Ship Canal history
The Newry Ship Canal was built in the mid-nineteenth century by ‘Thomas Orme and Christopher Myers, Engineers respectively of the lower Lagan and upper Coalisland Canals‘.
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1851 Census Returns: Newry Barony
This is an attempted analysis of one Famine time Census Return. Please read and comment!
Newry & Rostrevor Convents
At the invitation of Bishop Blake, a group of Mercy Sisters set out from Kinsale on 26 June 1855, with the object of establishing a Convent in Newry. They were led by Sr. Catherine O’Connor and included Newry girl and novice Elizabeth Russell.
Sister Mary Baptist Russell
The nineteenth century Newry family, Russell of Dominic Street in Ballybot, played a prominent role not just here in Newry but in far-off California and in England. We have already featured the life of Charles Russell, Lord Chief Justice of England. What of his siblings? His eldest sister Mary died suddenly at twelve years of age. His brother …
Charles Russell
Charles Russell 1832-1900 A handsome bust in the foyer of our Town Hall commemorates one of Newry’s most famous sons, Charles Russell, the only ever Irish Catholic to become Lord Chief Justice of England.
Bygone memories
I have fond memories of The Turning bridges: there were five such on the town section of the canal: at Sugar Island; Monaghan Street; Ballybot; and Buttercrane, where the rail crossed the canal; and Dublin Bridge. This was to allow barge traffic bound for Portadown. A bell would sound in the Harbour Master’s Office to alert people. School …
Memories of Old Newry
Of course you recognise Dublin Bridge with the cattle pens, McNally’s Corner on Ballybot Bridge, The Armaghdown. What are the other three slides of? Answers on the back of a ten-pound note to The Editor, newry Journal ….