This is the next in our series of Lists of Residents of streets of our town from former times. These can be utilised in many ways …
John McCullagh
Emer v Fand at Newry
Probably based on actual events, the Ulster Cycle of tales constitutes the oldest corpus of secular literature in all of western Europe. It is a cause of great local pride that we of Iubhair Cinn Tragha …
Case Proven: Monastery it is
The Environment & Heritage Service appointed Ms Claire Foley, Acting Assistant Director, to speak on the McCann’s site excavation and development. We feel it important here …
Animal farm
I read in the paper the other day of a man in remote Siberia who petitioned the Russian President for permission to marry a cow ……….
Abbey 1947
The men pictured, the Abbey Pre-Junior Class of 1947, are now all in their early to mid 70s.
Greencastle: and Bagenals
Those ‘State Papers’ so beloved of the Bagnophiles who have mortgaged our future on the deception that Nicholas Bagenal built the Abbot’s House from scratch, also claim that he later built (and moved to) the impressive Greencastle outside Kilkeel.
Hoor in the door
In the time of the Great Hunger, there were a number of decent Protestant clergymen who took pity on their destitute and starving Roman Catholic neighbours.
Father Tom
Tom Fee was born in 1923. His parents were both schoolteachers in the local school near Cullyhanna.
1550 : Abbot out: Bagenal in
Fortune – and highly-placed friends – favoured Nicholas Bagenal in the year of 1550.