Overlooking the River Mourne: Four Centuries of Family Farms in Edymore and Cavanlee Co. Tyrone

The close ties between the people and the land in Ulster has only within the last two generations, been replaced by a more urban ‘modern’ lifestyle. This study of the farms and farming families, on two thousand acres of hilly terrain in two adjacent townlands, Edymore and Cavanalee, south-east of Strabane and overlooking the River Mourne, is a model for local studies.

The story is based on research in one of the greatest collections of estate records in Britain or Ireland, the Abercorn Pape...