married to a bloke from Katesbridge, which is a small townland on the road to Newcastle from Banbridge.
I was talking to him about the origin of the name Katesbridge. He has been told that there was a crowd of roadworkers working on a bridge across the Bann at the area, and there was a woman who owned the bar nearby called Kate. Every day Kate used to feed and water the workers, and when they had completed the job, they named the bridge after her.
Stephen at Carisenda talks about Coney Island in Lough Neagh, we used to go camping on Coney on the boat from Portadown. There is a full time warden on Coney paid by the National Trust, the bloke who used to do it was a divorcee who decided to live on Coney for a few years in solitary isolation. What we call here in Norn Iron as getting the head showered.