Thursday 1 April 2021

Where in the County (10)

Welcome to our (Easter) 10th Where in the County Quiz.

We're very thankful to members Bryan, Don, Harry, Lindis and Luke for some of the photos, 

                                 Ravensdale
                                 (Thanks to Lindis Lenox-Conyngham)


Site 1: Clonmore: De Verdon Castle
(Thanks to Luke Torris)


http://irishantiquities.bravehost.com/louth/clonmore/clonmorecastle.html



Site 2: Old Parochial House, Louth Village





Site 3: Ravensdale House: Home of John Thompson
(Thanks to Don Johnston)




Site 4: The Spire of St Peter's Church in Drogheda.

The papal mitre, infulae (infula is one of the two embroidered lappets of a mitre) and keys are built into a circular panel on the tower on the side facing on to West Street. Walking around the tower in a counter-clockwise manner, on the next side built into a circular panel is the date 'July 11th 1881'. The next side of the tower contains the arms of the archdiocese of Armagh. Above the coat of arms is the mitra pretiosa (precious mitre) decorated with an orphrey or band of jewels. Also set in bend are the patriarchial cross and pastoral staff. Above the mitre is the galero or archbishop's hat with ten tassels draped on either side of the coat of arms. The fourth side bears no image.


Papal Infulae

The date July 11th 1881


The arms of the Armagh archdioce 



 

Site 5: Kildemock Gate Lodge
(Thanks to Luke Torris)



Site 6: Standing Stone ? off Mount Avenue Road, Dundalk



Site 7: A back view of Smarmore Castle (Taaffe)




Site 8: The Church of St John the Baptist, Dunany




Site 9: Jones Quay – harbour used by schooners belonging to the Jones family.
(Thanks to Luke Torris) 

Commissioners Report 1837




Site 10: Whelan's Pub Tullyard

John Callan m. (1859) Jane Dowdall (d. 1915) 
Callan
Erected by Thomas Callan, Tullyard, in memory of his father John, who died 3rd August 1909 aged 86 years. His mother Jane, who died 13th June 1915
(St Peter’s Cemetery, Drogheda – 1993 transcriptions)
http://www.termonfeckinhistory.ie/termonfeckin_deceased_buried_elsewhere_47.html






Site 11: Curralhir Bridge Ravensdale
(Thanks to Bryan Rogers)



Dunmahon Castle see:





Site 13: Stake Weirs near Annagassan

(Thanks to Luke Torris)
  • Stake weirs –About 200 metres from the shore, just north of the Lynns townland near Annagassan are the remains of two ancient fish weirs. They are in the channel of what is known locally as McKeown’s River.  The weirs were made by building upright stakes with interwoven branches across the river.  It had traps to confine fish into a small space from which they could be taken.





Site 14 Linn Duachaill
  • Linn Duachaill defensive ditch / rampart excavation at the Linns, Annagassan.  This trench was 12 m x 2 m wide and reached a maximum depth of 5.5 m below ground surface.
  • (Thanks to Luke Torris)


Site 15 G.N.R. Building at Dundalk




Site 16 Barmeath

The lake and pleasure grounds at Barmeath were designed by Thomas Wright of Durham (1711-1785), who visited Ireland in 1746 at the invitation of Lord Limerick and designed a series of garden buildings on his estate at Tollymore in Co Down. Wright explored 'the wee county' and his book "Louthiana", describes and illustrates many of its archaeological sites. Wright’s original layout at Barmeath is contemporary with the house. It includes a small lake, an archery ground, a maze, a hermitage, a shell house and a rustic bridge, while the four-acre walled garden has recently been restored.





Site 17: Remains of the Boyne Obelisk near Oldbridge
(Thanks to Luke Torris)



Site 18: Ardaghy: Poill a Bhuí Mass Rock 





Site 19: Stormanstown National School built in 1865






Site 20: Bullaun stone at Shankill (seancill) Irish Grange
(Thanks to Harry McCarthy for this)


Site 21 Kilcurry, St Brigid's Parish Church Faughart.

Designed by William Byrne (1896-1900) in the spirit of Celtic revivalism. Built of rock-faced Newry granite in a Hiberno-Romanesque idiom. Extensive limestone trim. In the church is preserved a relic of St Brigid, a fragment of the saint's skull, housed beneath the high altar - Christine Casey Buildings of Ireland: North Leinster.



Site 22: Dundalk, Louth County Infirmary (now Grammar School)

Built 1834, designed by Thomas Smith of Hertfordshire. An attractive Tudor-Gothic building, long two-two storey redbrick block with tall sandstone chimneys and projecting gabled endbays at front and rear. 



Site 23: Ardee: A Railway House



Site 24 Carstown House: – feature on the gable end of a range of outbuildings, akin to a dovecot?
(Thanks to Luke Torris)


Site 25 Ballymascanlan Corn Mill
(Thanks to Don Johnston)


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