Ballybarrack House
A Ramble about the Ardee Road, Dundalk
We have posted a short presentation/video on the area around Ballybarrack House, off the Ardee Road in Dundalk at:
https://clahs.ie/virtual-ardee-road-ramble/
And for the answers to our sixth 'Where in the County',
For those who are new to our 'Where in the County', the following are links to the previous Quizes.
Other Where in the County Quizzes
For where in the County (8) see:
(7) see:
(5) see:
(4) see:
Where in the County (6)
Site No. 1
Smarmore: the Walled Garden, see:
Site No. 2
Slate Row, termonfeckin
Slate Row is a terrace of what once were tenant
houses serving Rath estate adjacent to Barn Hill Cross. So named because of the
long length of slated roof over the row of houses. Barn Hill cross, just north
of here, is also known as ‘Slate Row Cross’. Surnames from the 1850s associated
with the area include Devins, Randal, Ward and Tiernan. Only one of the houses is
currently occupied."
(Thanks to Declan Quaile for help with Slate Row)
http://www.termonfeckinhistory.ie/townlands_and_placenames_11.html
Seamus Briscoe recalls the 1950s in Slate Row, his grandfather, Peter Duff worked in Drogheda and his parents James Briscoe married Rose Anne Duff in 1940. Another neighbour was Patrick Joseph Fleming.
https://www.independent.ie/regionals/droghedaindependent/news/waiting-at-dyer-street-gates-for-an-early-copy-of-the-27132884.html
Site No. 3(Thanks to Harry McCarthy for this photo)
Bee Bowls in Feehans, Grange.
A bee bole is a cavity or alcove in a wall (the Scots word bole means a recess in a wall). A skep is placed in the bee bole. Before the development of modern bee hives the use of bee boles was a practical way of keeping bees in some parts of Britain, although most beekeepers kept their skeps in the open covered by items suitable for the purpose, such as old pots or sacking. The bee bole helped to keep the wind and rain away from the skep and the bees living inside.
see:
see also Philip King's 1997 excellent Article in our Journal about the Bee Boles at Cartanstown.
Another very informative article is in the 2010 Galway Journal about Bee Boles at Moycullen.
Site No. 4
Taken from the Irish Antiquarian, for an excellent and thorough account of the Lodge that sadly has been neglected and vandalised see:
(for presentation purposes before the answers were given, I cleaned up some of the vandalism on the door and blocked up windows. while the photo was out of context for the quiz). We would like to credit and thank the 'Irish Antiquarian'.
Site No. 5
Townley Hall megalithic monument, see.
Site No. 6
(Thanks to Conor Kenny for this photo)
Garden of Fane Valley House, (Allardstown) purchased by the Fitzgeralds in 1823. In the 1901 census Charles Hope Johnston was living there, shortly after this Major Harold Cliff lived there with his family, he died in 1917 and was a member of this Society. His son William McCulloch Cliff, 3rd Kings Hussars, was engaged in 1915 to Miss Mabel Selby-Lowndes (Kent). The 'big house' obviously was demolished after this. Does anyone know when the house was demolished?
Site No. 7
Reynoldstown (now Clermont Park): One of the outhouses on the Clermont Estate.
Clermont House, near Haynestown Church, Co. Louth (owned by Colonel Charles Davis Guinness) was burned in February 1923. Before the Guinness family lived there it was a Fortescue proiperty, see:
Site No. 8 (Thanks to Bryan and Jack Rogers for this photo)
Barmeath: Icehouse
Site No. 9 (Thanks to Don Johnston for this photo)
Ballymascanlan: Cottege/Lodge on the edge of the Ballymascanlan Estate, now the Ballymascanlon Hotel (they spell it with 'o') and golf course. Ballymascanlan was MacNeill, later Foster, Forster and Plunket.
Site No. 10
Gallstown House, Gallstown (Gaulstown) was part of the Smith-Barry estate and the Dolan family purchased the property fro Smith-Barry through the land commission in 1912. Joseph, son of James Dolan married in 1908, Margaret, daughter of John McGovern of Carterstown.
Site No. 11
The Old Church at Ardee, the new church was opened and blessed in 1974, the sermon on that occasion by theh the Society's editor and past secretary, Fr MacIomhair is a good summary of religious practice in Ardee since the time of St Patrick.
Site No. 12
Dundalk: The 'Old Gaol' Dundalk, the men's wing, now the Oriel Centre.
(men's wing)
(women's wing)
Site No. 13
Rathdrummin: the gate entering the graveyard and the tower of the church. Note the ordnance survey mark on the pillar.
Site No. 14
Killineer Yard, dated 1841
Site No. 15
(Thanks to Conor Kenny for this photo)
Killincoole Graveyard, Gravestones to members of the Foster Family
Inside the gateway stand five identical granite
headstones that mark the graves of Vere Foster’s relatives. The parts in []
come from O’ Reilly (1998, unpaginated)
IN LOVING MEMORY
| OF | ELIZABETH DOROTHY VERE MAY |
GLYDE COURT | WHO DIED 5TH NOV 1983 | HER HUSBAND | LT COL. ARTHUR C. W.
