Armachiana Volume 9 by Armagh City Banbridge & Craigavon Borough Council

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Armachiana Vol 9 (Armagh County Museum ARMCM.28.2014.61)

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Armachiana Volume 9

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The cont ents of these volumes l a belled are simply notes for t alks to

Armachiana

local and visiting societies in search of

great i mportance but may provide a gui de to

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TGF Paterson

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or on their own distri ct s i n particular .

students seeking da t a on the county g enerally

They a re not of any

and ancient monuments .

material relating to it s historical background

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Parish of Killylea

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Parish of Kilmore

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Parish of Grange

Parish of Keady

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Parish of Eglish

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Parish of Derrynoose

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parish societies.

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to parish histories, the others data for talks to

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Annaghmore, Eglish and Grange were contributions

Parish of Ballymoyer

Parish of Caledon.

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Parish of Annaghmore Parish of Arboe

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Parish of Aghavilly

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VOL.IX

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,. The Parish of Aghavilly is a modern foundation

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but it contains within its boundaries seven townlands

long associated with a monastic order or great signiKnown as the Culdees it was in

ficance in Armagh.

early days responsible for the maintenance of Divine

Service in the Great Church of Armagh, and in particular,

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-Under those circumstances the Culdees formed a

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special function.

the practice of choral worship seems to have been its

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educational work as well.

The Culdee Priory of Armagh

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for besides assisting with the music they engaged in

was situate in that part of the city that we now know

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as Castle Street, a thoroughfare deriving from the castle

Its

site is well documented.

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For instance it is shown in a

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erected there in 1236 for the defence of the city.

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ruinous state on a pictorial map of the city dra'W?l in

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I t pre-dated the Castle, of course, by many centuries .

We are told in Irish Annals that in the year 919

Reeves, a former

establish law and order in I reland .

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Maenach a Celi De came across the sea westward to

Dean ot Armagh and a notable authority on ecclesiastic

1602 and 1s also marked on Rocque • s map of Armagh of 1760.

very important constituent in the economy of the church,

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history felt that the reference arose through an

effort towards bringing the Irish into oontormity

with the rules tor Canons, which had been instituted If so

at the Council of A.ix-la-Chapelle in 816.

then we may presume that the Culdees were functioning

in Ireland previous to the year 919 - indeed 1n that

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st. Martin's festlval. and was

a contrast to the

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That event took place on the Saturday

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that he spared the houses ot prayer with the Culdees

and the sick.

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m.any other raids by those ruthless invaders, who from

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836 until their power was f'inally broken by Brian Boru

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in 1014 repeatedly attacked the city and its churches

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famous Book of Armagh, a work compiled 1n one oi' the

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monastic houses ot the city in the year 807 from older

anuscripts now lost .

The Culdees of that period seem to have been the

ott1o1at1ng clergy or the town churches but by degrees

To that e.ra , however, belongs the

the inhabitants.

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church plate, slaying the clergy and making slaves

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destroying a wealth of manuscript material, carrying off

Godfrey, son of Ivor the Dane, from which we learn

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year the Annals record the plunder ot the city, by

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they grouped themselves particularly around the great

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Church", a site now covered by the nave ot our lJth century cathedral.

Eventually they became the standing

ministers of the cathedral itself and ot various country

parishes of which later.

?hey ware presided over by a Prior and so far as

'?hey

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had charge of the service, and superintended public worship wich was pr1ncipallf choral.

Later wen

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we are aware numbered about twelve 1nd1Viduals.

This must have taken place

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In actual fact the Prior

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existence under another name.

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however, appointed because that office was already in

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No Precentor was,

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Treasurer and Prebendaries admitted.,

A Dean was then created, and a Chancellor,

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shortly after the Anglo-Norman invasion ot which

presently.

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mul.tiply its dig~taries.

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of the Culdees continued in the exercise ot his old

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Precentor now holds that dignity.

It 1s difficult now

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ranking next to the Dean in the same sequence as the

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to definitely date the change over fr01D the old system,

bllt as we know that Marcus, Dean ot Armagh 1s show in

tunctions whilst the community acted as choir, the Prior

Armagh acquired more 1mpol"tance it was thought fit to

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"Calendar ot Documents relating to Ireland.. under date April ~th, ~38, we can accept the office as

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In passing I should perhaps state

then in being.

IOSEB DECANI ARDMACHANI was found in l8~ within

that the seal or a slightly later Dean inscribed

st. Brigid of

the precincts of the ancient church of

evident that it was in use from 12,6 until 1262.

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At the dissolution or the religious houses in

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Ireland 151+1 the Culdee community was wrongly and

Armagh, and that from ecclesiastical records it is

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the cathedral, possessing their own

The Crown at that

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time, however, did not siaze or dispose

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special endowment and government.

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an a1 endage

tbcugh in reality its members were nothing more than

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lands, a property consisting of seven townlands

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(still named the "Seven Towns") the rectorsh1p of a

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It 1s known a s

)receding century - still survives.

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the Antiphonary or SerVice .Book of Armagh Cathedral

and shows the choral parts accompanied by_ the ancient

reli c of that period - i t may indeed belong to the

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nu::iber of parishes and certain holdings in Al'tllagh city .

indeed unjustly regarded as a monastic establishment,

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musical notation .

It formed part

the Archbishop

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Ussher collection and containsobits of the Armagh

Culdees from 1549 until 1574.

We shall now move to the Plantation period.

Commissioners were appointed by King James I to enquire

Upon their return to Dublin from the North they

of great value intended reported "that certain tythes [tithe]

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to support a college of twenty-two vicar chorals of

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16o5.

into the state of the Church in Ireland on Sept. 30,

the cathedral of Armagh had been demised by the ~hen

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was ordered to sequester the tythes and profits

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college and devote them to the maintenance ot some p~or

The Culdee lands

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that ministers might be provided.

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scholars of the Province, at the College of Dublin, so

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were , we know, 1n t~e possession of Archbishop Ussher

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(ancestor of the present Lord Farnham) for a few years

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and during that period were set apart for the upkeep

ot some Vicars Choral .

In 1610 the Privy Council suggested the replacing and re-continuing of the Vicars Choral and, in 1619

Later they were managed by Dean Maxwell

per year .

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from 160; until 1609 and only brought in twenty .pounds

Dean without lawful authority - whereupon the Primate

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King James ordered that the lands belonging to the

the Cathedral ot St.

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Prior and Vicars Choral

Patrick should be leased to the Dean ot Armagh tor

the maintenance of a grammar school and a choir of

singing ,uen 1n the cathedral, reserving a portion of

For some unexplainable

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reason that monarch's good intentions came to nought.-

In 1623, however, an order was made stating that

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built in Market street.

the property for a courthouse and gaol subsequently

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lldlich had lately been discontinued" and commanding that

and sustained in their endowuent.

'or

the death

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grief also, so in 1625 the year

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That particul.ar proviaion seOU1s to have come to

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the said Vicars Choral be replaced in the said church

Fortunately the

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on behalf ot himself and the Crown.

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James, his successor King Charles I claimed the lands

7, i627, a charter

was issued oontirming the church in possession and

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In 16,6 the matter

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reached Westminster and on April

Armagh was

legally entitled to the lands.

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which it wns proved that the Church

demand was resisted and an inquisition duly held at

nthe Church or Ardmagh had an endowment of Vicars Choral

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founding the College of King Charles I in the Cathedral

Church of Armagh - that body to consist

a Prior

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and five Vicars 1n Holy Orders to perform Divine

Service therein tor ever 0 , naming Edward Burton as

Armagh on behalf of

ot the Cathedral Church

Prior

Prio~, a title by whicb in a deed of 16~8 he signs as

the College

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it was discovered that the lands in question had

It then became

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prev1ously been passed to George Kirke, one of his

Majesty ' s Grooms of the Bedchamber.

necessary to rt1111edy the defective title so a surrender

Kirke complied very

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was demanded from both parties.

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their firmness of purpose they were re-instated and

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As a result of

original C"nartar until March 1633.

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quickly but the Prior and Vicars Choral held on to the

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incorporated anew on May 23, 163~, the later document

them to be

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in Holy Orders, and adding four choristers and an

introduction of boys into the choir .

This seems to have brought about the

organist

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number of Vicars Choral to eight - two

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but omitting the office of Prior and extending the

re-instituting the College under the earlier description,

Two months after the foundation

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the Vicars Choral and Colledians of same 11 .

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We have no information as to the progress of the

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re-organized body tor some time afterwards, due to

events in the Civil War ot 1641 and the subsequent

Cromwellian occupation of Ireland.

Following the

Restoration in 166o, the profits ot the lands of the

Archbishop Lindsay upon his coming to Armagh found

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This brought in a

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Succeeding

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Arohbishops of Armagh have taken great care of those

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of the Culdees

We are given a 11st ot them in the

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several times.

towns

I have mentioned the seven

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still in use to-day.

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tvo endowments and the income arising from them is

Killenure

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Aghavilla

Leslegh

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Magherrall

Lisvonowe

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Enoughsegart

Cannadisse.

'l'h.ey were the townlands of'

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Chancery Inquisition taken at Armagh March~~, 162;.

supplementary income of ~00 per year.

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· to purchase additional lands.

the revenues inadequate so he obtained leave in 172~

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"seven towns 0 woold again have been availabJ.e.

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At the date of the inquisition substantial

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remains of the Priory were still in evidence includ-

ing the Hall or main building and two enclosed

courtyards.

Before the Reformation the Prior and Brethren

were responsible for the spiritual needs of the

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four ancient parishes in the diocese or Armagh.

that time the Precentorship was attached to Killevy,

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prebends of Mullabraok, Tynan, Loughgall and Ballymore,

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some townlands of which in 1841 became part of the

perpetual curacy of Aghavilly, the site for church and

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graveyard having been conveyed by the Vicars Choral of

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list of Perpetual Curates and Incumbents of

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Armagh and consecrated in the following year .

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In 1869 the Vicars Choral ot

Incumbents in 1871.

particulars are noted - for instance alterations were made in 1868, and Perpetual Curates gave way to

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the church from 1840 until 1948.

pastors

It gives a biographical succession or the

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Parishes.

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Aghavilly will be found in Leslie's Armagh Clergy and

They also held the parish of Derrynoose,

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Creggan.

the Chancellorship to Kilmore and the Treasureship to

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10.

Armagh gave £100 towards the erection of a glebe

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Registers of Marriages, Baptisms and Deaths

house.

The latter are indeed the best

Vestry Books also .

are available from the year 181+4 and presumably

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of th e parish .

documentary evidence for the foundation and growth

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6 British

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Killynure.

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Lislea

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Enagh

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2 Irish

No infomation as to

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Kenedus

4 Irish

10 British

22 British

Aghercrooill

Aghavilly

Irish

Lisbono

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Poll Tax 1660.

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Bryan o Teage

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Fredrick Ickson

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Andrew Pennall

Robert Hamilton

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John Kennedy

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Thomas Moffett

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William Kennedy

Pattr McKee

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Hugh I Ikellam

Andrew Robinson

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Andrew Bridges

John Manson

Lisbonna

James Johnston

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Richard O Bath

Magherarvill

Donnell o Corr

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James Sloan

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M William Murdagh

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No 1ntonaat1on aa to payers of tax

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£or townlanda ot Killynure and Aghavilly

Robert Harey

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Tenants names PA Manor ot

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Aghervilly

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Bryan Dougan Art o Mallon

James Morrison p

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Robert Kennedy p

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Jas. Rush

Dunkan McFarlan P

John Kennedy

Robert Reanside P

Robt. Smith

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Richard Allen

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John Dougan

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Jas. McCall.

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Saml. Munary

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Thos. Little

Robert Graham

Jas. Tate

John Munary

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Robt. Munary

Kennedys

Lisbeno

Jas • .Little

George Ardree P

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G raham James

John McCarehar p

Enagh

PatrickMcCarehar P

James McCrerry

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Killenure

John Houston

William Munary

John McConnell P

Jas. Bigham

Laur Mauffitt

Thos. Ardree

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Andrew Colwell

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Alex. Colwell

John Colwell

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Hugh Colwell

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Thos . Robinson

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John Johnston Jun. p

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John Johnston Sen. p

Matthew Robinson

Oeo. Johnston

Edmond Hanratty p

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John Friar

Jas. McElwrath

Mahriarvill

John Sloan

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Neale Gormely

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John Carson

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WilliamWeatherspoon P

John Caswell

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Aghavilly

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John McAleavey.

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Joseph Dodd

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Robert Keys

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Thomas Hawthorn

James Keys

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Sarah Johnston

James Hawthorn

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James Johnston

James Hutcheson

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John McMahon

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Catherine McKenna

John Cooke

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Reps. Joseph Couser

Reps. Thos. Robinson

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William Couser Jun.

James Wright

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William Couser Sen.

Jane Couser

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ORI Griffith'ss ValuationON OF 1864

Enagh.

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Judith Keenan

David Conlan

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William Couser.

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Thomas Keyes

Eleanor Jones

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WilliamOliver

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Mary McGurgan

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Thomas Bothwell

Peter Haffy

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John Dobbin

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John Courtney

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Jane Morrison

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Alexander Harvey

Alice Martin

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Mary Jane Smart

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Robert Oliver Mary McGrath

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Felix Garvey

Robert Kennedy

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Osborne Kidd

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Re-v. Edward Thomas

Robert Dobbin

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1864.

John McKee

Robert Mccrum

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Mccrum had a flax mill.

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James Johnston.

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Robert Dunafer

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Sarah Gray

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Hugh Conlan

William Lyons

John Henry

Alexander Boyd

B ell William

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Thomas Mccann

Thomas Hamill

John Bodel

Michael McParland

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Anne Mackin

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C h

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Wm. Fluke

George Kirk

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John Cassells

Wm. Tolt

Agnew

Adam Briggs

John Boland

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Robert Minarry

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William Mccrum (l)

Hugh

John Hamilton, Jnr.

Mary Hillan Ann Mackey

Bridget Brannigan John Kane

William Quinn

Hugh Fegan

Robert Clarke

Robert Kennedy

John Hamilton

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Osborne Kidd

Kennedies.

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1864.

Killynure.

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William Couser, Jun.

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John Skillen

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Reps. Joseph Couser

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William Couser, Sen.

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Thomas & William 011 ver

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James Lennon

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Felix O'Neill

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Henry Dennis

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Samuel Taggart

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Arthur O' Neill

Sarah & Mary Donaghy

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1B6!t, Lisbanoe.

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Osborne Kidd

John Kirkwood

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James Cunningham, Sen.

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Anne Adams

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Kidd had a flour mill .

