Possibly originally followed a meandering river that’s since dried up?
It’s not a panhandle into NI, it’s the other way around.
The wattlebridge and drumully areas were particularly strong protestant areas, and would have been incorporated into the Northern Ireland to increase the protestant majority.
The border follows established county borders.
It wouldn’t have mattered so much until partition came along and changed it from a county boundary to an “international” border. Even then, people probably weren’t to bothered as the boundary commission was sure to sort it out. After that, it read a bit of a mess.
It’s someones farm
That area is called colmans island and the Gardaí can’t drive into it , look at the roads !. The army use to use helicopters to put in troops to search the area , that was during the troubles
Too many Catholics
The place is called Drummully and it has its own very detailed Wikipedia page:
That bottleneck is so small that if you fall over sideways you end up in a different country.
There’s a stretch of long straight road around there where the lads meet up to drive their cars round in circles like eejits. A friend of mine rang the guards one time because the lads were causing a hold-up. The guards went “Aye we know they’re there, but they’re just inside the North so we can’t touch them”
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It’s to stop the North floating away
Possibly originally followed a meandering river that’s since dried up?
It’s not a panhandle into NI, it’s the other way around.
The wattlebridge and drumully areas were particularly strong protestant areas, and would have been incorporated into the Northern Ireland to increase the protestant majority.
The border follows established county borders.
It wouldn’t have mattered so much until partition came along and changed it from a county boundary to an “international” border. Even then, people probably weren’t to bothered as the boundary commission was sure to sort it out. After that, it read a bit of a mess.
It’s someones farm
That area is called colmans island and the Gardaí can’t drive into it , look at the roads !. The army use to use helicopters to put in troops to search the area , that was during the troubles
Too many Catholics
The place is called Drummully and it has its own very detailed Wikipedia page:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drummully
Long story short, “it’s complicated.”
That bottleneck is so small that if you fall over sideways you end up in a different country.
There’s a stretch of long straight road around there where the lads meet up to drive their cars round in circles like eejits. A friend of mine rang the guards one time because the lads were causing a hold-up. The guards went “Aye we know they’re there, but they’re just inside the North so we can’t touch them”
What border?