MAY | WHO DIED 14TH JAN 1965 | “at rest
IN LOVING MEMORY
OF | PHILIPPA (JOHN) FOSTER | DAUGHTER OF SIR VERE | AND LADY FOSTER | GLYDE
COURT | EVELYN MAUD FFOLKES | DIED AUG. 12TH 1980
IN LOVING MEMORY
OF | SIR A VERE FOSTER BART | [GLYDE COURT ARDEE | BORN 30TH MARCH
1873 DIED 7TH NOV 1947]
[TO THE GLORY OF GOD | AND IN
MEMORY OF | CHARLOTTE PHILIPPA MARIAN | WIFE OF SIR A VERE FOSTER | OF GLYDE
COURT ARDEE | DAUGHTER OF REV HENRY FFOLKES | OF HILLINGTON ENGLAND | BORN 7TH
FEB 1871 DIED 29TH SEPT 1938 | AND OF HER BELOVED SON ANTHONY VERE FORSTER BORN
… DIED 4TH OCT 1944]
IN | LOVING
MEMORY OF | HELEN SOPHIA EVERARD FFOLKES | DAUGHTER OF | THE REVD
HENRY FFOLKES | BORN APRIL 23RD 1869 | DIED JANUARY 23RD 1961 | SHE REACHETH
FORTH HER | HANDS TO THE NEEDY
Killincoole Graveyard 1210-1999 Darver County Louth
1998 Darver Alphie Reilly
Augustus John Foster (1780-1848) became the 1st Baronet in the family in 1831. He His son Frederick Foster (1816-57) succeeded as 2nd Baronet. Frederick’s brother, Cavendish Henry Foster (1817-1890) succeeded as 3rd Baronet in 1857, who was father of Sir Anthony Vere Foster 4th and last baronet in the family. Vere Henry Foster brother of Cavendish (1819-1900) was the well-known philanthropist whose life is documented by Reilly (1998).
Site No. 16 (Thanks to Don Johnston for this photo)
Taken from 'Post-Famine Economy of the Flurry Valley' by Don Johnston in our Journal, 2010 page 236
Site No. 17
The standing stone at Hurlstone
See Logaimn for details of the name Hurlstone.
Taken from
Archaeology Ireland
Heritage Guide No. 69: The route of Táin Bó Cúailnge in County Louth (June 2015) by Paul Gosling, published by Wordwell.
Site No. 18
Detail from the entrance to Rokeby House.
Taken from Classic irish Hoouses of the Middle Size by Maurice Craig (1976) published by The Architectural Press, London, page 152.
Site No. 19
The Gary Kelly Centre, Drogheda.
The Gary Kelly centre was opened in 2004.
After his testimonial match between Leeds Utd and Glasgow Celtic, €750,000 was spent on purchasing the detached redbrick two-storey house that was completely refurbished and was formally opened on 16 June 2004 yesterday by Gary and the Minister for Communications, the Marine and Natural Resources Mr Ahern. Gary's €1 million contribution was matched by local businesses.
Gary's career and presentation of the Freedom of Drogheda are shown as follows:
Site No. 20
Smarmore: Lismore Fort
see:
Raths
Site No. 21
The cottage between the green sheds was owned by William
Durnin. William was born in 1902, his parents were Patrick Durnin and Bridget Clarke.
(Thanks to Conor Kenny for help with this site)
Site No. 22
The Chapel at the Cord Road, Drogheda.
This notice appears on the gateway outside.
Anne Crilly, Drogheda: the City of the Churches, (2005)
Site No. 23
Leslie's History of Kilsaran, page 70
The contractor Mr. Nicholl, built Dromiskin Church in 1821 the same year as he enlarged Castlebellingham Church. For a full and comprehensive history of Dromiskin see Leslie, he also carries detailed vestry minutes that provides infomration on the church and parish.
MonArt ORIGINAL INK DRAWINGS FOR SALE (mounted or framed) pm me for information.
View of the Church of Ireland along with the medieval church, the high cross and the round tower.
Site No. 24
Drakestown National School, beside the Church at Ballapousta.
Canon MacIvor (later he went as MacIomhair) in his 1949 article in our Journal notes:
Site No. 25
Lisrenny, an outhouse, part of the walled garden, A.F. appears to be the initials of Alexander Filgate.
The successive generations at Lisrenny were: Alexander Filgate (b. 1702) m. Elinor Byrne; William Filgate (b. 1740) m. Anne Filgate; William Filgate (b. 1781) m. Sophia De Salis; William De Salis Filgate (b. 1834) m. Georgina French; Eileen Filgate (b. 1879) m. Richard Henry (changed his name to Filgate); Townley Filgate (b. 1906) m. Doris Henry.
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