The Winner's are:
Margaret Campbell
Matthew Dillon
Congratulations!
Other Where in the County Quizzes
https://irishheraldry.blogspot.com/2020/04/where-in-county.html
(3) see:
https://irishheraldry.blogspot.com/2020/05/where-in-county-3.html
(4) see:
Site No. 3.
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Site No. 9.
9. Old Granary at Grange Church car park
A granary, there is no mill wheel and the stream down through Grange would not be capable of driving one. There was a large farm and a big house, now in ruin and it was the Verdon estate. The two-story house at the roadside is a later construction. The Verdons were there until 1857 and then Laurence Feehan from Castlecarra, Riverstown became the owner, he died in 1912. The farm extended South East from the granary on both sides of the main Greenore road as far as and including the Cooley Kickhams football grounds (Crossalaney) and Cooley Credit Union on the other side of the road, starting at Grange cemetery. Most of the land has now been sold. The granary and house were sold more than a decade ago.
Site No. 10.
Thanks to Kieran Campbell for this image.
https://www.geograph.ie/photo/889825
Site No. 11.
Site No. 12.
12. Louth Village
Site No. 13.
This House among many more from Co Louth and beyond, feature on Conor Kenny's Country Houses, Facebook Page, please see:
https://www.facebook.com/stephenstown66/
Site No. 14.
https://www.google.com/maps/@54.0401757,-6.1821807,3a,75y,142.75h,84.31t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sxw8WXui3GmJuNQn1RjoXgg!2e0!7i16384!8i8192
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Site No. 16.
16. Blackrock Boat House
Site No. 17.
17. Greenmount, Kilsaran
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Site No. 25.
And finally, seen in April 2020 on the old Newry Road out of Dundalk.
https://irishheraldry.blogspot.com/2020/05/where-in-county-3.html
(4) see:
(7) see:
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So now for where in the County (2)?
The answers along with some additional detail are now provided.
I would like to thank all those who kindly gave permission to use their images.
Site No. 1.
1. Elm View, Drogheda, St Collon
Dating from
1780, it houses 10 rooms and was first spotted by Mother Mary Martin in the
summer of 1938 when she was looking for a home for the Medical Missionaries of
Mary. It was officially blessed in December 1938 by Cardinal MacRory as a
novitiate house. The congregation was growing and it was intended to erect a
larger convent on the site of Woodside House on the main street in Collon
The village
was a blaze of colour for the opening in 1938.
Site No. 2.
2. The windmill at Piperstown dating 1756
It is shown with sails on Taylor and Skinner's 1778 map of Co. Louth. It appears on O.S. 1st edition, surveyed 1835, as 'Pigeon Ho.' but on 1908 edition as 'Windmill Stump'. The western doorway has been neatly blocked up, presumably when it became a pigeon house. There are no traces of pigeon holes in the interior. In far right distance is the farmyard attached to Piperstown House, itself hidden by the trees. (Kieran Campbell)
3 Roodstown Castle
Christine Casey says it is c. mid 15th century and contains four storeys with a barrel-vaulted basement and two square turrets built by the Taaffes (Leslie).
Site No. 4.
4 Kilkerley Crossroads
These derelict buildings were owned by the Kearney family The last two family members, brothers lived there until about the year 2000. The property was bought by Kilkerley Parish. It is situated on the road from the Carrickmacross Road and up past the cedar tree is Kilkerley church and school
5 Stables at Thomastown/Knockabbey
The stables were probably built by the Reilly family, and survived 1923 fire.
