placenamesTullycarnet
Tulaigh Charnáin
Tullycarnet developed as a twentieth-century housing estate and became home to a long-running storytelling group.
The name
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Recorded forms
- Tulaigh Charnáin · Irish · main form · validated name
- Tullycarnet · English · main form
Place & story
Building the estate
The Housing Trust developed Tullycarnet between 1966 and 1970, with the new Northern Ireland Housing Executive completing work in the early 1970s. Earlier maps show a landscape of houses and estates before Belfast expanded eastwards. The former Belfast–Comber railway also crossed the area; its route later became the Comber Greenway. Tullycarnet transferred from Castlereagh to Belfast council administration in 2015. [2]
The Tullycarnet Yarnspinners
Jim Armstrong helped establish the Tullycarnet Yarnspinners after seeing storyteller Liz Weir at the Linen Hall Library. The group first met at Tullycarnet Library in February 1991, with support from librarian Adrienne Adair. After Jim’s death, Peg Armstrong continued running the sessions until 2013. Their son Roger later founded the Armstrong Storytelling Trust in their memory. [3]
Geographic information
- Place type
- Population centre
- County
- Down
- Barony
- Castlereagh Lower
- Civil parish
- Knockbreda
- Within
- Tullycarnet
- Coordinates
- 54.58606, -5.84963 (approximate)
- Logainm ID
- 1413301 ↗
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Tullycarnet. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Tullycarnet Place Shaping Plan, December 2024, area profile · Community Places
- Who We Are: Jim, Peg and Roger Armstrong · Roger Armstrong / Armstrong Storytelling Trust
Name record retrieved 2026-10-25 · Source record modified 2019-10-08. How this page was prepared.