Joe travels to Ballykelly, a village in County Derry in
the second part of this look into the area's heritage. Joe explains how the
fertile farming land between Ballykelly and the sea at Lough Foyle was once
underwater. Andy Sides recounts how the land was reclaimed to be farmed on.
Adrian Barr talks Joe through the problems of having to pump water off his
farmland which is beneath sea level behind the man-made dams which allowed the
land to be reclaimed.
Jim Barr recalls the World Ploughing Championship which
was held on his land. Joe recounts some of the history of the local airfield,
RAF Ballykelly, and its wartime role and association with Shackleton bombers.
Joe visits the Shackleton and Aviation Museum, where Norman Thorpe tells him
about the famous tractor inventor and Ireland's first aviator, Harry Ferguson,
crashing his plane on the beach outside.
At the disused RAF
Ballykelly, John McFarlane and Norman give Joe a tour of the huge hangar and
tell him tales of Paddy the Pigeon, who was awarded the Dickin Medal for animal
bravery during World War II.