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Robert Mccrum.

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Robert Dickinson

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John Campbell

Andrew Keyes

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James Cunningham, Jun.

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Ellen Hughes

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William Couser

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Andrew Hashop

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nt ou C

Rose McGurgan Thomas MeGurgan

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Patrick Delany

Leonard Cunningham

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John W. Davidson

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Ann Blackenridge

Peter Harty

Lislea.

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1861+.

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Ar ©

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Felix Connolly.

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John Gubbey

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Thomas Kirk

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Terence McGurgan

Frances McGurgan

James Johnston

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John Allen

Moore

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James

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Thomas McGleenon

us e

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Patrick Larkin

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Catherine Thomson

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James McHenry

James Muldoon

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James McCluski e

John O'Neill

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Peter McAvinchey

Thomas Wynne, Jun.

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John Corr

John McCaffrey

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1864,

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Magherarville

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us e ou nt

C h

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Thomas McAlevy

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Joseph Dodds

Michael Corr, Sen.

Thomas Corr

Johnston

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James

Joseph Corr

ag h

Ar m

Thomas Corr

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Michael Corr, Jun.

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Joseph Haffy

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Hugh Coyne

Patrick Sheridan

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Patrick Rorke

Peter Haffy

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Dennis Murphy

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nt ou

Mary Merry

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John Keys

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Thomas Keys

George Allen

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THE SEVEN TOWNS,

The townlands have had sit1ce l83S a standard

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In that year the first Ordnance survey

spelling.

of the County 'Was carried out and efforts were made

to reduce town.land or place names to a settled form.

For instance Aghavilly which means

the field

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Its meaning is somewhat

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The prefix Enagh suggests a fair or

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Bally-anenay.

Enoghsegart

doubtful.

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The Grey Fort.

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arnill, Aghercrooill Maghayrearnill Magheramll, Mahriaarvill etc. Plain of the old tree.

Lisvonoe, .Lisbono Lisbonna etc. Posaibly the fort of the milkor cows.

Liabanoe.

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Liosllagh, etc.

Magheryarvill

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Ar m

Lislea.

Killynyawoyr Killenure, etc. churoh or wood of the yew.

Killynure.

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Ceanannus, Cennadus, etc. 'lbe name may indicate a head abode.

Kennedies.

variants for the other five towns -

In the 17th century we find the following

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a priest.

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assembly place of some kind, but "saggart" suggests

Aghervilly, etc., whilst

the tow.land that we now know as Enagh is shown as

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as Aghavilla, Aghaville

of the ancient tree" appears in 17th century records

Annaghmore

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Introductory. The parish of Annaghmore was established as a

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perpetual curacy 19th October, 1854, and is therefore It has,

one of the younger parishes of the diocese.

however, an ancient pedigree and can claim descent from

Of that trinity,

of Christianity in our country.

three parishes whose roots go back into the early days

Various traditions

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linking it with the Saint survive, the best known legend

its associations with St. Patrick.

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Clonfeacle is perhaps the most interesting because of

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being concerned with a journey Patrick made that entailed

the crossing of the Blackwater wherein he lost a tooth.

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It was easily recovered - indeed it shone with such

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Another version attributes

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place of honour in the church.

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brilliance that it was soon retrieved and quickly found a

the loss of th~ tooth to a fight between Satan and Patrick

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Clonfeacle' s greatest son was the

meadow of the tooth.

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the generally accepted meaning of the place-name - the

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famous St. Jarlath, a contemporary of St. Patrick, later

Bishop of Armagh in which office he died in 481, the third

in the long list of successors of St. Patrick.

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The two stories· each relate to a tooth, hence

the mouth.

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in which the devil deprived him of a tooth by a blow on

Loughgall and Killyman are also parishes of great The former occurs in

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antiquity and historic appeal.

the Annals of Ulster in the year 802, and the latter

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incorporates a parish on the Armagh side of Blackwater

1mown in early days as Derrybrochus, and so appearing

At the Plantation of Ulster it

its site is well known.

Situate in the townland of Mullanakill

graveyard exists.

in the Annals of Ulster in 668, of which only its

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Anglicized it became

which arose in the 18th century.

latter a close approximation to the present designation

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was recorded as Ballyneskelly and Mullaghnekilly, the

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Church Hill and in that form gave name to a mansion

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lfodern History

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family in the 18th century.

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built adjacent to the old burial place by the Verner

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Following the Elizabethan Wars and the accession of

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were granted to John Heron and created a manor in 1610

Annaghmore and Copney, with other lands in the district

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James I the district was planted with British settlers.

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Heron died in 1616 and was

of that name still stood.

wherein the ruined church

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small proportion of

llllder the name of Aghivillan, an estate that included the

succeeded in the property by his brother, Sir Edward Heron,

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who was later joined by a younger brother William Heron

who eventually obtained possession of the Manor, selling

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it to John Dillon of Castle Dilion, Co. Armagh, in 1620.

According to Pynnar's Survey of 1619 Heron had by then

"built two small bawnes upon the property with pallazados

upon them and ditches a.bout them and near unto them had

with their tenants were able to make 26 men with arms 11 •

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Unfortunately by the time the Muster Roll of 1630 was

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compiled, Heron's tenants had become tenants of John

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We do know though that in 1612

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group from the other.

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Dillon and it is now impossible to separate the one

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John Heron gave Annaghmore in fee with other lands to

John Hastings and in the same year leased to David Morgan

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and the Morgans disappeared during the Civil War of

Both the Hastings

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children, John and Margaret Morgan.

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the lands of Copney for the lives of himself and his two

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1641-42, and from a Hearth Tax imposed in 1664 we learn

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that both townlands were occupied by native householders.

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The story of the Heron Plantation has its chief interest

Space is not available for a

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the grant of 1610.

in the fact that Annaghmore was one of the town.lands in

continuation of the story from the acquisition by the

Dillons onwards as we wish to deal with three families

built some houses inhabited by 13 English families who

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more intimately connected with the parish - the Copes,

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Ensors, and Verners.

On the 8th April, 1858, Mrs. Anna Cope conveyed the

necessary land and on 15th July, 1861, the church was

consecrated by the Bishop of Kilmore, acting for ArchMrs. Cope was

health and died twelve months later.

bishop Lord John George Beresford who was· then in ill-

keenly interested in the welfare of the tenants on her

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She succeeded in closing the Rock Tavern

temperance.

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Loughgall estate, especially as regards education and

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in Loughgall, the last of a number of public houses in

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She died 4th May, 1867.

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that village and substituted a Coffee Tavern instead.

The Copes of Loughgall and Drumilly descended from

He was created a

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family long resident in that county.

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.Anthony Cope of Hanwell in Oxfordshire, member of an old

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baronet in 1611, and in the same year acquired the manors

Carew's Report of that

and Sele, the original grantee.

of Derrycreevy and Drumilly by purchase from Lord Saye

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year informs us that a fair castle of freestone and other

It was situate

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ruins and commonly called Castleraw.

hard stone was in process of erection, a mansion now in

within the Manor of Derrycreevy in the townland of Ballyrath.

It was built by Sir Anthony's third son, Anthony, and was

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severely damaged in the Civil War and so far as is known

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,ras replaced before 1670 by a house, since demolished,

ear the present Loughgall Manor.

Sir Anthony Cope, Bart., died in 1615, leaving issue -

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II. Anthony of Castle Raw who died in 1634, ancestor of the Copes of the Manor in which branch when the English line of the Copes failed in 1851 an heir to the baronetcy was found in the ~ev. William Cope, a direct descendant of Anthony above.

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III. Richard of Drumilly on which property there are substantial remains of a bawn erected some time previous to 1619. He was taken prisoner in 1641 with his wife and two sons and was ancestor of the Drumilly Copes.

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The Copes were an interesting family and are credited

I. William who succeeded to the baronetcy and the English estates.

In 1155 the chieftain of the Macans,

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somewhat earlier.

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The cult of the apple was, however,

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Barony of O'Neiland.

with having introduced the planting of orchards into the

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the then ruling sept of O'Neiland died, and from his

obituary we learn that he was mourned by the Clan because

Between that date and the

Plantation of Ulster references a.re scanty but papers

We know nothing as to what happened

planting of orchards.

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regarding that settlement contain clauses enforcing the

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grown in his orchards.

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of the strong drink he made for the tribe from apples

to thn in 1641-42 but there was an ·abundance of them later.

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1660 it was usual to covenant for the planting of

fruit trees in new leases, and by 1682 cider made in

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the district was being sold at 30/- per hogshead.

Later, in 1689-90, O'Neiland cider was much in demand by

soldiers of the Williamite army, and must have been a

Cider apples have been dropped in favour of

Boyne.

potent drink judging by results at the Battle of the

other varieties - chiefly cooking types and orchards have

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greatly increased in numbers and acreages.

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The Ensor family is more closely linked with the

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They were originally

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of Warwickshire and can sport a detailed pedigree in the

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They were

male line going back without breaks to 1563.

foundation and is still r .e presented.

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parish, in that it has been allied with it since its

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formerly of Willincote and their first association with

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Ireland arose through the marriage in 1612 of Athlanta

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Armagh, with John Ensor of Willincote.

O'Neill, daughter of Ferdoragh O'Neill of Toaghy, Co.

Ardress was then held by the

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settlers in this area.

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The Ensors were not, however, amongst the Plantation

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Lougbgall, the Obins of Portadown, the Blayneys of

Clarkes, a family connected by marriage with the Copes of

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families.

Castleblayney, the Verners of Church Hill and other local

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The present head of the family lives at Rollesby

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branch with Ireland began in 1754 with the arrival of Both were

John Ensor and his brother George in Dublin.

John was undoubtedly

He carried out many

the more active of the two.

many elegant houses in that city.

capable and celebrated architects and responsible for

commissions on the north side of the Liffey, then a

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fashionable district, but in 1762 Lord Fitzwilliam

induced him to cross the river and plan Merrion Square.

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Three years later he laid out Gardener's Row - in the

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meantime he had planned the Rotunda Hospital, the building

He was also the

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by which perhaps he is best remembered.

architect of Northland House, -which he designed for Lord

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Northland, the head of the Knox family of Dungannon, a

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mansion that now houses the Royal Irish Academy.

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He chief work in Dublin,

that we are most interested.

It is, however, with John Ensor•s young brother George

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1766 and was much admired by writers of that period.

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the Church of St. John the Evangelist, was begun about

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Six years earlier he wedded the beautiful Miss Sara Clarke

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of Ardress, an heiress well-known in Dublin Society.

The marriage took place in Clonfeacle on the 11th October , 1760, and some years later the happy couple took up

The connection of the Ardress

Hall, near Norwich.

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.z residence at Ardress.

There was a considerable amount

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of land attached to the property so architecture had

to give way to the management of the estate.

Following

his settlement in County Armagh he renovated the

Clarke home, a house constructed about 1664 on the site

In the house remodelled by him the most delightful

1641.

of the earlier building destroyed in the Civil War of

feature now surviving is the drawing-room with its

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decorations.

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beautifully proportioned doorcases and graceful wall

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During that time members served as High

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The present

owner, Captain C. H. Ensor, O.B.E., is a Deputy

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Lieutenant of the County, and we are glad to see that in

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It may well be that Thomas Ensor will yet

life again.

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one of his sons the old love of architecture has come to

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Sheriffs and Grand Jurors of the county.

centuries.

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The family has been at Ardress for almost two

become an even more distinguished architect than the two

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earlier members of the family that we have mentioned.

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Bran.ches

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We must now pass on to the Verners.

He has our good wishes and he certainly deserves them.

settled in Counties Down and Antrim and in the lat~er

county a Henry Verner is recordei as early as 1653 and

James, Henry, Robert, David and John appear in the

When the family

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Hearth Money Rolls of 1666-1669.

A John Varner

reached County Armagh is uncertain.

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of Loughgall parish made his will 24th April, 1684,

leaving issue -

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Penelope.

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John Varner must have been a man of some substance

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Elinor, wife of William Cooke.

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Mathias then "beyond the sea".

III.

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Edward of Eagerlougher; Will 4th May, 1747; Proved 13th July, 1747; in his will mentions his sons John, Robert and Mathias and three daughters.

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as his will disclosed the fact that money was owing to

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him by Sir George Acheson, Bart., who died in the

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following year (ancestor of the Earls of Gosford) and

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Captain Francis Chambers, member of an old City of Armagh

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The Verners of Church Hill claimed descent from a

Henry Verner of Armagh (Will 10th June, 1724, proved 2nd

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December, 1724) but his relationship to the above John Varner cannot now be determined.

Henry Verner above left issue three sons and two daughters. The second son

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1661-1664.

family, one of whom was M.P. for the Borough of Armagh

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Robert of Termacrannon; Will 6th July, 1747· Proved 10th July 1747· left a natural son and daughter and desired to be buried in Loughgall churchyard, in the burial place of his ancestors.

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David lived at Gillis near Armagh (will 28th October, 1747, proved 16th January, 1748) who left a son James,

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M.P., for the Borough of Dungannon, who had with other issue a fourth son William, born 25th October, 1782,

later Lieutena nt Colonel 7th Hussars.

He represent ed County Armagh

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His in Parliame nt and died 20th January, 1871. descenda nt Sir Edward Derrick Verner, 6th and present

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baronet 23rd July, 1846.

Lieut. Col. William Verner served at Corunna, Orthes, Toulouse , and Waterloo, and was created a

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baronet lives at Church Hill; Worplesdon, Surrey.

the height or hill of the cow.

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Arboe

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ARBQE,

The district or parish was probably · so called because

it was rich pasture land where, in olden times, the cattle of Tradition has,

the neighbourhood were often seen grazing.

Locally it

however, a different origin for the derivation.

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Eventually the fame of

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only to supply the needs of the workmen but to slake the mortar required for the building.

the cow was carried to more distant communities and, as a

We are told that

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consequence, she was stolen one night.

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wherever she was driven she left her footprints and that even

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the stones on which she stood retained the marks of her feet

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At one time indeed certain hoof-indented stones were

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back.

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so the thief was soon detected and the cow brought safely

returned into the lake and vanished from mortal sight.

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After the little abbey was completed the cow

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disappeared.

still to be seen in the neighbourhood but they have now

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passing I should perhaps mention that Arboe was also known

in past times as Ballileagh, a word said to mean "the town of the stones", and believed by some people to have some

reference to the hoof-impressed boulders that formerly marked the route by which the cow was driven.

