Tamhnach an tSalainn

Tamhnach an tSalainn, "the field of salt," refers to the coastal saltworks that gave this townland its Irish identity. The name derives from fields along the estuary that flooded with seawater, leaving salt deposits that local people harvested for centuries before the English arrived. The Plantation of Ulster in 1611 transformed the landscape. Reverend Alexander Conyngham, the first Church of ...