Newry News and Irish Fun

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.

Dark Narrow Water your secrets you hold

Though the days are long gone since your knights were so bold

Yet your name’s still remembered when tales they are told

Of you and the lovely Lassara.

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!

What about Hill Street way back in 1914?

This is the list from the Markets to the Town Hall.

A New Orleans lawyer sought an FHA loan for a client.

This is the next in our series of Lists of Residents of streets of our town from former times. These can be utilised in many ways …

Probably based on actual events, the Ulster Cycle of tales constitutes the oldest corpus of secular literature in all of western Europe. It is a cause of great local pride that we of Iubhair Cinn Tragha …

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 …

I read in the paper the other day of a man in remote Siberia who petitioned the Russian President for permission to marry a cow ……….

The men pictured, the Abbey Pre-Junior Class of 1947, are now all in their early to mid 70s.

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.

In the time of the Great Hunger, there were a number of decent Protestant clergymen who took pity on their destitute and starving Roman Catholic neighbours.