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cow appeared out of the lake whose milk was sufficient not

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is said that when the monastery was being built, a miraculous

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Having thus briefly dealt with the folklore of the We know, for

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parish we shall now examine the known .facts.

instance, that St. Coleman founded a small monastic house

here about the end of the 7th century and that relics of the. The monastery figures

saint were long preserved at Arboe.

seldom in the Annals but it was still flourishing in the 12th

century when Murchadh O Flaithegan, a paragon of wisdom and

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According to the entry he was the herenach or farmer of the

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instruction, died in his pilgrimage at Ardmacha in 1103.

monastery lands but it seems likely that he was an

In the same

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MaKaug Makillm.ory Omorna.

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century in 1166 the monastery was sacked and burned by Rory

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Following that date there is a gap of almost three

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centuries before we again find a reference to Arboe and by

then it had become a parish, the first rector that we have

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_any record of being Patrick O Kennallas, who was appointed in

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rector in 1535 - in those days the O'Donnelly's

was

In passing I may mention that Malachy O'Dongaylee

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date.

1434, from which time onwards the succession is traceable to

were every-

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prolific and hardy race.

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where from Armagh to Omagh, and indeed they are still a

One matter that we have no information on is how the

to wha.t happened we can only gues.s.

little community fared in the days of the Viking raids • . As

It may be that Arboe

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ecclesiastic holding in right of his brethern.

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was not sufficiently important to· warrant their attention

but as Lough Neagh was a centre from which they raided one Curiously

cannot assume that it escaped their notice.

enough there is no record of a round tower, a feature that

There is, however, the sculptured cross, a

domination.

generally arose at places which feared Scandinavian

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two ruined edifices.

Its door was in its west gable but

The older church at Arboe is the most northern of the

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relic of that particular period and of which later.

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It was a small building with

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describe it architecturally.

In shape and

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and there is now no sign of graves around it.

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an interior space of roughly 34½ feet by 14 feet 8 inches,

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size the ruins suggest an early structure, and it is difficult

this church though tradition so assigns them.

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In 1897 the

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to reconcile certain carved stones of 13th century date with .

stones were preserved in the garden of Mr. A. Treanor but I

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The Abbey though

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am not aware of their present location.

very close to the church is in the townland of Sessia, a

the church"

It is situate in an old

word meaning a wide roomy place.

a townland name said to derive from an Irish

1s 1D Farnsnagh

The larger and later building designated

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place name meaning a sixth part or division.

and very overcrowded burial ground, and cannot very well have

so little remains of its walls that it is now impossible to

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-~ been the first church erected on that site;judging from what

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remains it cannot very well be earlier than the 16th century.

It was, _how~ver, in use until about 1713, in which year a

At the

new church was opened on a more convenient .site.

same time the east window was removed from the older church

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It had a window in the East and West ends and

by 19 feet.

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A Regal Visitation of 1622 mentions this

two windows on the South and North, besides a door in the latter side.

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should read re-built

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church as then being built but it is more probable that it

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Pin Well".

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The

The greatest attraction at Arboe is the cross.

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and a

The graveyard contains some interesting old tombstones

It seems to have

national struggle against the Vikings.

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great flowering of such sculpture was contemporary with the

settlements in certain parts of our island.

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The Cross here mµch resembles the West Cross at

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later when that invasion had taken the form of permanent

arisen not so much at the time the Norse raids began as

Monasterboice, the Cross of Donaghmore the Cross of Armagh, and other crosses of the so-called Ulster Group, and may be

dated to about the middle of the 10th century, at which time

the Abbey of Arboe must have been in a fairly flourishing

The internal dimensions of the old church are 63 feet

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and re-erected in the new edifice.

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-~ It .seems surprising that in the confusion of the

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coniition.

Viking wars that the efforts of Irish artists should have

been concentrated on the most lasting of all arts~ that of

Sometimes the crosses bear carvings tha~ go to

assertion.

carving on stone but these crosses are actually proof of the

show that the Irish craftsmen or artists of those days

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tradition - of which later~ a fact that is true of every

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country, for in none or them did purely Christian art . develop

embodied in the early Middle Ages a persistent prehistoric

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These carvings a~e, however, very different to those on

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the Christianized stone at Kilnasaggart which you have all

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seen, a relic that must have been inscribed and in position

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at least as early as the year 714 but out of such simple

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scenes from . the Old and New Testament.

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things grew, no doubt, these later pictorial carvings of

We shall now study the carvings - but before we do so I

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should perhaps tell you that the earliest account of the Arboe

Cross that I am aware of occurs in a tract relating to

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pilgrimages in Ireland published in the year 1727 which states

that the peasantry of Arboe made pilgrimages to the cross,

At that time it was believed locally that the

other place.

holding that it was better to pray before it then in any

water exactly opposite the cross had great virtue in it for healing man and beast.

until long after the introduction of Christianity.

Pilgrims ;t o the cross went round it

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At the

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upon their knees reciting the appropriate prayers.

conclusion of the c~remony,which took place at the west side, Having completed the

they arose and bowed reverently.

pilgrimage they laid a piece of silver on a stone reserved

for the purpose - for the use of a family descended from St .

Coleman's clerk, a direction said to have been issued by the

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We shall begin our survey of the Cross on the north -

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Considered doubtful by most people but Mr.J.E . Trainor in his gude to Arboe identifies the subject as symbolical of the nails used in the Crucifixion. Professor Kingsley Porter, however, believed it to be a representation of Cuchulain ~he hero of the "Feast of Bricriuu, and assumes that his identify is verified by his attribute, a hound . This he considered an echo of pre-Christian folklore that had found it s way into a 10th century sculpture .

3. The two women disputing before Solomon. 4. Solomon ordering the child to be cut in two .

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2. Moses .

1. The Holy Baptism .

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following subjects, beginning at the base:

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on that side there are five panels - they represent the

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tally with our knowledge of the date of the Cross.

saint in his own lifetime, a factor that does not, of course,

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sequence.

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We shall now move to the east side observing the same

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2. Abraham offering up Jacob.

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suggestive of lions so the identification may be incorrect.

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4. The Ark being borne along - but some authorities

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6. Christ coming to judgement.

The Resurrection.

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suggest . the three children in the fiery furnace.

3. Daniel in the lions den - but the figures are not

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2. David rescuing the lamb.

3. David slaying Goliath.

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1. Cain and Abel.

have -

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Continuing on the south side and in the same order we

Doubtful but identified by Mr. Treanor as the crest of St. Anthony, the founder of the abbey of Arboe.

feeding St. Anthony and St. Paul.

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4. David and Saul under one crown, but maybe the raven

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Tis I robbed my children of Heaven By rights tis I should have gone to the Cross, There would be no hell,there would be no sorrow, There would be no fear but for me 11 •

1. Adam and Eve. You all know the old Irish poem in which Eve mourns in these words -

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We will now conclude our examination by studying the

west face of the Cross - taking the panels as before.

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1. The Nativity.

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identifieation.

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4. The triumphal entry. . 5. Christ taken prisoner. 6. The Crucifixion.

but all are not agreed

3. The driving of the moneychangers from the temple -

2. The Adoration.

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Local Fam,ilie1a,

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The Devlin's were the principal family of the parish

The lands once .formed a district called Munter-

Armagh.

and seem to have held their lands under the Archbishops of

devlin, in other words the territory of the Devlin's, and

The 'territory of Arboe or Munterdevlin seems to have

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consisted of fourteen townlands and one sessiagh, and an

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Archiepiscopal Rental of 1615 mentions Toel McNeal O Devlin,

are so designated on the .Plantation Maps of 1609.

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Rory McNeale O Devlin, and Neale McNeal O Devlin as tenants

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By 1622 three townlands had passed to Christopher

At the

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Talbot, ditto to Philip Cashford and Andrew Twicken.

same time four townlands were demised to Worsley Batten, one

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tenanted or, if so, no names are listed.

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The remaining townlands do not seem to have been then

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and ·Bryan O Devlin in Killygonnalan and Endesor respectively.

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in the townland of Terry McKean, and Hugh Art Boye O Devlin

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Later rentals show that the above families remained

Harris.

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townland to Christopher Stockdale and one sessiagh to William

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in possession of the fourteen townlands in question but we

have not time to-day to examine their tenure of the territory -

pr. Allen Cooke, the founder of Cookstown.

except to say that some of them seem to have been bought out

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The O Devlin's continued and were well represented in Hearth Money Rolls of 1666 .

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Members of the family paid tax

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Art O Devlin.

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Anahmor Annaghmore

Rory O Devlin.

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Buntruan.

Henry O Devlin.

Pat O Devlin

Arachtor.

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Killmiscally (Killmascally) Art O Devlin.

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Cully O Devlin.

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Lurginrool (Lurgyroe).

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Kinkosh (Kinrush).

Shane O Devlin .

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Brian O Devlin

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Phelimy O Devlin.

Tirkwallen Trickvallen

Hugh Devlin.

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Donald O Devlin

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Killogonlon (Killygonlan).

Hugh O Devlin

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James Devlin.

Killymeanah .

Tavanaghmullan (Tamnavally).

Art O Devlin.

Patrick O Devlin

Achycollen (Aghacolumb) .

in the undernoted townlands

-~ Mullaghnihugh

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(Mullanahoe) •

Art O Devlin

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Phelimy O Devlin.

Other native names of that period still resident in

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O Quinn McEtaggart McGlone 0 Kelly 0 Grugan McPatrick McKeey O Lackan.

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At that time the family next to the .D evlin's in

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importance seems to have been the O Canavan•s,a sept settled

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in several townlands and actually then noted in the townland

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then the Leigh's, Gregory's and Stewart's.

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of Killikenna alias Killycanavan - British householders were

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At that time there were no Treanor's in Arboe though

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they were then represented in various parishes in Tyrone.

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They were an interesting family and we owe our first

published guide to Arboe to a member of that old Tyrone sept .

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In an effort to discover the date of settlement of the family

in Arboe I caneacross many spellings of the name, and for

McKreaner MacCrainor Trenor Tranor

McCrenir MacCranor Trainor Traynor

Maccreanor Treanor Traner

MacTreinfir

came under my notice - they are as follows -

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interest sake we will examine some of the ·variations that

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McDally McConaatay McCuigine McLacan McFoldoune McNally McSloy McMukyan

the territory and paying Tax were as under -

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I feel sure, however, that you could add considerably

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I believe the surname derives from the son of

to my list.

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a champion or may more literally be translated "the strong

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Appendix to Arboe. 1666.

Co. Tyrone.

H.M . Roll.

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Dungannon Barony.

(Arboe).

Ardboe Parish.

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Art McGlone, Murtagh O Kelly.

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Killinconly Killycolpy

h ag

Ar m

Cahall O Quine, Henry McEtaggart.

nt y

Ar m

Edmond McFoldoune, Art McNally.

Ballinaguir (Ballymaguire). Shan McEnally

ag h

Ar m

Owen McLacan,

nt y

Ar m

Shan McCuigine, ·Art McGuigine.

Tannaghmore (Tamlaghtmore).

Mullaghglass

us eu m

ou nt y

Sarah Stewart 2.

us eu m

us M

ou nt

Drumore (Dromore).

ag h

William Gregory.

Ar m

M y

ag h

Gortgill (Gortigal).

y John Leigh.

Feyagh (Feagh).

Hugh McDally and Donall McConatay.

Drumard.

Ardboe Parish.

ag Ar h m C © a ou gh Ar nt m C © y a o gh Ar M un us m t C © y ag eu ou Ar M h m nt us m C © y a eu o gh Ar M un m us m t C © y a eu o gh Ar M un m us m t C y a eu o gh Ar M un m us m t C y ag eu ou M h m nt us C y eu ou M m nt us y eu M m u

Drumard.

Hugh McDally and Donall McConatay.

Feyagh (Feagh).

John Leigh.

Gortgill (Gortigal).

William Gregory.

Drum.ore (Dromore).

Sarah Stewart 2.

Tannaghmore (Tamlaghtmore).

(Arboe).

Shan McCuigine, Art McGuigine.

Mullaghglass

Owen _McLacan, Edmond McFoldoune, Art McNally.

Ballinaguir (Ballymaguire). Shan McEnally.

Carnan.

Cahall O Quine, Henry McEtaggart.

Killinconly (Killycolpy?)

Art McGlone, Murtagh O Kelly.

us eu m

Allpendix to Arboe. H.M . Roll.

1666.

Co. Tyrone.

eu m

Dungannon Barony.

Ardboe Parish.

(Arboe).

ou C

ou nt

Killlnconly (Killycolpy?)

Cahall O Quine, Henry McEtaggart.

Art McGlone, Murtagh O Kelly.

h ag

Ar m

Shan McEnally.

h ag

Ar m

Ballinaguir (Ballymaguire).

Carnan.

Edmond McFoldoune, Art McNally.

Ar m

Owen McLacan,

ag h

Mullaghglass

nt y

Ar m

Shan McCuigine, Art McGuigine.

Tannaghmore (Tamlaghtmore).

ou nt y

Sarah Stewart 2.

us eu m

ou nt

ag h

Drumore (Dromore).

nt y

William Gregory.

Ar m

us eu m

John Leigh.

ag h m

Feyagh (Feagh).

Hugh McDally and Donall McConatay.

Gortgill (Gortigal).

Drumard.

us eu m

Appendix to Arboe. H.M . Roll.

1666.

Co. Tyrone.

eu m

Dungannon Barony. (Arboe).

Ardboe Parish.

M ou C

ag h

Ar m

Mullaghglass

nt y

Ar m

Shan McCuigine, Art McGuigine.

ou nt

Cahall O Quine, Henry McEtaggart.

Killinconly (Killycolpy?)

Art McGlone, Murtagh O Kelly.

h ag

Ar m

Carnan.

Shan McEnally.

Ar m

Ballinaguir (Ballymaguire).

Owen _McLacan, Edmond McFoldoune, Art McNally.

Tannaghmore (Tamlaghtmore).

us e

ou nt y

Sarah Stewart 2.

us eu m

ou nt

ag h

Drumore (Dromore).

nt y

William Gregory.

Ar m

ag h

Gortgill (Gortigal).

us eu m

John Leigh.

Feyagh (Feagh) •

Hugh McDally and Donall McConatay.

ou C h

Drumard.

us eu m

Achycollen (Aghacolumb). Patrick O Devlin and Art O Devlin.

eu m

Tavanaghmullan (Tamnavally ?)

Phelimy

ou nt y C

ou nt

h ag

m Ar ©

h ag

Ar m

Hugh O Canuan

Pat O Canuan

Ar m

Hugh O Devlin.

Ar m

Donald McMukyan.

Hugh McMukyan Patrick McKeey

Kinrosh (Kinrush)

Rory McSloy.