6. Republican Monument on the Marsh Road, Drogheda
The monument is located south of the river, along the Marsh
Road, 400m east of the railway viaduct. It marks the location where the bodies of Alderman Thomas Halpin and
John (Seán) Moran were found following their deaths. They were killed by Black and Tan forces on
9 February 1921. [ Liam Reilly, ‘Account of Drogheda's part in the 1916
Rising’, Reflections on the 1916 Rising,
pp. 179-90, p. 185, published 2016] The
home of a third man, on the Marsh Road, that of Thomas Grogan was also raided
but he had made good his escape before their arrival. A first anniversary Mass
for Halpin and Moran was celebrated in St Peter’s Church (R.C.) and afterwards Cumann na mBan members ‘marched to the new cemetery’ and laid wreaths on Mr Halpin’s grave.[ Irish Independent, 10 February
1922, p. 6, John Moran was buried in his native Enniscorthy.] In 1931 by which time the monument at the Marsh Road had been erected,
the Drogheda annual commemoration had become well established. That year
hundred’s marched from St Peter’s to the memorial cross and the procession
included Drogheda’s mayor,
several Corporation members and various football teams and political
organisations in the town. The inscription on the monument reads:
I gcuimhne díl na sair-fear Tomas Ó h-Ailpin & An
Caiptín S. Ó Móráin a dunmharbhuigead le saighdiúirí d’arm Sásana
ar an 9adh Feabhra '21. An Caiptín S. Ó Flannagáin a thuit a troid ar an 29adh
Bealtaine ’22. F’ O Líam Ó Laodhóg ar an 29adh Meithimh ’22 a fuair bas d’en 9adh
briogaid i lugmaid teas i seirbhis na hEireann. Ar deas-laimh Dé go raibh a n-anamna! [Moss] An Ceannphort
P. Ó Mainnín, An Caiptín Pádraig Ó
Cuanaigh, An Caiptín Bearnárd Ó Dalaigh. National Graves Assoc.
[Also included from a later period is ‘Labhras Ó Gruagáin (1898-1979).
Caith sé a shaoil ar son na h-Eireann’ translates as Laurence Grogan
(1898-1979). He dedicated his life to Ireland. The Grogan family gravestones
are in Calvary Cemetery.]
Translated
In loving memory of the
heroic men Thomas Halpin and Captain S. Moran who were murdered by
soldiers of the British Army on the 9th of February 1921. Captain S. Flanagan who died
in combat on the 29th May 1922. [Sec Ldr] Liam Leech who died on the 29th June
1922, a member of the 9th Brigade of South Louth, in the service of Ireland.
May their souls be
at God’s right hand. Commandant P. Mannion, Captain Patrick Cooney, Captain Bernard Daly.
The Leech family gravestone at St
Peter’s also commemorates Thomas Halpin:
I.H.S.
Erected by Mary Leech North Road, in loving memory of her husband John 6th November 1912. Also in sad and ever loving
memory of her son-in-law Alderman Thomas J. Halpin Georges Street
who was shot on Ash Wednesday 9 Feb.
1921 and his wife Agnes who died 15th June 1973. R.I.P. Moss.
Captain James Flanagan, Magdalen Street, Drogheda, one of the
irregular I.R.A. garrisons stationed at Millmount Barracks was shot at
Gormanston Train Station by the R.I.C. The monument there reads: ‘Erec in memory of Cpt. James (Tim)
Flanagan 1st Bat. 9th Brg. I.R.A. who died here 29 May
1922 in defence of the Republic. R.I.P. Erec by his comrades.’
A marble plaque marks the location
at Pitcher’s Lane, Drogheda where William (Liam) was shot by Free State troops.[ This was just days prior to the shelling of Millmount
by Free State troops.] That inscription reads ‘Erec. in memory of Sec. Ldr. Liam Leech 1st Bat. 9th
Brg. I.R.A. who died here 29 June 1922. In defence of the Republic. R.I.P.
Erec. by his comrades’. Bernard Daly is buried in St Mary’s Church of Ireland
Churchyard, Drogheda, and his memorial reads:
I ndíl chuimhne Captaen B Ó Dálaigh an chead chat
Bridgáid Átha Cliath arm poblachta na
h-Éireann a dunmharbhuighead 26adh de Lughnasa 1922. Moss [on back] Erected
by his comrades of the I.R.A.
