There was also a piggery. The intention was as far as possible to be self-sufficient in food.
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There was also a piggery. The intention was as far as possible to be self-sufficient in food.
There were factors that featured on a national and wider scale, such as temporary agricultural recessions, government policies and the shift from cultivation to pasture.
The rising and falling trends of Workhouse admissions over
Notes compiled mainly from conversations (1990) between the author John McCullagh and Mrs Nancy Ferrier, former employee of Newry Workhouse.
The drumlins just referred to are another unique feature of our local physical scene, sometimes rather graphically referred to as a ‘basket of eggs’ topology. Away from the mountains, and stretching in a broad band across north central
The town of Newry, we are told, was established in 1144 when Cistercian monks set up a monastery here. Not so.
Some thirteen years later their position, wealth, power and influence were enhanced when the high king of Ireland, Murtagh McLoughlin, granted a Charter and bestowed lands on them, asking other temporal rulers to do likewise. It was not as simple as that.
The context needs to be examined.
Benedict Arnold is infamous in American history as that country’s most renowned traitor. Unfortunately Newry is better remembered for our home-grown traitors than for our several heroes. This article focuses on two of the more influential traitors. It is the present author’s opinion that their betrayal is comparable with that of Arnold’s.
The local man was on the Cullaville Road in Crossmaglen when he was approached by an American tourist.
“Excuse me, sir”, said the latter, “But could you tell me the fastest way to Newry?”