An outreach program garnering oral history and local folklore, and in particular details on vernacular buildings and their inhabitants, ran throughout the excavations. This greatly helped to flesh out the excavation results while also keeping the community updated on the team’s work

For example, the local name for the laneway at Ballyconra 6 was reported to be Butler’s Lane. This refers to the name of a family currently living on the lane and whose forebears emigrated to America in the late nineteenth century, following the burning down of the local mill which provided much employment in the local community.

A photograph of the Butler family dating to the late nineteenth century (thought to be c.1893) was kindly provided by Mr Tommy Butler Snr. The image was taken in front of a cottage shown on the 25-inch Ordnance Survey map (1901) 330m east of the site at a sharp bend in the lane.