Birthplace of the Bramley in Northern Ireland features in festival celebrations
The birth place of the Bramley apple in Northern Ireland is set to be celebrated as part of an upcoming festival.
There are some 6,000 acres of apple orchards, and 250 growers in Armagh continuing the long tradition of growing the fruit in Ireland which can be traced back to the Celts in 3000BC
Those ancient people are believe to have used crab apples and venerated apple trees, levelling fines to those who would cut one down.
The county continues to celebrate apples with the annual Armagh Food and Cider Festival every September with a programme of events which this year includes a sensory orchard tour, cooking workshops, supper clubs, cider tastings, and artisan markets.
A lynchpin of the event is John Nicholson of Crannagael House, whose ancestor brought the first Bramley seedling across the Irish Sea.
The Bramley is thought to have first emerged in 1809 and started to become renowned because of Henry Merryweather in Southwell, Nottinghamshire.
Nicholson’s great grandfather...
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