Mullan Lower and Upper.

Kinkosh (Kinrush).

ag h

Patrick O Lacan

nt y

(Mullaghwotragh ?)

nt y

Shan McPatrick.

Ar m

Mullaghvtagh

Devlin.

ou nt

(Ballymurphy).

Hugh McPatrick

us eu m

ag h

Ballymurfy

Ar m

Shan

Brian O Devlin

Devlin.

us eu m

ag h ©

Killogonlon (Killygonlan).

Tirkwallan (Trickvallen).

C h

Donald McCuigan Hugh O Devlin.

Patrick O Grugan

Donald O Devlin

(Killymenagh) •

Kill.meanah

James O Devlin.

us eu m

45!!!. Lurgyroe

Lurginrooe

Hugh O Carman

eu m

Cully O Devlin.

(Killycanavan).

eu eu

us eu m

us e

ou nt

C m

h ag ©

Phelimy O Devlin. ·

nt y

ou C h

Mullaghnihugh (Mullanahoe ).

Art O Devlin

ag h

Art O Devlin.

Ar m

Anahmor (Annaghmore) .

Rory McCuigin

Quen O Neill

O Quin

Ar m

Lillach (Elagh)

Hugh

Ar m

Drumany (Drumenny) Manus McSloy

ou nt y

C h

Ar m

Quen O Devlin

Ar m

Pat O Devlin

ou nt

Henry O Devlin.

Pat O Devlin

Clonetoe (Cluntoe).

Devlin.

ag h

Arachtor.

us eu m

ag h

Buntruan (pt. of Mullan?) Rory

Art O Devlin.

Cormick O Lackan

Killrniskally (Killmascally).

Morish O Canuan

Killikennan

us eu m

BALLYMOYER,

eu m

This parish derives its name from the custodians ot the Book ot Armagh

a manuscript cOlllpiled in Armagh city in the

year 807 - the 4:tarllest indeed ot our Irish manuscripts that

can be dated with absolute certainty.

The original surname

the hereditary keepers of the book and the various o.f'.fsets ot

us eu m

w1 th the prefix •Mac" denoting " son

ag h

"Maor" meaning keeper

their .f'am111es eYentually becam• so designated - the word

ou nt

us eu m

One of t h e ~ instances of the name on record

ag h

or• becoming a .f'amil7 designation.

ou nt y

occurs in the Primatial Registers under the year 1367

MacMoer

nt y

Ar m

concerning a debt owed to the then Archbishop by Thomas

ag h

:Sut to return to the Book of Armagh it was also called

Ar m

the "Canon o! Armagh• and its custodian sometimes termed the

nt y

keeper of the Cannon•, a fact that may account for tne

Ar m

Cannons, a still surVinng fami1y name 1n that district.

Shortly artenrards

house in Armagh city.

holding under the Archbishop of

Ar m

Armagh beaides a

to have been time without mind the possessors ot the eight

town.lands of Ballymoyer

the lands were farmed out by the See ot Armagh and the

MacMoyersbecame tenants under the Fairfax family who were replaced 1n the succeeding century by the Synotts - ot whom later.

ou nt

Ar m

In 1609 the clan MacMoyer and their ancestors were found

ot the McMoyers is not now discoverable but there is p~oot that

us eu m

!he last MacMoyer to hold the Book ot Armagh was the notorious Florence MacMoyer (one of the witnesses against the

eu m

Venerable Archbishop Oliver Plunkett) whose autograph occurs

The Book ot

in the manuscript# under date 29th June, 1662.

Armagh was then 1n his possession but sometime previous to

the trial of the Archbishop in 1681 it was pawned by MacMoyer At

who does not seem to have ever been able to redeem it.

us eu m

ou nt

D.D. (later Dean of Armagh and subsequently Bishop ot

it remained until 1853 when it was purchased by the Rev. Wm.

Reeves

ag h

Down, Connor and Dromore) who afterwards transferred it to

ou nt y

Ar m

Lord .John George Beresford, Archbishop ot Armagh, by whom it

was deposited 1n trinity College Library.

us e

nt y

Ar m

Florence MacMoyer the last Keeper ot the Book ot Al'Ulagh

The grave and stone were

Ar m

nt y

"Body ot Florence

his tombstone bore the simple inscription Wyre 'Wilo d7ed Feb., the 12th, 1713•.

ag h

died 1n 1713 and was buried in Ballymoyer churchyard where

subsequently subjected to gross indignities and the broken

ou nt

Florence is said to haYe lived

but is now aompletely lost.

Ar m

atone was later removed to Ballymoyer House for preservation

that name nov

i'here are no individuals

as Glennawyre

Ar m

1n Ballintate and a gl.en in that townland was fol'llel"ly known

11Yinc 1n Ballymoyer - those who bore the surname according

the uecrution

Archbishop Plunkett.

to tradition haYing changed to other appellations tollowing

Lurgan (ancestor or the present Lord Lurgan) in whose .f'amil7

ag h

anyrate by- 1707 it was 1n possession of Arthur Brownlow of

us eu m

And now for a brief survey ot the Synotts.

1'hey were an

eu m

old Roman Catholic family of Waterford descent but Tobias

Synott the immediate ancestor of the Ballymoyer branch His grandson Richard settled at

during the memorable siege.

conformed to the Protestant religion and was present at Deny

fltom the Archbishop 1n 1693 He died 1n 1727

Ballymoyer

Armagh and theroby secured a lease of the eight townlands ot

us eu m

ag h

lea-Ying an eldest son Marcus whose descendants remained at

us eu m

lease.

ou nt

ag h

who .inherited the Ballymoyer

Drumcondragh and a second son Walter (afterwards Sir Walter)

ou nt y

Sir Walter Synott had, with other issue, two sons Marcus

Whether Sir Walter I.t so he must

nt y

erected the old Ballymoyer Bouse is uncertain.

brother succeeded his father at Ballymoyer.

Ar m

and Walter - the latter settled at Ballintate and the elder

Ar m

Seton and she was the mother of three sons.

nt y

'.l!he bride was a Miss Jane

event that took plaoe 1n 1770.

ag h

have buil.t it many years preYious to his first marriage, an

Ar m

I . Marcus ot Ballymoyer(b.l77l, d.185'5) who had a son

Ar m

Mark Seton(b.1820) who inherited the estate from his

nephew and had with other issue a son Mark Seton Synott, a Captain in the ArmaghLight Infantry, who died unmarried in

1901, and vaa suoc.adecl at Ballymoyer by his sister Mary Susanna Synott wife ot Major General Arthur Fitzroy Hart.

ou nt

Marcus of Ballymoyer (b.1816, d.1874) 'Who died without issue, whereupon the property- passed to his imcle Mark Seton Synott

Ar m

Drumcondragh near Dublin and was Registrar of the Diocese of

Hart assumed tbe additional name

ot Synott

us eu m

General and Mrs

and arms

in 1902 and had (with two daughters) issue two

Its histol'7 is, however, somewhat

Armagh.

The Genaal. Map of Ulster ahuws the church 1n 1609

obscure.

us eu m

ag h

Whether the l.ater church bu1J.t 1n the reign ot Charles I was

ract that

us eu m

ag h

ou nt

Ferguson - of whom l.ater - records the

seem llk:ely.

on the same s1 te or not is uncertain, though 1 t does indeed

the vall.s of the church 1n the old. graveyard ware erected then

ou nt y

Ar m

but that the fine oak roof had never been covered 1n and that

nt y

1776, roreign fir was used. In its renovated

ag h

again, circa

Mtenrards when the church came into use

Ar m

the coun'h'y peopl.e.

it remained 1n that state until all the joists were stolen by

nt y

condition it served its purpose until the present church was

Ar m

know. enlarged

l.86S,

Ar m

It was, as you

dedicated to St. Luke.

constmcted 1n 1822 on a site adjacent to its predecessor and

C h

Ar m

to Arma&h 1n the nign nau to haY• been worked tram Armagh when

or UD1ted

or tour old parishes added or Charle• I, and from then

pariah was one

ten 7ears earlier.

Synott 'Who had died

and a chanee.l added 1n memo17 of Marcus

ou nt

the restoration being carried out 1n the Middle Pointed Style

seems to have been an appendage

the parish

In ear~ times Ballymoyer

Arthur Fitzroy Hart.

younger brother of .{ajor General

v.c.,

Sir R.C. Hart,

married

7oungest sister, Charlotte Synott,

r . Hart-Synott

Synott

eu m

sons, Arthur Henry Seton Hart-Synott and Roland Victor Oke

until 177'

SIU'Vi'fing parish

Ballymoyer

us eu m

registers give some intol'lllation on matters relating to

ao7er from 1754 onwards until reformed into a sepa.rate parish.

eu m

The earliest parish school that we knov of was established

in the old Glebe House in 1819 during the pastor.ship of the son of Lord Lifford

the then

Honble. and Rev • .John P. Hewitt

of Armagh. He was at Ballymoyer for .f'oUl' years only but

Dean

Opened in 1821 the school. was

us eu m

v1 th apartments for a master.

.from the Lord Lieutenant•s school .tand, a Parochial school

From a Report on Irish

us eu m

ag h

Catholics as was usual in those days.

ou nt

ag h

150 scholars. The average dail.y attendance then vas, however, 60 to 65, and included Roman capabl.e of accommodating

ou nt y

Ar m

Education made in l.826 we discover that 1n that year Nicholas

and Margaret Matchett were teachers, that the school cost

nt y

Roman Catholics, or whom 23 were boys and llt

females.

and 23

ag h

Church

£200 to build and had a roll of 16 pupils or the Established

Ar m

nt y

ou nt

Ar m

Parochial Surveyot Ireland", rrcm which we learn that two

the parish for Mason's

1819) wrote a short account

In 1816 the Rn. Joshua Ferguson (Perpetual Curate l.803-

Ar m

Be al•o mentions the old house at Ballymoyer buiJ.t

Ar m

to disuse.

lead mines had been worked here but wre then deserted owing

agent ot the Synott estate.

Reid At that time Lurgana was oecup1ed by Mr. William

Walter.

besides Ballintate l.atel.y built by another son

10n Marcrus,

cil"oa 1776 bJ Sir Walter Synott and then in oocupation ot his

1n that time he buil.t, by Yoluntary subscriptions and some aid

us eu m

In the parish there were then rew houses without one to four looms or even six and the women and children spun and

eu m

wound quills whilst the husbands and sons wove excellent they also manutaetured broadcloths• blankets and

linen.

druggets .tor theil' own use and did a small trade 1n pigs and

ChiJ.dren 1.~re trained at an eal'ly period to habits

butter

weaving

us eu m

As regards houses we are told they were neatly thatched

ag h

and white-washed and the interiors generally clean and

us eu m

ou nt

informed that the clock had taken the place ot the hour-glass .

ag h

At that time there was not a single public house in the parish

ou nt y

ot the inhabitants spoke Irish but the prevailing

A. few

Ar m

and great care was being taken to prevent illegal distillation

nt y

Their appearance on Sundays at their

ag h

by a broad Scotch accent.

Ar m

language was English stl'ongly marked amongst the Dissenters

nt y

The

ot both male and female was !Mf1118ntly manufactured 117

Ar m

dress

respective places o.t worship was decent and eOllfortable.

ou nt

pNTalent amongst the youtbf'ul f'emales, and there was a

themselves but, alas 9 purchased finery was becoming too

Ar m

d1spoa1tion 1n the parishioners that made them apply to

They also had

the holdings from 2/6 to

Rents were aocor41ng

cost ot nab work aTeraging £20 per acre. to the qualit1

ot hea,h7 lands were then being reclaimed

A great deal.

a belie.t 1n fairies and lucky and unlucky days.

Ar m

attornies and magistrates on trifling occasions.

ot industry and assisted their paMnts in agneu.J.tu.re and

£1..,.9.

per acre,

us eu m

and all limestone used in tillage had to

d:rawn trom Armagh

eu m

and burned in local kilns on turf fires - peat being then

plentif'nl in the district.

At that time labourers received On the Glebe farm the

1/l per day with diet and 1/8 without.

rate was 8d. per day w:t th diet all the year rouod.

In l.816 we are told by the same authority that •neither property nor riches had been allotted to the inhabitants N•

us eu m

A large proportion

The peopl.e, we are

ag h

were from other parts of the countey.

us eu m

Beggars were to be seen occasionally but they

ou nt

necessaries.

ag h

possessed all. the comforts of life and none were without

ou nt y

Ar m

inro?'llledt were a healthy and hardy race, many of whom attained

us eu

ou nt

h ag Ar ©

nt y

ou C

ag ©

Ar m

Ar m ©

nt y

ag h

ag Ar m

Ar m ©

infrequent.

80 7ears, whilst instances of 100 years were by no means

A few were in a better state of opulence.

5;,

Ballymoyer

eu m

us eu m

Second Report Commissioner ot Education 1826.

Knockavannon Nicholas and Margaret Matchett. Est. Church. Pq. Income £27.13.lt. Good school..

us eu m

us e

M ou

nt y

ou C h

ou nt

C Ar

h ag ©

us eu m

ou nt y

ag ©

Ar m

Ar m ©

Ar m

ag h

ou nt

Ar m ©

Ar m

ag h

m Ar

Joseph McComb. Seceder. Pq £9. l 111serable hovel school house about to be bu.ilt. 1 Est. Church, 21 Presbyterians, Roman Catholics. 18 male and lit female.

Lurginagh

Tate. Peter Kannon. Roman Catholic. Pa,1. Charges trom. 2/6 to '51'5 per quarter. 20 Roman Catholics. 12 male and 8 female. Held 1n a comf'ortable slated barn.

ag h

Cost £200. Bliilt by su.bacription aided by Government. 16 &at. Church• 21 Roman Catholic 23 male and ll+ teaale. Master receives £2 fl'Olll Lord Lifford, £l trom Rev. H. Graves. Female School 1+; pUpils.

us eu m

OF fHE ARCHBISHOP OF ARMAGH 1615 ~ Ardmagh

and !wo balliboes called Lurgenagh At mr ~per an. a l.a Lackan Lishecan

+1mtar 41 Ballemoire

1.61.;.

eu m

Manor

Rental

us eu m

ou nt

us e

ou nt

h ag

ag Ar m

Ar m ©

w1 th a man and garran.

nt y

ag h

and one sessiagh One balliboe Ballentemple At rn.6a.8cl. per an. oae ox two tatt muttons, toure hens, one tatt hogg, two barrel.ls ot oats, ten days wrk 1n Ballintate

Ar m

and Patk. his son.

