Toome Bar are undoubtedly characteristic specimens of the Bronze Age weapons; but then the evidence that they are crannog relics at all is so slender that for determinative purposes they may be considered valueless.
Too late are they, For young Roddy McCorley goes to die on the bridge of Toome today.
To Antrim town, he led them to the fray, But young Roddy McCorley goes to die on the bridge of Toome today.
True to the last, he treads the upwards way, And young Roddy McCorley goes to die on the bridge of Toome today.
Oh Ireland, Mother Ireland, you love them still the best The fearless brave who fighting fall upon your hapless breast, But never a one of all your dead more bravely fell in fray, Than he who marches to his fate on the bridge of Toome today.
At this place Lough Neagh presents the appearance of a great V, having the space between the points filled with a sand-bank, known as Toome bar, and which is almost invariably covered with from two to three feet of water.
The townland of this name is in the parish of Craigs, barony of Toome lower; it contains within it a low-lying piece of land, the former bed of a lake that was drained towards the close of the last century.
The remaining bronze weapons from Toome Bar, now in the Museum, R.
The bridge which spans the river at Toome forms a connecting link between the counties Antrim and Derry.
Three canoes were found at Toome Bar; the one figured (plate IV.
In the townland of Lisnahunshin, parish of Craigs, barony of Toome lower, and four miles N.
At Toome Bar was found an anchor or grappling instrument twenty-one inches long, but being formed of iron it should be viewed as comparatively modern (plate IV.
The French king offered vpon the toome of the said archbishop Thomas, a rich cup of gold; and gaue to the moonks there an hundred tuns of wine to be receiued yearelie of his gift for euer at Poissie in France.
England to visit the toome of archbishop Thomas Becket as he had before time vowed.
Small epitaph now serues, to decke this toome of statelie king: And he who whilome thought whole earth could scarse his mind content, In little roome hath roome at large, that serues now life is spent.
Therefore, while Turlogh Luinech O'Neill tarried at Toome to watch what passed in the latter region, Captain Merriman strengthened Coleraine and the forts on the Bann in order to hold the former.
After leaving Dunluce she had been kept close prisoner inToome Castle by her old step-dame, despite her father's protest, who had no more voice in his own house than a dog and was not sorry to escape from it to Castleroe.
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