A Ramble about the Old Newry Road out of Dundalk by Don Johnston
Don has recently sat down with us and made a short presentation/video (17 minutes) on the Mount Pleasant - Proleek area, hope you enjoy:
https://clahs.ie/ramble-along-the-old-new-newry-road/
Other 'Where in the County' Quizzes
For those who are new to our 'Where in the County', the following are links to the previous quizes.
https://irishheraldry.blogspot.com/2020/12/where-in-county-8-christmas.html
Site No. 1
see
site no. 20 on:
https://irishheraldry.blogspot.com/2020/08/where-in-county-6.html
Paul's
father Paddy was born there and his grandparents were Patrick and Margaret
married in 1902.
http://fortescue.org/site/manor-houses/ravensdale/
Ravensdale Park, an early
Victorian House, built of granite with a plain, irregular aspect. It was built
for Thomas Fortescue, 1st Baron Clermont. The architect was Thomas Duff of
Newry. The house was burned in 1921 and
all that survives is some of the yard and stables.
Collon:
The limestone water fountain, just below the Church of Ireland at Collon. The inscriptions reads: The gift of the Reverend Alexander Bradford of Collon 1822.
Proctor's Lodge is a present day Air BnB
https://www.airbnb.ie/rooms/23159378?source_impression_id=p3_1604229968_9nMQbwQuHL2tt3kR
Toberdoney came into the ownership of the Henry family in the early
1860s. Francis (Frank) Henry, after his marriage in 1860 to Louisa Braddel,
bought the land in Toberdoney, that was later owned by his son, John Henry (c.
1862-1930) who married Mary Florence, daughter of William Cole Bayly of
Ardristan, Tullow, Co Carlow.
Father Michael Pentony served as Parish Priest in Dunleer. He
was responsible for building the School at Stifyans Cross, Phillipstown, Dunleer,
having secured the site from the landlord, Rev, Sir Cavendish Foster, Sir
Cavendish agreed to make the site
available because of pressure from his brother, Vere Foster. He had expressed reluctance
There is photo of
Philipstown School House (Sean Daly) with Langham's house before it was
'raised' in Fr Murtagh's 2009 Book, p. 113.
The late Padraig Faulkner,
served as principal in school prior to his time in Dail Eireaann.
Baltray Standing Stones at
dawn on a bitterly cold morning in December
See Anthony Murphy's website:
https://www.mythicalireland.com/ancient-sites/baltray-standing-stones/
Parts of the old Fortescue estate of Ravensdale survives in the bridges. The pretty old bridge close to Ravensdale House at the W entrance survives. This is to the West at the main road, where the Wesr gate lodge was.
https://humphrysfamilytree.com/Hunter/ravensdale.html
street view:
This house was for sale,
perhaps once part of the Bellingham estate? Someone might be able to help us with this one?
St Colman's Well, Salterstown
Larry Conlon's article of 2000 on Holy Wells provides some details:
1902 – The Century Bar, Dundalk,
Co. Louth
A rare Art Nouveau public house still well maintained. Perhaps designed by a Belfast firm, it was built by a Terence McDonald whose initials form the centrepiece of the bar. The delightful turret on the corner features curved sashes and glass, and there are some very fine neo-Tudor chimneys on the roof. Some of the following links might be of interest
https://archiseek.com/2010/1902-the-century-bar-dundalk-co-louth/
https://www.talkofthetown.ie/the-century-bar-available-for-lease/
This limekiln is located in the townland of Proleek, it was on the old Dundalk - Newry Road (1766). This is part of the industrial heritage in the area featured in the recent video made by Don Johnston:
This limekiln links in with numerous others in the
area, Sir John Macneill's at Proleek Acres, dated 1843, also his limekiln at
Mount Pleasant, Aghaboys.
see also Don's 2004 article
Corstown Bridge (remains
of) on the old coast road near Annagassan
https://www.visitlouth.ie/explore-and-do/explore-louth/castles-and-conquests-louth/ardee-castle.html
http://www.megalithicireland.com/Ardee%20Castle.html
Ardee Castle is significant for being one of the largest tower houses in Ireland or Britain. Little remains of the structure founded by Roger de Peppard in 1207. The present building was built by John St Ledger in the fifteenth century.
Site No. 17
Tobar Ronain A togbhailte ? 1908 repaired by this Society
https://thefadingyear.wordpress.com/tag/irish-traditions/
The small plaque on the forge features the coronet of a marquess and the letter B for Bath as well as the date 1869. The Marquess of Bath owned a large estate on the east side of Carrickmacross, from what I could make out, the forge is in Co Monaghan, just on the border!. The family name was Thynnes. Of course the other side of the main street in Carrick was owned by the Shirleys.