Ar m

Patrick McImoyre

nt y

and Shane

ou nt y

Ar m

To have two sessiaghs called MULLANY and At XVI per an. One ox 1n every year & half, tw tatt muttons .foure hanns, one fatt hogg, two barrels of oats, ten days work with a man and garran. Tremullagh

McImoire

At MII per an. Two oxen ot two years old, tour tatt amttons, eight henns1 two f'att hogs, tw barrells of barley, liwo barrels ot oats, fw balliboes unsett.l

ag h

a man and garron.

xx days work w1 th a man and garron.

Morria McImoire, Turlo McImoire

oats, xx days work w.1.~h

Cormick McImoyre

and Patrick McImoyre his son.

ag h

1. 2.he Nntal does not discloae the names of these balliboea.

Ivenan and Patrick McIlmoyre flllO balliboes unsetthKNOCKivenan par an,, ho oxen At XVI Patk. McGohigan and Aghnecorick ot tvo years old, tour tatt muttons, eight Toell McDonnell . henns, two tatt hoggs, tour barrels ot

us eu m

Roll BaJJ;xmQYOr, Money Hearth or

eu m

o.s.

Tatri

Patte McSharry Patte McIlroye Turlagh Duffe Mooney Peirce McIlgoy Torlagh McHoldony Bryan O Tonner

Alexander McDonnell

us eu m ou nt

nt y

h ag m

Ar ©

h ag

Ar m

Roland McDonnell forlagh O Convery Patte McIlgalloghy Donnell McIlrullin Hugh O Maddygan Donnell O Lamph

us e

nt y

Knockavannon

Knockevan

Ar m

Connor O Shirrilan

Gillaspick McDonnell

ou nt y

ag h

Patte O Mulcroone

Lurgannah Lurgana

Comick McKeene

us eu m

M y

ou nt

Art McKeone Hugh McCarvillan

Ar m

Patte Grome McSharry

y nt C

(Corlatt).

( Outleckan

Alexander McDonnell

Ar m

Utlacki

ag h

Phellom McShane Phellom McKeever Turlagh McShane Owen McKeone Rory McKeone Patt McKeone Carrowbatt

Neece McParlan Artt McParlan .Bryan o Toole

Comack Boy McParlan Shane Boy McParlan Owen McParlan

Cavannekill Cavanakill

eu us M

ag h

Shane McShirry

Patt roe McShirry

(Balllntate)

Faghecurk Aughincurk

Ballintemple Ballintemple

Murtagh o Tonner

Spellings in brackets.

Modem

Ashe's

us eu m

ACCOUNT OF THE LANDS OJ' THE

us eu m

ou nt

Danniell McKenne Danniell Cullen Patrick Magee

us eu m

cottiers tenants. land.

It is corce arrable

ou nt y

ag h

Phelim Cargett lllbo have each a small 1'a1'1De house with be.mes stables &c &c under them are several.l.

pasture

nt y

Ar m

Outlackan This contains 321 acres Ireiab Plantaoion Measure prGritable land and 91~ acres Ireiah Plantac1on Keasu:re Bogg and Mountain Thady Galloghy & nnder him are James Donnelle Thady Toner Phelim McOwen who ban each a anall

tam bouae &o - l,Qk Galloghe is a Parish

priest 8'

bia house is bu.1.lt with stone and have s~:Ji, • cottier under them are tenants. nus 1 arrabla & panun land &c. s coroe

911+

Ar m

321

It J.s

each a smal.l fume

ou nt

mo have

Ar m

& John Muckelroy

Cavankill !rhis contains 381 acres Ire1sh Plantacion Measure James Savage & under b1m Manus Toner Alexander & John McClelan Andrew Macateere

bouse and under them some smell cottiers corce arrable & pasture land &o.

it.

us e

nt y

Ar m

Correlett !his contains 121 acres Ireish Plantacion Measure Owen McParlon is tenant. 1'b.e l.and is like to that next above. There is no house bltt a;L cabb1n tor his bearcl. And it is under come & stock.

381.

Tate fhis contains 12~ Acres x·r eish Planta<don Measure Paule Moore O Neile & under him are

Ar m

121

ou C

m Ar

Houses and small gaden Plotts. And under them some Cottiers are Tenants. '.?his is a corce GNaaing Fal"Dle. It l.7es in the IIOUDtains on the road to Dublin. There is ot it about acres of arrable land.

ag h

Aghincurke Dus contains 26o acres lreisb PlantacionMeasure Randell McDonnell John O Hughes & Cullogh o Converry 1llho hoe each a Sllall farme House with Barnes, Stables Cov

Acra.

ag h

eu m

ABCHBISHOPS OF ARMA.GR IN 1703

ACCOUNT OF ?HE LANDS OF '.tHE ARCHBISHOPS OF

Ballintample

us eu m

ou C

us eu m

ou nt y

ag h

Knockavannan

Ar m

nt y

which is now call.• d Outlacka

ou nt

Ballelackan

Ar m

Jga Ott

nt y

ag h

Ar m

Lurgenagh 1'h1s contains 1'17 acres Irei.sh Plantacion Measure Randall McDonnell & under hill Henry Glassford William Frisell al.s. Friser & Alexander Donnellson who have eaoh a smal.l house &c. The l.and is like to that above. ill. the above town lands lye together about 8 mil.es tram Armagh and are bounded w1 th Tullevallan1 an West Lisdrumhur South Sir Nicholas Atcheson s Land Eaat and Lol"d Charlemont s Land North _

Ar m

lackan one Mr. John Ball has taken abou-e "20 acres ot land & added it to ~ v a n his own estate. !his as I was 1.ntormed upon the la upon enquj.ry I .find that he 'Who was to ~

be!: :~•:r o

~tear is lonb since dead & I cannot yet meet b e t ~ ~2 tat knovs the Meer• s so wll Primate'ss htow lands as to make out Lol"d

2 acres. It is the oburoh ha! owned and 1ndffd I don•t yet oan proTa the ahurcb ner 1 &nfDOdJ that gaYe orders to enquire tuJ:tnh posaea91cm. 1 tore quere. •r attar 1 t there-

meat~s::~ion ~! Y••~• ©

177

Rent P• an.o6o-oo-oo.

1'h1s contains ?lt6 acres Ireish Pl.antacion Measure John Hanlan & under him Randall McDonnell & under him Patrick Kennan Cormuck Moyer and Patrick Jones who have ot them a small tame house &c &c under them some cottier are tenants. The land is like to that aboYe.

,a.6

Phelim McDonnell who baw each a small tarme house & under them are severall. cottiers. ~ this to'141 land .tomvl.y stood the Parish Church ot which nothing now remains but the ol.d wall.• within which at the east end there grows a luge ash tree. It 1a very good mountain pasture and there 1.s about 80 aores ot it under come & some meadows.

nt C

ag h m

greatest part of 1.t under her own stock. The rest she setts to Florence & Patrick Moyer &

ag •

1h1s contains 619 acres Ir~i.sh

Plantacion Measure. Mr. Edward Courtney an under him 1'he Lady Atcheson who has the

y nt ou C

ard

ott

County ot Armagh.

eu m

Acrs.

ou nt

us eu m

ARMAGH IN 1703.

ASHE• S ACCOUNT OF :ta 1.n11

~GHLANDs OF nm ARCHBISHOPS o,

us eu m

ou nt

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.,.u.s contains 619 acres Ireish • a-.on easure. Mr. Edward Courtney and unde:r him 1'be Lady Atcheson who has the greatest part ot 1t under her own stock. the

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Richard

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County of Armagh.

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John Frizell

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Neale McKee John McCabe Edmond O'Quin

chief' tenant.

Richard Synott, Esq

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WilliamDucky John Paddy M oyar James Moyar Loe Bryan O'Loe Owen Conegan

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R. Quin William R. McQuoen Patrick R. McCoen James PatrickMcParla ndR.

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Richard Synott, Esq., chief" tenant. Under tenants,

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Denis Corl.e7

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R. R.,

Edmond o•Qu1n

Art O'Loo Beale McKee John McCabe

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1713.

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OF THE ARCHBISHOP OF ARMAGH;

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to be the same with Ballintemple

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Daniel McKinny PatrickMcGee ·

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Synott, .lsq., chief tenant.

Richard

DanielMcGee Demod Mclvane

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Aghencorke

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Bryan o O'Lederana. Roger Kennedy R. James McCampbell .a. Bryan O O'Lederan R.

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RJ.chard Synott, Esq., chie.t tenant.

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Patk. O Murchian ll.

Rodger O O'Murchian R. John Palmer C.

PatrickBrangan

Neall o O'Muckian R. Torlagh o Brian R.

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Loughlin Hanretty

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Richard Synott, sq., chief tenant. In this land atanda t e old church ot Ballymoyer

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HART-SYNNOT

BALLYMOYER.

1. Arthur Henry Seton, D.s.o., Major E. Surrey Regt., b. 19 July 1870. 2. Ronald Vic!or Okes, D.s.o., B.Sc. Lond., Lieut. E. Surrey Regt. (retired l90ltJ, b. 24 July, 1879. 2. Horatia Annette Blanche. l.. Beatrice May.

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Maj. Gen. and Mrs. Hart assumed by Royal Licence, l.7 Feb. 1902, the surname of Synnot in addition to and arter that or Hart, and the arms of Synnot quarterly with the arms of Hart. Maj. Gen. Hart Synnot was educated at Cheltenham College, Royal Military College Sandhurst, and Staff College; appointed an Ensign in the 31st Regt., 23 Dec. 18641 Lieut. 29 May, l86z1 Capt. 13 June, 1874· Brevet Major 29 Nov. lu79· Major l July,_ 1881; Brevet Nov. 1886, Major. Gen. Lieut.-Col. 18 Nov. 1882• Col. Commanding 1st Brigade Aldershot1897- 99, and 5th Brigade, &c., South Africa Field Force 1899-1902; commanded the 1st Bat~. East Surrey Regt. 1891-5. He received the 4th class of the Order of Osmanieh for his services in Egypt in 1882, was made a Companion or the Bath 1889, and of the St. Michael and St. George 1900.

Dublin and Capt.

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Town Major of the city

Thomas Synnot

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LINEAGE (ot Synnot). Tobias Synnot, of Co. Londonderey, gent., was brought up a Protestant, and was in Londonderry during its celebrated siege. His eldest son, 1n Luoas' s Regt. of lii'oot 17ll, whose will, dated 10 March, 1724,

and left a son and heir,

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1725,

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5 July,

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Richard Synnot, of Drumcondragh, Registrar of the Diocese ot Armagh, whose will dated 28 March, 1727, was proved May, 1727. He m. April, 1t94, J8l1:\ dau. of Edward Bloxham, gent. of Dublin, and had (with a dau. Anne, m. St. John) a son,

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The late Maj. Gen. Arthur Fitzroy Hart-Synnot, c.B., c.M.G., or Ballymoyer Co. Armagh, J.P., b. 4 May, 18~4; m. 22 Dec. 1868, Mary Susanna, now of Ballymoyer, eldest dau. of Mark Seton Synnot of Ballymoyer D.L., and sister and co-heir or Mark Seton Synnot, of Ballymoyer, J.P., and d. 29 April, 1910, leaving issue,

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OF Ballymoyer

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Mark Synnot, or Drumcondragh, bapt. 8 May, 1696; d. 19 lov. 17~. He m. lst 1 Euphemia dau. or - Rivers; and 2ndly 16 Sept. 1769, Anne, dau. or Walter Nugent, ot Carpenterstown , Co. Westmeath, by whom he had issue,

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2. Walter (Sir), of whom presently.

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Mr . Synnot d. at Grove House, Clapham, 7 June, 1838.

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(1) John, d. unm. at Madeira, 27 Feb. 1839. (2) Richard, d. unm.. 17 Feb. 1841, when the male line of the elder branch of Synnot became extinct, and the estates devolved upon the daus. as co-heirs-at-la-t .. (l) Susanna, d. unm. 11 March, 1842. (2) Maria, m. l+ Aug. 1842, George Woods Maunsell, 2nd son or Richard Maunsell., of Oakly Park, Co . Kildare, and has issue (see Maunsell o:r Oakly Park). (3) Anne Jane, m. 24" Aug. 1843, Mark Seton Synnot, l.ate of Ballymoyer, and d. 14 Nov. 1898i leaving issue. (~) Charlotte Augusta, m. 10 Dec. Sito, Charles Cottingham, only son or James Johnstone, of Drum, Co . Monaghan, and left issue, Charles Synnot Johnstone, 7th Dragoon Guards, d. at Melbourne, Victoria, March, 1878. Florence, m. Mrs. Johnstone d. at Teneriffe 16 Nov. 1853, and Mr . Johnstone at Baden-Baden, July 1870.

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Mark Synnot, of Monasteroris House, King's Co.~ b. 20 Dec. 1777; m. June 1807, Mary, dau. of Robert Wilson of Monasteroris, and by her (who d. l~ Feb. l.841) had

1. Mark, of Drumcondra.gh, m. 28 Feb. 1777, Susanna, dau. or James Nugent, of Carpenterstown Co. Westmeath, co-heir and eventually sole heir, or her only trother John Nugent, and by her (who d. 29 March, 1778) had issue, an only son, Mark, his heir. Mr. Synnot served the office ot High Sheriff of Westmeath 1789, and dying March, 1789, was s. by his only son,

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m. 1766, William Smyth or Drumcree, Co. Westmeath, 1. Mary and by him (who d. May, 1827) had issue .

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1. Marcus, his heir.

1. Walter, b. 12 March, 1807.

2. 'Walter, of Ballintate, Co. Armagh Capt. 66th Regt., Beabeg, near Catherine, dau. of Henry Smith, 1st, •• Drogheda, and by her had an only son,

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2. Roberti m. 1 July, 1846, Catherine, eldest dau. d. 1871, leaving issue. or - Bal Ballintine

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3. George, of Fernside, Geelong, m. 12 Dec. 1844, Catherine Holmes, 2nd dau. of Joseph Mathe!t of MaytoneHo use, Co. Armagh, and d. 1 Julfl .w71, leaving issue by her, who d. 13 Feb. 188,

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(2) George Nugent, b. 29 Oct. 18~9.

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(1) Walter Seton, b. 2lt May, 1847· m. 23 March, 1872, Lucy Emily Nixon, dau, or wi111am Lucas 1 and has a dau. Anna Lucas, b. lo March1... 1873, m. ~O Feb. 19081 Lieut . Col. Sir George Charles Trhomas Steward, K.B. E., c.M.G., who d. 10 May, 1920.

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;. Albert Erasmus, d. Dec. 1859, s.p .

