UTV's popular 'Lesser Spotted Ulster' is coming to the Tyrone Fermanagh border and visiting the small village of Kilskeery. Joe Mahon takes to the road and visits Kilskeery on the where he does a bit of thrashing about, stalks deer and partakes in some grave-rubbing, not robbing! The programme will be aired tomorrow evening (Thursday) at 7:30.
This week Joe Mahon visits the parish of Kilskeery on the border between Tyrone and Fermanagh. The area around the village of Trillick is a wonderful resource for archaeologists and historians having been continuously inhabited from the Beaker people about 4,000 years ago right through to the present time. Joe begins his exploration in a very picturesque graveyard that goes back a mere 400 years and discovers a unique style of masonry in the Celtic Crosses of the Braid under the guidance of local historian Barney McAnespey. One of the highlights of the programme has to be a demonstration of threshing using an ancient Garvie, a kind of travelling agricultural circus that still gets the whole village out anxious to lend a hand. In the same co-operative spirit, Joe offers to help Eric Irvine finish off a fence that encloses his herd of red deer and a little stalking ensues in the company of John Hetherington.