Ould Lammas Fair Ould Lammas Fair The Auld Lammas Fair is a traditional fair held in Ballycastle, County Antrim, Northern Ireland every year on the last Monday and Tuesday of August. It is associated with the Lammas harvest festival. The fair has been running for nearly 400 years, dating back to the 17th century. Various goods are traditionally sold at the fair. These include livestock and traditional foods such as Yellowman, a local variant of honeycomb and dulse, a type of edible seaweed. A ballad written by local shopkeeper and bog-oak carver John Henry MacAuley enhanced the local fame of the fair. MacAuley
Edible-nest swiftlet is darker with a rump that is less obviously paler. Several calls are uttered including a loud, rattling call used for echolocation in dark caves. There are six subspecies of the edible-nest swiftlet: German's swiftlet ("Aerodramus germani"), with two subspecies "germani" and "amechanus", was formerly considered to be conspecific with the edible-nest swiftlet, but is now often considered to be a separate species. It occurs in the Malay Peninsula, central Thailand, coastal Vietnam and Cambodia, Hainan, northern Borneo and parts of the Philippines. The edible-nest swiftlet feeds over a range of habitats from coastal areas to the mountains, occurring up