7.w1111am, d.s. p.

6. Monckton, m. and had issue .

4. Marcus, d.s.p.

(l) Mary Jane Cumberland, m. 10 Jan. 1862, David Boswell Reid, and d. It- Jan. 187lt, leaving issue. (2) Catherine m. 26 Aug. 1873, Travers Adamson, B.L., son of Travers Adamson, of Carn Park Co. Westmeath, and by him (who d. 1t- April, 189·1), had issue, three daus . Mary Synnot Travers, Catherine Fanny Travers, and Janet Adelaide Travers.

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Hem. 2ndlyt Elizabeth, dau. of George Houston, and by her {who a. 183~) had issue,

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H.ART-SYNNO? OF BALLYMOYER.

8. Nugent.

Thomas Manifold, and had issue.

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l.. Jane,

2. Mary Anne, m. ll Fab. 1857, Rev. Montagu Williams.

3. Catherine, m. - Cobham.

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3. Richard Walter m. 12 April, J.836, Henrietta, dau. or Henry Thornton, ot Battersea Rise (who d. 1853), and d. 20 April, l8ltl, leaving a son, Robert Harry Inglis, M.A., Ch. Ch. Oxford, 1803, m. Mary, dau. ot - Preston, and d. 12 April, 1872, s.p. and a dau., Henrietta Louisa.

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his heir.

1. Marcus

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Marcus Synnot, ot Ballymoyer J.P., served as High Sheriff, Co. Armagh.1 1830, o. 21 J'une, 177, m. 29 June, 181.lt, Jane, dau.. of Thomas Gilson, of 'Wood Lodge, Co. Lincoln, and by her had issue,

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2. Mark Seton, of Ballymoyer, heir to his brother.

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3. Parker George, b. 1824; m. 9 Oct. 1856, Georgiana fhorpe, eldest dau. of William Verrall, of The Manor House, Lewes, Sussex, and had issue,

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William Forbes, Capt. Armagh Light Infantry d.s.p. 29

l'eb• .u.76.

l. Marcus, b. 22 Jan. 1858. 2. William George. i. Georgiana Constance, d. 1870. 2. Jane Seton, m. 1887, Rev. James Madden Ford,B.A.

Sir Walter m. 2ndly_, 10 Aug. 1804, Ann Elizabeth, dau. o:f Rev. Robert Martin-, and nad by her a dau., Elizabeth, wii'e of Rev. Fitzgibbon Stewart, and a son,

Capt. Synnot m. 31"dl.y, 8 April, l836t Mary Jane, youngest dau. o! Joseph Mather of Maytone House, Co. Armagh, Dy whom ("lho m. 2ndly, Charles MacArthur 2nd son of Hannibal Hawkins MacArthur, M.P.) he had no ssua. He d. 1850.

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l. Mary Marcia, d. Aug. 1869.

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2. Maria Eliza, m. Sept. l8lt-8, R~v. Alexander Rowley Miller Rector of Lissan, Co. Tyrone, and has issue; he d. 1877.

3. Agnes Jane, m. 17 ~u.ly, 1851, Rev. Francis Crawford, Rector of Derryloran, Co. Tyrone, and has issue.

Juliana Hewitt.

4. Barbara Cecilia, m. 22 Sept. 1869, George Crawhall, of The Priory, Nun-Monkton, co. York.

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of Ballymoyer House, J . P. and D.L., High m. 28 Feb. ls>+lt-, Ann, eldest dau.

19 Feb. 1813; Parker, of Hanthorpe

of William

House, Co. Lincoln, and d.s.p . 8

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1. Mary Susanna, now of Ballymoyer. 2 . Rosalie Jana.

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late of Ballymoyer.

1. Mark Seton

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High Sheriff

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3. Eva Charlotte m. 22 Jan. 1875, Capt. Corbet Smith, l.st Royal Dragoons, of WalcotHouse, Lutterworth Co. Leicester, and has issue, Ada Emily Corbet.

K.c.v.o.,

R. E., 2nd son

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Clare Hart,

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4. Cecilia Agnes, d. 20 April, 1928. 5. Charlotte Augusta, m. 6 Aug . 1872, Major-Gen. Sir Reginald

Lieut.-Gen.

Ada

Maria.

7. Annette Beatrice, d. an infant .

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Henry George llarv, and has issue (see Hart lineage, Burke' s Landed

Hr. Synnot d. 1890, when he was s. by his only son,

Marcus ~ot Sheri.1'.'f, 1856, b.

Hr. Synnot d. 3 Feb. 1855, and was s. by his eldest son,

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HARX-SINNOT OF BAI,I,YMOYER,

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crowed or, and vulned in the breast with an arrow gol4,

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Hart: Caler atquo ~idells.

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Ballymoyer, Co. Armagh.

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.teathet"ed a:rg. 2. Hartt A stag• s head between two antlers all ppr.

Mottoes. Synnot: Sine macuJ.a.

(H. Coll.) - Quarterly 1st and !+th arg., three swans in pale sa; ducally iorged or, on a canton gu. a sword 1n pale ppr. (Syn.not); 2nd and 3rd sa., a chevron or between two stags' heads cabosheC:. in ohie! or the last and three swords one in pale surmounted by two 1n saltire points downwards in base ppr. pommels and hilts gold (Hart).

Crest. 1. Synnot: A swan issuant, wings expanded se.., dueall.7

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Mark Seton Synnot o! Ballymoyer, Co. Armagh, ~.P., fol'lllerly Capt. Armagh Light Infantry, b. 181t7, and d. umn. 16 Aug. 1901, 'When he was s. by his eld~st sister.

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The story of Caledon is so linked with the ancient

territory of Minterburn that we cannot discuss the one

We shall,

without some slight reference to the other .

Minterburn as a place name is of great antiquity and

therefore, begin with Minterburn.

Much

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old assembly or crowning site of the kings of Ulster .

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of that great earthen-ringed enclosure still remains and is,

its history begins with the destruction of Emain Macha, the

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two miles west of Armagh on the main Caledon-Armagh road .

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It was thrown up about the year 350 B. C. and for a+most

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the Ultonian kings was captured by the three Collas, and

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In the year 332'the.1.ancient seat of

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the northern province .

seven centuries was the centre of power , law and learning for

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Fergus the last Ulster king to reside at Emain Macha was

He was,

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descendants who acquired Cremorne in Co . Monaghan.

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In the battle Men Colla was also killed but left

Fourth in

da-Crich to whom fell the district of Oirgiall .

McAllisters and MacDugalds of Scotland, and Colla-

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MacDonalds,

however, survived by his two brothers, Uais, ancestor of the

descent from the latter caine O O'Bruin co~monly called Brian Brian was known as Brian of

after whom Hy-Bruin is named .

Archoill and to him fell the inheritance of the territory of

I am sure, familiar to most of you, lying as it does about

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Hy- bruin (or birn) meaning the lands of Brian of Archoill and his people .

Hy bruin of Archoill was a difficult name for

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ordinary use and soon developed into Muntir-Birn, now softened

into Minterburn .

Minterburn, curiously enough, nearly correspmnds to the

The old Church of Aghalow was situate between

of Caledon .

ancient parish of Aghalow from which derives the present parish

As a consequence they

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for the parishioners near Caledon.

petitioned the Most Rev . Michael Boyle, D. D. (Archbishop of

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Aughnacloy and Ballygawley and thus was rather inconvenient

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Armagh 1678-1702) stating they were unable to attend their

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parish church not only because of its great distance from them ,

His Grace sympathizing with

overflowings of the Blackwater .

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but owing to the great woods which intervened and the frequent

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their wishes recommended to the Privy Council that the lower

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part of Aghalow parish should be united to Carnteel and that a

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new church should be erected at Caledon as requested , for

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which a site was given by John Hamilton the then owner of the

On the 27 October , 1682 , an Orde r of Council

Caledon estate .

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was made and the building of the new church commenced , but the

An Armagh Visitation 0f 1693

the Church of Aghalow at Kinard (Caledon) was

informs us that

James II delayed its execution.

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troubles at the close of the reign of Charles II and that of

new built before the late wars, but the roof of shingles burnt

bf the garrison of Charlemont , the walls being good and

standing, and now order is taken for putting on a new roof and

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11 that be done Divine Service is performed in Captain Hamilton's house at Kinard 11 •

From the minutes of Vestry -

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rtunately they survive from 1691 - we learn that the church The parishioners were somewhat

sin use again in 1698 .

pove rished by what they had endured so the internal

r nishings were not completed until some years later, and the

lfry proposed in 1712 was not built until about 1730 .

About half- a-century later the parishioners had so

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creased in numbers that it was decided to erect a new church .

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In 1815 a new roof of slate

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tower was built at the west end .

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is was constructed between the years 1769 and 1782 , and in 178

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d copper replaced the shingles - it was, however , destroyed

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rtion of the roof was also carried away .

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1830 by a great storm in which the copper sheeting of the fl~

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ar theI\ Earl of Caledon offered to pay for lead roofing in

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ace of copper and to be responsible for workmen' s expenses .

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that same generous patron the church is indebted for its

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sh during his additions to Caledon Hill .

aceful spire said to have been designed by the celebrated

There are three families asso ciated with Caledon of whom

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e Hamiltons and the Alexanders .

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must speak (even if somewhat briefly) - the O O'Neills,

figure so largely in the history of Ulster The O O'Neills

~tit would be impossible to discuss them as a whole so we

Jt confi ne ourselves to the O Neills of Kenard otherwise .L

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appear in records until the Civil War of 1641 in which Sir Phelim O Neill, the then o~mer, was deeply implicated .

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obtained custody of Lord Charlemont by abusing that gentlema:

hospitality and in February 1642/43 removed his prisoner to

Kenard where he was murdered by some of Sir Pehlim's followe

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knowledge .

who are believed to have acted without his approval or

Sir Phelim at the time of the Civil War had many Englis

That, however, did not

more solvent than his Irish tenants .

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tenants to whom he had leased lands finding them financially

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save them from disaster, but Sir Phelim 1 s mother Catherine

at grave risk to herself .

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·Hovenden sheltered 24 English and Scots in her own house and

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Sir Phelim was , as you know, at the Battle of Benburb

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Six years later he was captured on an island on·

O Neill .

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1646 and there saw Monro 1 s army destroyed by General Owen Re

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He estate was , of course, confiscated but a

was executed .

Roughan Lake near Stewartstown and following a trial in Dub:

Eventually most of the lands passed to the

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distribution.

had been heavily mortgaged it was not immediately available

Hamilton family whose links with Caledon we shall now deal

Tne claims against Sir Phelim 1 s estate being greater than t

amounts covered by the mortgages, the Caledon portion in l~ acquired by Captain William Hamilton, an officer in Cromwell

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the fam1lY of whioh the

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W.H. 11 and

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Hill in the form of a chair on which are carved the initials 1671 11 •

He died in 1674 .

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The Hamiltons intermarried with the Lowrys from which John Hamilton of a

family the present Lord Belmore descends.

later generation was M. P. for Dungannon 1692 and 1695, and for

He died in 1713 leaving a son who died young ·

Augher in 1703 .

and a daughter Margaret who thus became a considerable heiress

According to the

was certainly in needy circumstances .

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wards Earl of Cork who through the extravagance of his father

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one of the largest fortunes in Europe 11 , an announcement that

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orrery Papers 11 (two volumes) edited by the Countess

In the

much exaggerated .

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must have been useful as regards Lord Orrery 1 s creditors though

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of Cork and Orrery in 1903 there are many letters from both

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Lord and Lady Orrery relative to Caledon and the people of the

I think you will probably find them

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district, written during the ·years 1738 to 1750, a few of which

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of interest - they were written almost two centuries ago .

On the death of the 4th _Earl of Orrery in 1753 Lord Orrery

She did not, however, live

became Countess of Cork and Orrery .

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succeeded to the Earldom of Cork also , so Margaret Hamilton thus

long to enjoy the double honour, dying in 1758 .

Lord Dungarvan

~ , the Earl of Cork and Orrery • s son by his first wife died in 1762 and Lord Cork and Orrery in the same year .

Gentleman • s Magazine of 1738 Miss Hamilton was possessed

and married as his second wife John, 5th Earl of Orrery, after-

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proJ ert. then passed to his third, but only son by Margaret Hamilton, who through his extravaganc e and dissipation was

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first offered to the Stronge family for £70 , 000 and to Armar It is said to

Lowry-Corry later Earl of Belmore for £90 , 000 .

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1775.

have been eventually sold to James Alexander for £100 , 000 in

James Alexander was the third son of Nathaniel Alexander

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Born in 1730 he filled several offices in the old East

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Derry .

of Gunsland, a family earlier linked with Counties Donegal and

India Company ' s service and thereby became a very wealthy man .

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Fifteen years later , in 1790 , he was

advanced to the dignity of Viscount Caledon .

Created Earl of

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elevated to the peerage as Baron Caledon, and in 1797 was

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impoverishe d estate .

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His ·purchase of Caledon brought a new prosperity to an

When the Cape

his ~on Du Pre Alexander, 2nd Earl of Caledon .

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Caledon in 1801 , he died the following year and was succeeded by

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of Good Hope was ceded to Britain he became its first Governor ,

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an appointment which he held from 1801 until 1811 , an

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being so named in his honour .

association which resulted in the town of Caledon in South Africa

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memorial in Caledon demesne erected after his death in 1839 .

He married a daughter of the Earl of Hardwick , a forme r Vi ceroy

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or Ireland , by whom the Tyttenhange r estat e c ame into the family ,

a property of which an int er est ing ac co~nt was published in 1895 by the late Lady J ane Van Koughnet , formerly Lady Jan~ Alexande r and aunt of the present Earl of Caledon.

The property was

compelled to sell his maternal inheritance .

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The Alexander family is so well known to most ·of you that it seems almost unnecessary for me to remind you that the

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Alexander baronets of Dublin, the Rev . . NathanielAlexander, D. D. ,

cander, D.D., a former Bishop of Meath, and the Rev. William Alexander

Archbishop of Armagh, were all of the same stoc~ and that the

most notable living representative is, of course, Field Marshall

Viscount Alexander, the ~re test of the many dist nguished

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soldiers of the late war and a recent Govern r of Canada.

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Derrynoose

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Shown as Derinisse in Papal taxation ot 1302-06. DelJ)ite the tact that it is an ancient pariah hi1torioal ■aanty.

evidences are

villin1 to aecept the parish on the then existinc terms. At tne d11 ■olution ot the monastic houses the

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advowson ot the Culdee Priory was granted to the See of Armagh on or betore 163lt. Accordinc to the Recal

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Visitation ot 1622 the rector was then resident, the church built and a parsonage erected upon the glebe lands.

