TheGallaghers showed me wonderful newspaper cuttings evoking a vanished world in which the factory hooter was sounded triumphantly to celebrate the village team's victory in a competition in Belfast.
TheGallaghers would argue that is because Irish players - like Eoin Morgan in the present day - tend to be poached by England with the promise of test match cricket at the highest level... and the money and recognition that go with it.
Plans for the landfill site show that the boundary will be 30 metres from the nearest house and Gallaghers Estates, which owns the land, says it may have to review its plans if the project goes ahead.