For further discussion on the Bath connections at Carrickmacross, see:
https://theirishaesthete.com/category/monaghan/
http://irishantiquities.bravehost.com/monaghan/essexford/essexfordforge.html
The plaque reads: Erected to the memory of Peter Connor, the last Blacksmith to work this forge 1936-1969. Peter left for Dublin in 1969 where he died in 2008.
See the National Folklore account of the Forge
see the GoogleMap location:
Lurgankeel, KilcurryThis wedge tomb is situated on the west side of the valley of the Kilcurry River. It
consists of a substantial grass-grown oblong mound 12m in length, 7m in width and 1m in height, in which there is the remains of a long gallery, aligned NNE-SSW
Two clumps of white-thorn
trees grow on the south end of the mound. The gallery is at least 4.5m long, is
aligned almost N-S with the entrance at the south end. A large septal -stone
marks the south end of the gallery.
https://www.geograph.ie/photo/3482856
Site No. 21
https://louthfieldnames.wordpress.com/2013/11/30/medieval-chuch-and-motte-castle-at-mayne-co-louth/
The account of the church and motte at:
https://www.theirishantiquarian.com/2020/04/mayne-church-graveyard-and-motte-glebe.html
cannot be improved on, so well done to the Irish Antiquarian!
William Brabazon of Rath born 1658. Was Sheriff of Louth in 1708. He died in 1714 and was buried in Termonfeckin. He married secondly Elizabeth Lambert of Dundalk, their son:Wallop Brabazon born c.1698. High Sheriff of Louth in 1731. He gained much of his estate after his brother Ralph bequeathed to him lands in Togher in 1730. Wallop died at Rath in 1767. He married Vincentia Townley of Townley Hall in 1730.
Their son Henry (Harry) Brabazon born 1739/40
married his cousin, Jane, daughter of Anthony and Mary Donagh in 1762
and one of their sons was Henry Brabazon of Seafield, Togher who died
in 1815 aged 44. Henry married in 1803, to the relict of Francis Elliott.
Also noted on the Termonfeckin monument is the remains of Henry's eldest son, Harry Lambert Brabazon of Seafield who died in July 1849 aged 39 years. The website below says he died at Fair Street, Drogheda. Also his only son Harry William Brabazon who died June 1849 aged [5] years. (Research by genealogist Jan Barnes indicates that Harry Lambert Brabazon went to live in N. S. W., Australia with his wife Isabella Georgina.
Isabella Georgiana
Cash, married Henry Lambert Brabazon of Seafield on 10th January 1837 (The
Drogheda Journal, 14th January 1837). Footnote 49 Termonfeckin Website
23. De La Salle House. Ardee
See:
Selected: CO. LOUTH, ARDEE, DE LA SALLE
RESIDENCE
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Name: |
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Building: |
CO.
LOUTH, ARDEE, DE LA SALLE RESIDENCE |
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Date: |
1924 |
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New residence for De La
Salle Brothers. Tender of J.J. Gogarty, West St, Drogheda, for £3,903 accepted. |
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IB 66,
3,17 May 1924, 401,446 |
A History of Irish Catholicism by Patrick J. Corish, 1967 p. 25 refers to the works of artists of a very high standard , and in many cases they have worked jointly with architects, as in the mortuary chapel at Our Lady of Lourdes hospital , Drogheda (architects Martin & White), which shows off to advantage the magnificent 'Risen Christ' by Edward Delany.
Castletown, Dundalk
Castletown Castle House and Castle are now part of Dun Lughaidh Convent and secondary school. Richard Bellew built a tower house in the fifteenth century at Castletown where the family lived until the period of the Battle of Boyne and Aughrim. In 1740, Edward Tipping had acquired the castle with the surrounding lands and built a Georgian house adjacent to the castle. By 1784, the Tipping family had left Castletown and it was purchased by John Eastwood from Armagh. when he died in 1790, his son James, a clergyman, inherited the property. He died in 1808 and Charles Eastwood was the next occupant.
James Eastwood who was the local magistrate, died without children in 1865 and he was buried in Armagh. The house and castle eventually passed from the Eastwoods to the Bigger Family of Falmore.
In 1894 Kathleen Mary Geraldine Fortescue of Stephenstown married (John James) Eastwood Bigger of Falmore Hall and Castletown, Dundalk. Kathleen M. G. Bigger died in early 1932 aged 69 in Drogheda and her husband Eastwood Bigger died on 2 January 1940. They were recorded in the 1911 census at Castletown but had no family. By May 1950, Castletown Castle House was listed for sale and was eventually purchased by an order of St. Louis nuns who began the arduous task of turning the building into a school.
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