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etc.

In 1612 the lands ot the terr1to17 ot Derrynoose were allowed to the Dean ot Arma1h and his successors tor enr with pe1'llis1ion to create a manor, courts baron,

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In 1635 Tynan and Derrynoose were united tor one turn only, but on lltth Sept•ber, 1682, they were penaanentl7 linked as one parish under the name of !ynan.

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about £:10 pet'

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That, ot course, refers to the Listrakelt church site. 'fbe value ot the parish at that period 1881118 to have been

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That pha•• lasted until 1709, when an Act ot Parliament vaa pa1aed d18Wlit1nr th• troa 28th Sept•ber ot that 7ear and authorinnr the 'bu1ldin1 ot a ohuroh for

In 1~30 Archbishop Swayne tried to entoroe a better stipend tor the Prior ot the Culdees as no vicar was

••

115

Visitation

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This had previously been mooted at a

Derrynoose.

1701 at which endeavours were ma4e to induce

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the parishioners to build a new church and provide £30 per

year tor a curate.

The church and churchyard were oonsecrate4

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Madden parish.

since called Madden church

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Madden Church was rebuilt in 1812, renovated in

1837, and qain repaired durinc the rector1h1p ot Arch-

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Arrancement1 were made with Trinity College Dublin

deacon Irwin, father ot the present Bishop ot Connor.

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to obtain lands in Madden in 1661 tor a glebe tor Derry-

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Bis successor, the Rev. Wm.

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in the 1l•b• at Madden.

(1726-30) torast trees ware plan,ed in a recuJ.ar manner Ha

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Ussher (17]0-!t-3) lived 1n Armqh but kept a curate

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noose, and turin1 the rectorship of the Rev. Chas. Este

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rectory was then worth £520 per annum.

part ot the reotol'J' baok avenue.

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old roa4 that now

To obtain a 100d site he diverted an

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811th (1812-1823).

present rectory vaa planned by the Rev. Nathaniel

The

tor 1n 1738 be acquired a certitioate tor ao1t1.

••••, however, to have blrl.lt a parsonaca house or rectory

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He does not, howner, seem to haT• eTer reached the stac•

Indeed tb• present rectory was not coapleted

ot bu1ld1q.

and sometimes

Madden townland 1n 1713.

Soon atter the Act ot 1709 a church was built in

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It was erected by the Rev. James Jones (1821-

until 1835'.

At that time the clebe lands consisted ot some ~60

aores.

At the Disestablishment of the Irish Church it was

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In Mr. Jones's time

purohased w1th 53 acres tor £1,;66.

the rectory was worth about £830 per annum.

The Rev. Nathaniel Smith, aocordinc to tradition, was

in financial difficulties when he died in 1823, and his As a result he was

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buried at nicht in the aisle ot Madden Church and the funeral

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friends reared his body micht be seized.

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Jones" upon it.

11 Mary

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Acoordin1 to local le1end his ghost walked because "he had a

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lie upon his chest", became a nuisance to people of the

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rectory

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priest 1n a horse hold on the roadside convenient to the

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district and was f'inally laid by the Roman Catholic parish

above his grave with the name ot

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party commandeered a tombstone from. the churchyard to place

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ancient single ringed earthen fort ot soma almo ■t

square in ahap• 1n the

historical interest,

Believed to have bNn :remodelled by Brian

interior.

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Lisglynn

Oge MacMahon wo entered into rebellion with Sir Cahir

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a tev miles distant.

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and was latel' slain at CargaghHugh (now Curryhughes [Carryhugh]

O'Dougherty and other■ at Lisglyn on 15'th September, 1608,

19.

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LI Listrakelt

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fort 0t tba ooueeeJm1n$)

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Contains site ot the ancient parish church of

Derrynoose a parish mentioned in a Papal taxation ot The ruined church now

Culdee Abbey ot Armagh

1302-1306 and earlier still an appendage of the ancient

repreaenta4 by portions of walls on the north and aouth

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It seems to haYe

whole buildiq ta easily traceable.

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The outline ot the

in the .Reial V11itation of 1622.

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sides seems to be the ed1tioa mentioned, as ttnov built"

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ways remain from wbiob clues mi1ht be obtained towards

but

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more definite dat1nc. 1'he parish tor a period was united to Tynan

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:No window oaaincs or door-

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rude style ot architecture.

wide with walls 2 feet 8 inches thick built 1n a very

It, 1n turn,

now

and

and uncovered

Listrakelt Parish Church unroofed pertomed at Mr. Stewart• hou1e 1n Roughan ••me• ot the Archbilhopric 1n Ashe's Survey ot the

land ■

1703).

1703. and

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Bllhop ot Connor.

ot Archdeacon Irwin a later rector of Derrynoose

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waa re'blnlt in 181a, repaired in 1837 and a1&1n renovated durina the in~benoy ot the late Archdeaoon Irwin, .father

in Madden tovnland and oonaecrate4 in 1713.

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was dilUDited a,ain in 1709 when a new ohuroh was built

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been a plain oblon1 erection about 60 feet by 26 feet

1<2"

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tOllbstones but none earlie r than 1710. l•pert en tort in this townland.

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■any

a:re

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'l'he old graveyard in Liatra kelt is vested in the There Rural Distri ct Counci l and 11 d1srra oetully kept.

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Killyfaddy The best preael'Vlld portion ot this

The Dane• s Cast.

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travelllnc earthwork 11 to be tound on the f'arm ot Mr. There is a much less pertect line on

George Cunningham.

an adjo1ninl farm beloncinc to Mr. Gray

When Mr. Cunningham was a younc man a eap was made

across the trench and rampart1n one ot his fields, in the

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Unfortunately th91 were strung and worn •o

were found.

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sahool by one ot the children of the house, with the

construotion ot which a number ot very old glass beads

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result that eYentuall.J every single one was lost.

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In 1942 I met a Mr. Harry Price on the north side ot

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the cast who informed me that at the north end of hil

dwelling place there was a reputed castle site said to

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have been the residence of a Laird or Lord Stevenson.

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Be alao mentioned that in the same field there was a

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depression, known as the Fish Ponds, and on the opposite

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graveyard field

side ot the road from his house a field known as the

Fort

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Lisglyn

fort of the Glen or Valley

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This specimen ot a single-rineed. fort has been in tbe inner r1n1 at some later date - probably

squared

early in the seventeenth oantu.ey by Brian Oge MacMahon

who entered into rebellion with Sir Cahir O'Dogherty and

others here on the 1;th Sept8lllber, 1608, and was shortly

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It was closed about a century aao The only account

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It was

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we have or it describes it as a stone vault.

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Local tradition

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tree-covered mound called "the Doonan

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A couple or tield len1th1 distant you will see a

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open.

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written in 1848 at which time the souterrain was no loncer

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says a great battle was fought hara in the old days and

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that some ot the slain were buried under it.

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name ot Tamlaghthowever. suggets a different or1c1n.

because some sheep were drowned in it.

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the actual entrance.

This fort contains a souterrain but nobody now know•

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not tar distant. Hughes[Carryhugh] atterwards slain at Curryhughes

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Drumeland A.11001atetl with St. Mochua

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The Blest Well".

Custom lapsed 1n

a place ot pUcrima c• in pa1t day1.

the nineteen th century but has been recently revived.

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the method ot turninc, was

aocording

ill luck

A wishing or cursing stone that brought good or

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corapletel7 destroyed .

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Old

Modern shrine ereoted over the well and interes,i nc old smith-made gate replaced by modern villa type gate.

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secretly buried

throU&h the intervent ion ot the ohuroh remo'l'ed and

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all Eglish Parish As a religious foundatio n Eglish Parish ranks amongst It is indeed linked up with St.

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the oldest in the county.

Patrick himself, for it was his disapprov al of a simplQ

love-affa ir that caused the first Church to be built.

That was over fifteen hundred years ago, but the Parish

bas a still earlier history and one that giyes it a unique within its bounds is

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"Navan Rath 11 , the ancient seat of the kings of Ulster.

In constant u:se from about the year 350 B. C., until

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position as regards Ulster Parishes

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the year 332 A.D~.; this old as-sem:bly,;,.place was the centre

vat~:wi tnessed

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tragedy of Deirdre . a:o.d a hundred other t _xagedies besides.

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On its grassy slopes Cuchulla in excelled in manly arts,

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There

ere it f-ell Upon evil days:•·,

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Thirty-fi ve kings reignEtd there in successio n

Province.

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of power, 1-aw and learning for all the fair lands of the

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and as tlje' calf grew so his

the hill each daY. a bull calf

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and locally the story ·1s sti·11 told of ho.·tf he .carr-ied up

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the Tain 11 the greatest cycle

Irish stor.y.;,te lling.

tbat make

From there fllso evolved the epics

bull to the summit;

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strength increased , until at last he catriEl'd the full-grow n

cairncommonly called the "Druid's

must pl'e-date it :by p~rhaps- a thousand years.

Circle

The Ballybrol ly

Parish.

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monument in the Navan Rath f however ' is not the eceir1.-iest .- .... We

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know that similar and maybe even earlier types of such

monuments have been destroyed within the last century. _O i'iginally it- was known

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Eglish is a fine old parish .

as Clanawle (Cliaun-dubai ll - the meadow of the Dabhall or

Blackwater), a titie now almost _f orgotten, though the name a Poor-Law

is still preserved in the form of Glenaul,

Electoral Division and as an appell,ation fol' a mansion built

daughter

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of Daire, the th,en chieftain

origin to Encnait

Founded in the middle of the· fifth 6entury, it owes its

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by a m.e:nber of the Johnston family about a century ago.

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of the district, wh·a- :bad hi-s residence upon the hill on

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which now stands the. Cathe·d ral, Cl_lui eh of St . Patrick of

She was

·ancient city:.

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first and second churches

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Armagh, and- rroin whom the sa;iriti obtained sites fo.r his

swaet ·v oiced

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Benen, later Patrick•s successor in. the See of Armagh .

St.

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in love with his f8:Y.01irife dis~i:ple, the

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one of Patrick's earlieft· 1:Cl·c ~ :c;9t1v-erts, but ·alas she fell

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At h_er -death she was

upon a life of r'elig;[ous devotion.

attachinen_t, and induced to enter

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fir.nl:y dissuaded from the

Such weakness could not be tolerai;ed, so she was gently but

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festival was kept each 8th of January.

buried in the parish , and for long, long centur-ies her

·1s a greap heap of earth known

In Eglish old graveyard th~re

Toal' s mound -which is

know it, there is no trace.

Of the first church of Clanawle· Or Eglish, as we flow

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said to consist of soil and bones brought from Laraghshankill

over a century ago when that ancient cemetery was finally obliterated.

seems to have been the site

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Laraghshankill

there was, however, a church in

church of Clanawle.

the lo-cation of the first

The site at Eglish 'llay not

of a chapel in the old Grange of. Tullysaran, of which later.

Two sculptured

burial ground suggest

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cross-heads still· su:rtlv-frig

in its

we have no informa'tio:b. as to its date.

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Eglish before the bUil9-ing now in ruins was erectQd, but

a respe.ctable antiquity quite in- keeping with its claim to

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When I

'i"isi ted it last yea:r I learned that Mrs. Elizabeth Allen

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ot Aghatara had celebrated her 102nd birthday in $eptember

she d~des to qui;t this. world for a

Detter.

and would be the last pe:tson ·t o be interred within the churchyard provided

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stands is a'bq-µt, "to be" :i':lo-sed as 1:r egar-ds burials.

~he o-ld graveyard in which it

Church about that time.

has associations with a

who rionftjrmed to ·ti::ie Established

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Donnelly o:f Ballydonnelly

probably

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until 1720 the story

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As t'fi~;t pa--rt1rcular church was not built

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Donnelly

Eglish is waiting to fall

the pre sent ruined church

upon a

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Locally there is a tradition that the west gable of

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Glanawle.

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be the actual :Sit¥-ati0n ,oft the very early church o_:f

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A holy well lies at the base of the hill on the Jos eph Donnelly

west of the graveyard of Old Eglish.

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wno died in 1918, aged about 90 years, remembered it

surrounded by high thorns to which rags were attached.

Unfortunately i~ is now filled in and no traditions remain

One rather interesting item in

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Oneyll, King of

Donald

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in the Armagh Library.

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medieval Registers of the .Archbishops of Armagh , preserved

that collection is a lBtter from

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the Irish of Ultonia, Gormlith daughter of Odopnill

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Queen, and John Oneyll th.eir first born Son't pro111ising to

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Clondawyll. 11

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of which it had been d~rspoiled-, especially the lands of

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restore without delay all lands to ·the church of Armagh

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Masters

the four

woman in her time was more distinguished for virtue

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His wife; of whom the Annals

say

1353.

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The abov~ Donald died in 1325 and Gormlaith his wife

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or possibly at Lough Laoghaire

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Donald was probably buried in the Regal Plot

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Armagh

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and good fame" was buried at the Franciscan Friary in

Tyrons-Fel'lllanagh border, where his death took piace .

Armagh, like Clanawle, formed paxt of the mensal lands

tation ot J.622 ot the A.l'c:hbisbops_, -~ in the Regal Visitation

We have occasional references to tbe parish in the

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associated.

as to the date of pilgrimage or the saint ,with whom it was

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the tenants in both parishes are set out in detail. Primate, s Rentals of later date give simil.ar lists and

know that the parish was appropriate to the Deanery

1699, and that rectors were appointed

of Armagh in

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contain names that survive in the parish to the present day.

it as

but the

late as 1635, ~der its old name o? Clanawle;

state of the Parish Church at even so late a pe,r:iod as that,

1641 11 , though most

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is not mentioned in the "Depositions of

of the other County Armagh churches figure therein.

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is a matter _about which we have but slight lmowledge .

Until

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quite recent times it has been linked up with the parish of

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Armagh, the rector of which received the parish tithes

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In 1767 it was

wide, with a small belfry on the gable .

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f'eet long by 28 feat

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5th of

Ease to Armagh .

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the same year consecrated as a chapel of

It was a smallish building, roughly

August

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In 1720 the church was rebuilt, and on

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sum.

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directly up to 1833, when they were commuted for an annual

repaired, but some thirty years iater it again began to need

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church contains

ancient burial-pl.ace surrounding

Site o:r whi-ch later.

