We have many fine examples of ancient castle ruins in our area (Bagenal’s certainly NOT being one of them!) and the one I write of now is about five miles southwest of the border at Forkhill. It is
Castle Roche, Co Louth
History
Oisin & S. Patrick
‘It wus in the days of Oisin, an’ Patrick was sore tormented for iverything that he’d be buildin’ on the Brague wud be down in the mornin’.
An’ Oisin wus jist back from the lan’ of niver die, where he might have been livin’ still, only that he liked Ireland better. An’ that’s that.
Bagenal Dynasty I
Although the Bagenal dynasty stretched into the seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries in Newry, the only men to impact on the larger Irish stage were the first and second, Nicholas and his son Henry.
1915 Army Recruits: D-F
Hi folks! After many torturous attempts to recover lost data and programmes, I’m back. Hope this works!
Castle Street a century ago
Streets of Yesteryear
1913 Castle Street
7 James Kelly
9 Margaret Doherty
11 William McShane
13 Mary McAnulty
15 William McGreavey
17 Robert Curran
19 Henry Curran
21 Patrick Murphy
23 Annie McGrath
25 William Nolan
27 Patrick McCartney
29 James McDonnell
31 Margaret Rowentree
33 Michael McKevitt, Pub
37a Alice Boyle
39 Henry Lennon
51 Patrick Heaney
53 William O’Gorman
55 Brian Bannon
59 Rosaleen Hughes
61 Mary Rafferty
65 Kathleen Hanratty
67 Catherine Toman
69 Francis Price
71 Patrick Carroll
73 Patrick Smyth
18 Eugene McAteer, Grocer
20 Bernard McAteer
22 Hugh King
ARTHUR McCANN, VICTORIA BAKERY
34 P Campbell, Shoes
36 Henry Butterfield
38 Annie Patterson
40 James Patterson
48 Kathleen McGuigan
50 Bro John V Mullins
Dr William Drennan
In the final decades of the eighteenth century the radical opposition in
Adavoyle Ambush
The photo below is of the long-abandoned Adavoyle Railway Station, the one through which De Valera was ‘deported’ by the RUC that time he was arrested at the
St Bridget’s Cross
Faughart today is best known for its shrine to Saint Bridget. The original ‘Calvary’ built there in the Marian Year became a place of pilgrimage for Catholics from all parts of
Yelverton Marriage Case
Like me, in browsing Newry’s history you may have read or heard some reference to the famous ‘Yelverton Marriage case’ and wondered what it was all about.