It was one of our worse ever train disasters, and all the more keenly felt because the victims were schoolchildren on a special outing.
Railway Tragedy
History
Local Studies Library at risk!
I met Martin Goss in the Irish and Local Studies Library in
Ship Canal history
The
Bailey’s Foundry
This historic building, on the way into Bessbrook was recently demolished. There are very few remaining anywhere in the district. They were located close to rivers where water could be diverted and utilised as a source of power.
Faughart
Faughart, a parish in the barony of
Tower Houses: N Water Castle
The thick-walled fortified Tower House (in town, merely called a Town House) became, in the late Middle Ages the ordinary and typical residence of the Irish and Anglo-Irish Gentry.
Newry Ropeworks
I came across the following extract lately on another website and I reflected on the phrase in bold type. As a very young boy I had looked up ‘Newry’ in an encyclopedia at home, and learned that one of its chief manufactories was a ropeworks!
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 …
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.