Translated this reads ‘In loving memory of Captain
B. Daly, 1st Division of the Dublin Brigade of the Irish Republican Army who
was murdered on 26th of August 1922’.
Captain Patrick Cooney, a native of Monasterboice, who is
also named on the Marsh Road monument was one of four Anti-Treaty I.R.A. killed
during a raid in Bantry, Co Cork on 30 August 1922. He was buried locally in Co
Cork. The family gravestone at Monasterboice reads:
Erected
by Nicholas Cooney Slate Hill who died Sep. 23rd 1924 aged 54 years.
His wife Julia who died 24 April
1952 aged 88 and their son Patrick who died 13 Aug. 1925 aged 25 ... [should be 30 August]
Commandant Patrick Mannion from Co Mayo took the Anti-Treaty
side in the Civil War when he was attached to the Louth Brigade, 1st Eastern
Division, I.R.A. ‘By his
daring, coolness and courage Commandant Mannion became the idol of the
Republican Forces who were shelled out of the position in Drogheda, and who
were forced to act as guerrilla columns’. He was killed on 17
September 1922 following an attack on the Free State Army H.Q. at Westland Row,
Dublin.
7. Fieldstown
This image was sent in by Philip King who saw it on a wall, one of our
archaeologists says it is not Ogham writing, so in all likelihood fake! nevertheless the stone
could be part of a wall, as know in other parts of the county, the Louthfence
is a feature.
Site No. 8.
8. Dromena Road Castlebellingham.
The stone house dates from 1870 and was built by the Bellingham’s for a stewart on the estate. It is beside the former Presbyterian Church, now known as Woodside Chapel where civil marriages take place.
9. Old Granary at Grange Church car park
A granary, there is no mill wheel and the stream down through Grange would not be capable of driving one. There was a large farm and a big house, now in ruin and it was the Verdon estate. The two-story house at the roadside is a later construction. The Verdons were there until 1857 and then Laurence Feehan from Castlecarra, Riverstown became the owner, he died in 1912. The farm extended South East from the granary on both sides of the main Greenore road as far as and including the Cooley Kickhams football grounds (Crossalaney) and Cooley Credit Union on the other side of the road, starting at Grange cemetery. Most of the land has now been sold. The granary and house were sold more than a decade ago.
The top
floor of the granary served as the local hall where dances etc were held up to
1940s (there was no parish hall until 1950). Access to this was up the slope
from the Church side. It is possible this floor was originally used as sleeping
quarters for the farm workers.
The
Verdon stone horizontally placed at Kilwirra graveyard has: Richard De Verdon
of Monksland died 22Feb 1855. Michael Verdon died 1831 and Mrs Elizabeth Verdon
died 1845. Note the addition of De for Richard.
(Information
from Harry McCarthy, thanks)
Site No. 10.
10. St Peter and Paul’s Church, Walshestown
The foundation stone was laid on 30 March 1837 by a soon of Sir patrick Bellew. The Church was possibly designed by Thomas Smith (Casey) and renovated by John Murray 1876.
Site No. 11.
11. Shop Street / Dyer Street junction, Drogheda
Built by Alderman Thomas Connolly, the corner-sited attached three-bay three-storey house and commercial premises, dated 1889.
In 1884 Mr Casey-Connolly, Mayor of Drogheda, who had inherited the brewery established by his uncle Patrick Casey in Stockwell Street in 1846, bought Mell Flax Mill, another early textile mill which had failed some years earlier. After suitable alterations to the premises he moved the brewery operations from the town centre to Mell.
Site No. 12.
12. Louth Village
Louth
House was owned/built for, a cadet branch of the Taaffe family, the senior branch having resided at Smarmore. In
the 1870s it was possibly occupied by Laurence Taaffe (who owned 65 acres). He
married in 1848 Ann Murphy of Francis Street, Dundalk. By the 1901 (and 1911)
census it’s occupied by John Taaffe and his family, and their servants. He gave
his occupation as farmer and JP in 1901. John Taaffe married in 1883 Annie
Callan of Carrickmacross.
