This time our view is from Ballinalack Road on the western edge of Camlough Lake. The quarry in the distance figured in our geological survey of this area.
John McCullagh
Pill-Boxes & Air-Raid Shelters
Do you remember the ‘Pill-Boxes’ on
Or the Air-Raid Shelters?
Armagh Road Quarry
Landfill in abandoned quarries has been the favoured method of waste disposal about here for generations. What few abandoned granite quarries that remain are too small and indeed are now being further excavated so that housing can be built there – witness the permanent ‘woodpecker’ drilling beyond Quinn Bennett’s former home on Barley Lane, for example.
Moving to Linenhall Square
My people, the Rodgers, originally came from
Kirk Ruddy’s School Days
You’ve heard of Tom Brown’s School Days.
But have you heard of Kirk Ruddy’s School Days?
Well, School day.. to be precise…
Carlingford Lough Panorama
Another panorama of Carlingford Lough – but this time from the top of Slieve Martin at the Cloughmore Stone, with a low winter sun shining down on Rostrevor and Warrenpoint in the distance below us.
Art Bennett 1793-1879
Art Bennett was an important part of the Ulster cultural revival of the late eighteenth-early nineteenth century. By sheer chance, my friend Tom McKeown found the photocopied note reproduced below, among his papers, with nothing attached to indicate its origin or meaning. That does not stop us from speculating!
Chapel Street Rocks
When I was a youngster back home in Newry, a lot of enjoyment was spent on ‘The Rocks’ in
LinenHall Arch
Was it always sunny in days of yore?
Or does it just seem so now we’re looking back from middle age?
This is the famous Linen Hall Arch again, this time unspoiled with soldiers in the picture!