The gable house here (the street signs read Church Street and John Mitchel… Forkhill today has become somewhat of a dormitory village with extensive new housing largely… Petie had no memory of Road Bowls or ‘Bullets’ from the Thirties though County Armagh has a strong tradition in this field of sport. Just to keep you on the right side this Yuletide, remember NOT to take down the Christmas decorations before Jan 6th (the 12th day)Church St People’s Story
Newry Military Barracks
Forkhill Village
Crossroads Dances
Drowned in the Locks
Anyway didn’t they have the tarribl’ fallin’-out one day, so bad that yer man said he wanted till end it all and throw he’sself into the Canal across the way. Crossmaglen 1838
Yuletide Customs
put up a New Year’s calendar before Jan 1stFews Glossary: S 2
The White Linen Hall in Newry was built about 1783 to promote the direct export from Counties Down and Armagh of linen products manufactured there and to bypass the services of dealers in Dublin. The spinning-wheel motif and the crowned harp on the piers of the gate date from this period. The crowned harp symbolises the involvement of the state with the linen industry of the time.
There was a husband and wife one time lived down along the Fathom Line near till the Locks there where the ships would put in.
The Ordnance Survey Reviews of times long ago make interesting reading, from time to time. Compare Crossmaglen today with that depicted below!
Scut a mean person, term of abuse to younger person
Seasoned old
Sensible wise, ‘make me sensible’, explain to me
Seep soak, ‘seeping wet’
Sets seed potatoes