These five photographs were taken in winter 2002. They depict Pighall Loanan, showing Helen’s Terrace with St Bridget’s Church in the background. The first photo is of Cowan Street below St Patrick’s Church. Also shown are the Clanrye Estuary from Victoria Locks, Swans on Albert Basin and Fathom Mountain.
John McCullagh
Throw another bottle!
The former model and wife of Sir David Frost is recovering in hospital from the effects of an overdose. Sir David found wife Lady Carina (50) unconscious at their
Linenhall Square: Beginning
As we have already for other estates, we will shortly list the tenants of Linen Hall Square from another age. Meanwhile we reproduce here a short article that originally appeared two generations ago, extolling the new working class residences.
Workhouse in Living Memory 2
There was also a piggery. The intention was as far as possible to be self-sufficient in food.
Workhouse 9
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
Workhouse in living Memory
Notes compiled mainly from conversations (1990) between the author John McCullagh and Mrs Nancy Ferrier, former employee of Newry Workhouse.
Entering Newry from the North
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
Charter of Newry: The Context
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.
