Allow me if you will, the space to expand somewhat on the information re. the origin/ meaning of the placename FORKHILL which is already carried on Newry Journal.
History
1641 Revolt: deaths in Newry
Dr John McCavitt’s article entitled, ‘The Newry Massacres of 1641-2’, is reproduced from the original which first appeared in the 1988 edition of Cuisle na nGael.
Newry Journal readers are urged to consult the original article, as inevitably we have erred in ‘summarising’ what appeared there!
1901 Census: Monaghan Row
The official 1901 Census Return is of special interest for many reasons, not least because it is the earliest available. The families enumerated are well-remembered, even if all the individuals listed have passed on.
Pill-Boxes & Air-Raid Shelters
Do you remember the ‘Pill-Boxes’ on
Or the Air-Raid Shelters?
Gentry Directory:19th Century
We have already had a favourable reaction to the posting of that initial list from the 19th Century Directory. The following is the rest of ‘Gentry Etc’ from mid-nineteenth century Newry.
19th Century Gentry
It is sometimes revealing, always interesting to review lists of prominent townspeople from past ages – if merely to note who contemporaries were. The following is of ‘Gentry Etc’ from the mid-nineteenth century.
Seavers of Killeavey
At the suppression of the Killeavey Convent under Henry VIII in the 1540s – a Convent then believed to be under the authority of the Culdees – the lands were seized and allotted to one Marmaduke Whitchurch. He failed to prosper there but a daughter married Nicholas Seaver of Lusk,
18th Century Famine
Scientists recently identified as the greatest danger to Ireland, Britain and Northern Europe, the possibility of the failure of the massive under-ocean current, the North Atlantic conveyor, which – by diverting the ‘Gulf Stream’ to our direction – gives us a much warmer climate than our latitude would normally merit. Ironically, in this part of the world, the first, most-dramatic and irreversible effect of rampant global warming will be much lower temperatures overall.
Montgomery & Hamilton
There had been considerable cross-Channel migration – from