(Thanks to Conor Kenny for this information)
Site No. 13.
13. Glyde Court
Originally the seat of the Fosters known in 18th century as Rosy Park. It was owned for a time by the Uptons before repossession. By the mid 19th century Jacobean remodelling begun by the Uptons in 1843 was completed in 1868 by the Fosters.
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Foster crest and coat of arms at Glyde Court
From Bence Jones
14. Ghan Road, Carlingford
A railway house probably for the signal man.
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Site No. 15.
15. Obelisk
Bridge, Oldbridge
The modern bridge
marks the site of the battle of the Boyne (Casey). The obelisk nearby detailing
the happenings of 1690 was recorded by Isaac Butler in 1744
The obelisk stood until 31 May 1923, when it was destroyed during the
Civil War.
16. Blackrock Boat House
Sketched by Micheál McKeown who we thank and acknowledge for the drawing.
17. Greenmount, Kilsaran
Motte from prehistoric times excavated in 1830 and 1870 has an elongated chamber. Some notable finds are associated with the Vikings?
18. Gate Lodge at the entrance to Williamstown House
Williamstown House was built by the Chester family and dates from the mid 19th century
19. Foresters’ Hall, Omeath
This hall belongs to the Irish National Foresters, a Mutual Benefit Society. Between 1914 and 1950 it housed the INF St Mochta's Lodge No 687. Like the Orangemen on the other side of the Lough INF lodges wore sashes. except theirs... were green. A plaque by the door commemorates the fact that the hall also housed a Gaelic language college - Colaiste Bhride - between 1912 and 1925.
20. Ballsgrove Gate, Drogheda, close to the Bridge of Peace.
The path under the gate leads to Ballsgrove house, it contains the arms, crest and
motto of the Ball family.
Site No. 21.
21. Richardstown Lodge and Gate
Richardstown House comprises a 14c. or 15c. castle and the house got its Georgian look c. 1770. The house contains within its fabric, a substantial part of a tower house, likely dating to the fifteenth century. It is described as a castle and bawn (notes of the late Padraig Faulkner 2012, 78) and it was in the ownership of John White in 1657 prior to the start of the Cromwellian confiscations in the Barony of Ardee. It was granted to Sir William Aston during this period and following the restoration, he obtained confirmation of his title to the property. Aston held various legal positions including that of treasurer at the King's Inns (1665-9). During this time he resided in Dublin while his country residence was at Richardstown (Ball 1926, 346). In 1689 Thomas Aston was declared an ‘absentee’ by the Jacobites. The Dartrey papers at PRONI contain title deeds and other papers (1710-1780) relating to the lands of Richardstown (& some nearby townlands), sold by William Brownlow of Lurgan to Alderman Richard Dawson in 1753. The papers also contain quit rent receipts to Alexander Henry, Viscount Cremorne's County Louth agent, relating to lands in the barony of Ardee (1784-95). Richardstown was sold to Alexander Henry before he died in 1796.
Site No. 22.
22. Parsonstown Church
Medieval Church built c. 1528 (Casey)
Site No. 23.
23. Mass Rock at Mullagharlin, Dundalk
24. Gate Lodge at Beltichburne
See the painting by Richard Moore:
Beltichburne House was owned by the Lelland or Leyland family.
25. Hatch's Castle Ardee
Christine Casey says it is a rectangular, four storey tower house with rounded corners and a facade only one window wide. It is 15th or 16th century and has been for a long time the property of the Hatch family, Two semicircular turrets project at the rear. The castle is sandwiched between ordinary houses on the main street. Lewis in 1837 described it as 'recently fitted up as a dwelling by Wm Hatch', which probably accounts for the new battlements, windows and hood mouldings.
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