As a teenager I lived in 41 Moneybrannon Road, Aghadowey, Coleraine, NI. Our house was one of two remaining of the Black Row as it was known, and a few wallsteads surrounding indicate that there were probably at least a couple more. There was a strange hollow ring when you stepped on the concrete yard and someone suggested once we had a cellar - but that would have been only found in grand houses and this was a two up two down. There was a brick feature arch around a window and we wondered if it was a carriage house, as a former resident had a great ghost story about a phantom horse that nuzzled the door beside it at midnight. A relative also had an ancestor named Magee/McGee who was on census as in the house next to the old lady with the ghost story - I wonder if census collectors in 1901 and 1911 listed the houses in order of visitation, or of location. If anyone who knows the history of these dwellings can supply info on the residents, etc we'd be most grateful. In the seventies this was the property of landlord Adam Black, and we believe his farm at Keely House may have been in the possession of the Orr Family who connected also to Lizard Manor in the late 1800s.
