Dungiven II

I am trying to save some pictures for you to see. Yesturday when we were at the New Grange place Some people had carved their name inside the special chamber before anyone had started to preserve it back in the 1800's and right there next to the most sacred area was the name: J Hull. I guess it was fate or something.
Today while we went around visiting we talk to a man who said that someone had sold the one acre lot that is where the original Hull/Hillfoot farmhouse is for 240,000 pounds or about 400,000 dollars and there would soon be a new house there. They passed a new zoning rule that you can't build in the country unless it is your own farm or it is your child or it replaces an old home. I guess progress is coming to Northern Ireland. The house was bought including the land for 430 pounds back in 1887 for the first time after leasing it for almost a hundred years. The price has gone up.
We made some headway in finding some of the other lines such as Millars and Smyths and tomorrow we are getting together with a bunch of the neighbors for dinner and we will pick all of their brains for a few hours. Janet and Wilf are feeding us way too well, we will need to diet for sure after this week. We visited Betty and Davey who are distant cousins through the Douglas family, Robert Hull, the brother of Thomas Hull II, and they were very nice and helpful. I will try to upload some pictures and if I can't I will send them to Robert for his expert help. We are going to church at the Bovevagh Presbyterian tomorrow. That is where Thomas Hull I and his family went up until the 1950's. Talk to you tomorrow. Dan