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pre sent

was eventually erected. on tha

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attention, so a new church was thougl;lt to b~ essential, and

_~_-:;._ ,uh,y are very s imi lar to the "Well Cross" _i;1.u

pe tour

Tynan Abbey Demesne .

compartments betwee~

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are now lost.

t;ro interesting cross-heads, the shafts and bases of which

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arms of the crosses are not pierced, as is more usual, but counter sunk instead.

The oldest stone now visible in

the churchyard is dated 1717.

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Eglish, which signifias

"Church", is borrowed as a name for the modern parish from

situate.

the townland in 'Which the ruined church and graveyard are

on a glebe of 64

In i778 the glebe house was built

Esq.

of Knappagh,

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Curate".

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The Rev. John Young was than

the pari.sh.

Perpetural

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for the use

Primate Robinson) by Joseph Johnston

acres,- granted to Lord Rokeby (better known possibly as

At the Di·sestapli"shmeht it was

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small sum of £184.1-2s. 3d.

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to wJ:iolli the parish owed

j_ts- first

recent ·years.

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Mr. Joseph Johnston

bt, ·sale in

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until its disposal

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purchased for the :pal".i"s1:r and remained in use as the rectory

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in which it was built.

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Co. -Down, and

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o.f .The Argory

His

1-artely

and

respon si blf. -for the

Eglish parish

Sheriff of the Courity in 1790) was al;), active

supporter of

an - tld loc:al fam:tly

~ow represented. by the McGeough Bond son James High

Esq., of Drumsill

ifo.

1756 Anne daughter

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or Joshua McGeough

He married in

settle in County Armagh.

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Johnston, of Knappagh, the i'ir-st member of the fam.1.ly

son of James

James Johnston, o-f Tremont,

H.e was the -grandson of the Rev.

glebe house of -which we ba~e any record, died in the year

This old house is said tb have been built for the· very

He died in 1823, leaving

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building of the present church.

an eldest son James (High Sheriff in 1824) who died in

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l838, and a younger son Joseph, of Glenaule, who presented

the paxisb with a flagon and paten :in 1830, and died in

Mary Johnston, sister of. James and Joseph, married

1847.

to which family

The Terris family (now

the Tremont est'ate later passed.

George Robinson, Esq., B.• L., of Armagh

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-tro live

lodgings, a fact.

who .was

p:-~o:ru'in.g a

of the

Library, Armagh

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founder

settled r·esid.ence .

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He . was created

Infirmary

Ar m

f"or the founding ot the County

Ar m

He also

and Camlough, in

~'tl:ler s~~i:h idir:t'ererrt par-ts ·of the built tbe Palace, and :\.ra.$ ·responsible

Armagh; as weµ as

di-oease.

Grange

old

Ar m

ton Lisnadill, Newtowtihamilton

Co.

01.tu:rahes, Jnc.ludfng those of

bfrsi.das ~y

Observatory

ag h

justly famous f'o:f it's mariy 'tre~su.ras, a'1id of the Armagh

Baron Rokeby of Armagh the p,:teceding year,; and thirteen

Years earl1itt he was translated from .KiJ'.\iare to Armagh .

~1'a ~-:-~~st of him in the south ai&I;E! by .__.• .f'amous sculptor Nollekens .

He died in 1794 and is buried in the crypt of Armagh

Ca t bedral.

Ar m

The Archbishop ·was- the

ou nt y

i]?.

la:rgely instri:unentcll

Ar m

evidently disapprov-ed -o.f by Archbishop Robinson

us e

ag h

in charge of' the parish -bad

us eu m

this b.ouse, the minister

ou nt

ag h

Previou·s to the: building

married secondly a

widow, -whose daughter

member o.f that family ..,

James Johnston• s

rap-re sented by Major P .-- Terris) inherited Knappagh .from

qe.

us eu m

The present church was built in 1821 on a site given by the Most Reverend

Stuart, D. D. ( 5th son of tbe

William

eu m

Earl of Bute and Archbishop of Armagh from 1800 until bis

death in 1822), and James Johnston ; Esq . , of Knappagh

Archbishop Stuart is commemorated ·in Armagh Cathedra·1 by a

tablet:.

Eglisb Church by a memorial

very beautiful statue by Chantry, and James Johnston in

The Church was consecrated· on the 25'tb September; 1823,

us eu m

ag h

by the Right Reverend William Bissett, D.D. , Lord Bish-op of

182~); ·acting for the then

the Marques

ou nt y

nt y

material from the old

ou nt

C h

Ar m

£23 . 8s . 8d . received f:rom the sale

and" a sum of

Ar m

donation - of £-312 . 1-s . ld. from: the Primate

loan of £923.ls . 5th.;:~'i";itoin tbe Board o.f First Fruits . and a

church .

us e

nt y

'-eh€! ifemaind"0-r being made up by a

ag h

Ar m

s~bscribed by tbe "~a:¥1.elf,

-~532. Os -. 9d. was

It cost £1; 790 •.16.s.:2.it.:,, . . ◊f wbich

o:f

Archbishop of Armagh 1B2f{..:;l-f!62 .

Ar m

of Waterford

Primate, Lo:rd John George Beresford {j-rd son

us eu m

ag h

Chancellorship p~ Ai'ma~h

ou nt

Raphoe (to which 'dignity he had been elevated f1'om the

D.D.

Rev.. Peter Drelincourt

Ar m

Very

presented 1n 1721 by the

The oldest church plate is -a silver chalice and paten

t ·

s statueby the famous

'lhare i. s a be·aut.iful.

tollow:tng year .

Dr . Drelincourt was then Dean of Armagh, and died in the

sculptor Rysbrack to th~ Dean ' s tQ.emory in Armagh cathedral

His widow founded t~ Drelincourt School at Armagh in

1732,,

«-7 J. and his daughter, Lady Primrose

us eu m

who died in 1775', left

a sum of money that was utilized for the city of Armagh's Primrose Hill derives ;its name from

eu m

first water supply. this lady•

flagon and paten

The parish also possesses a plated

presented by Joseph Johnston, Esq., in 1830, and two alm·s-

registers and Vestry

us eu m

f:rom the year 1803, but those

sent its recor·ds o.f the. Ifish

ou nt y

Church ir:i 1871, so i t· ~-s._j;:f:;f-J .holds all the reco_r ds·

nt y

Ar m

possess~d at that eveinfual period, whereas many of the

ou nt

interesting

Up t-0 about a hundred years ago

as the Vestry booKs .

·so

aspect they are not nearly

but from tl;l.e

Ar m

successive generations of the parishioners; social history

showing as they do the

v:lew,

each parish· was responsible for the repair of the roa<ls Within .1t·s ~ ~ ~ ~ : - l i s h being well supplied wi:th_,..

tbe

valuable .f'rom the

Ar m

The registers that remain are ·vary genealogical point of

nt y

Ar m

troubles of 1922,

ag h

vestry books the other ·Couht·y Armagh parishes pe.ri·shed i°rt the burning of the Four Courts in registers and

Ar m

up to Dublin i'ollo\\d..ng the disestablishment

us e

ou nt

'par£sh-t1.s· :{;bat·

us eu m

Luckily

Eglish was not. one of thos€i

ag h

Books of the parish survive

Baptismal, Marriage and burial

in 1887.

dishes given by the SUnday School Teachers and Scholars

us eu m

"highways great and small 11 , the parish presentments occupy

a large amount of space .

Churchwardens and Vestrymen of the present day may

eu m

find their offices irksome at tim~s, but their duties are

light in comparison with tho·se carried out by tbeir fore-

fathers, who were tbe authority under which the roads of

the district were maintaJ.n~d, and also liable for provision To

children .

for the poor and the care of foundling

us eu m

ag h

ecclesiastical in -charact.91', the law all.owed pirlsh vestries

us eu m

g.:treater powers • . Their

ou nt y

Ar m

of cou.r-sa,

rei.ponsibi1ities arid,

ou nt

ag h

religi-oil .

to levy "ces-s- 0 on all inhabitants irrespective of their

seize the goods of thos:e

us e

who re.fused 'f;o p~.

and

vestry

Ar m

by charges, out ,

fs·w,

ou nt

for comparative purposes .

man w.1. th a horse

be 0~ ihtere st

cart capable o.f drawing a load of

·· s h t·o road workers in by th E3 par1

e Year 1823may

as ·¼tiifl

The scale ~t:_fQ__

Ar m

drastic indeed .

conduct were

we may be sure, for the penal-:ties foi• such

who· dared to ·a.o !:fo were

Ar m

cours e , the -misguided persons

parishioners, 'Who disagreed about parish

nt y

those earlier· -days· were sometimes i:-oughly handlad.

ag h

of Nee'<iless to say,- churchwardens .

ments ' laid on by t,tfe-'.

nt y

warrants enabied them t.-6 enforce collectment of the assessme

Ar m

12 cwts . received ~ . par day-, whilst a man w:t th a hoz:.se

p.roVide for ·thos°e purposes·, as -well as othersmore strictly

us eu m

and cart only capable of pulling 7 cwts. was paid lOd. per

lOd. per day .

eu m

At the same time labourers were in receipt of

day less.

During the great war wi·th

were endless other matters.

Besides looking after church a.ffairs and roads, there

France, for instance, the Milita:ty Ballot Act was put into Each parish

force in -order to secure men for the Militia

In some

£6 ~per

us eu m

concerned it levied a rate .- of

man :for the requi.red

parishes there were ballots, but as far· as Eglish was

ag h

foundlings

th_e parish .

from

of deserted children -

ou nt y

ag h

Then there were the

Ar m

1·n stead or balloting foi a~tual men:

us eu m

ou nt

number, and · ·s o yaid fo-i' i3ubsYitutes (as was allowed),

us e

Hospital in Dublin .

ag h

usually sent up to :th·e foundling

They were

nt y

many instances in the Vestry Book c,:f. i803 .. 1826.

a pathati-c feature of thoS:'1 dEtYS.; .and of ,which we may have

Ar m

nt y

great ha:rdship in t-ak:lng care

ou The

The poor were than a charge on the ·parish .

ou nt

at £1 . 2s . 9d~ per head .

Ar m

children to Dublin are set out

Ar m

churchwardens ·and vestries of those days we're re.sponsible Within their oWtj. d'i.stricts -for most o-f the

The expenses of sending such

of a deserted child

sut.t.efed

"paid Betty Bo'S7d who

Vestry accounts contain such item_s as ttto_,.burying a foundling

Ar m

was by law compelled to supply an agreed number .

us eu m

The Road Vestries give many details of general intere st •

Old almost forgotten fords and now extinct place-names

eu m

Vestry accounts are equally rich in information.

appear.

Fro~ them we learn that the old chUI"ch of Eglish was lime-

A.s a matter of fact, we also get entries Ufor

!Ilanner.

washed and that the interior was treated .in a similar

From the

the washing of the Chur-ch after white washing

us eu m

It was s-iate·d, and tllere are references but a

ag h

to a slat er at }/}d. per day quite f""reqtlentJ.y;

on tlie work and was

p.aid

us eu m

14 days

per day ...

ou nt y

The vreather in those daYs must have been

Ar m

2/2.d.

ag h

by a thatcher who spent

ou nt

schoolroom and stable that weI'e built in 1806 were thatched

us e

again revert .for a f'ew

minutes to the Grange of Tullysaran

nt y

From an Inquisition

nt y

ag h

In conclusion 1 )lbu.ld. like

a pickaxe for the chu.rd3.yard in f'rost 11~

more severe to-o than at present·, as we find entries such as

Ar m

We must, there.fore, assume

of' the reli~'tr~:

that a chapel was situate in that part of the ~onastic Grange, and at the time of the suppression

orders it was of all~ standing, being then known as

Shankill or the old .church.

M y

ou nt

formed part.

Laraghshankill

-of Tullysaran of 'Which

Ar m

Abbey was seized of the Grange

that the

Ar m

dissolution of the religio"us houses in Ir•al,a nd,

of· Arlnagh _we learn that at the period of the

and St. Paul

made in 1609 regarding the lands of the Abbey of' St. Peter

Ar m

wanting repaii'.

same sour·ce we learn tha"t t:he old church was continually

us eu m

You are all aware that the lands of the Abbey of St. Peter and Paul passed to Sir Toby Caulfeild in the closing Sir Toby was a

eu m

days of the reign of Queen Elizabeth.

soldier in hel' service and acquired estates in various

northe~n. counties, but chiefly in Armagh and Tyrone.

By a strange coincidence a Catholic Chapel was bui·l t,

:probably in the last. half of_the 18th century, in Tullysaran

was the site of

us eu m

Peter and St. Paul, of wh±cl'i Laraghshankill

us eu m

ou nt

ag h

We cannot give a the early church ai.re-ady i&entioned, - . . . ~-definite date - for its ,ereciti_ on, but ;i t ha-s been stat~clin

ag h

Coleman I s edition o.f Stuart'ss .Armagh:, that before the build..;.

ou nt y

city.

That wotild piace it _as

Catholic pop.ulatio.tr o:f the

Ar m

ing of S-t. Malachy's Chapel ±n Armagh, that it served· the

us e

nt y

ou C

at Tullysaran was .small · mud.;.waJ.led and thatched~ .

ou nt

stories the first chapel

Ar m

ft>iit

nt y

~er:e- is definite

documentary evidence •

tb:at

Ar m

records one such burning; arid f'o:r

but loctal tradition only

was twice burn(;ld :l.J'y the Orangemen

.According to siir'iiving

The -same autn.or.fty asserts that Tullysaran

much too -earl.y.

ag h

having be:en :in· exist.encie .b efore 1752 - which I thi.nk:· is

Ar m

and three .

people are named as being retsponsible for its destructiob.

Ar m

- appear in the Charlemont Manuscripts

the burning of the ~

A- .a.ccoun t s of

a company raised by .James Johnston in 1796,

They are said to ha\re been 111rembers of the Knappagh Yeomanry

a to-wnland that gave name to the Grange of the Abbey o:f St.

and tbe

Northern Star 11 •

The outrage -took place in July

us eu m

1797, and the Charlamont Papers contain a letter sajing

eu m

that Tullysaran Chapel had been burned and a man's stack

set on fire at Tullygoonigan.

The Press account, l;J.owever,

for_ the

nationalistic in outlo~k~

Nor·t hern ata.r was extremely

It seems more p'fiobable that the

s Yeomanry

wich is significant

or Johnston

does not accuse aitber the Orangemen

There had

three ruffiaris conce.rned were Peep of Day Boys.

ag h

between the Benburb Volunteers .and: Defenders

us eu m

.indeed been . trouble in the dis_tr1ct j;rre.vioti.sly in 1788

be:er1 in existence i:h 1760 .

1797

us eu m

shown oi::l Rocque is Map for

ou nt y

hav-e

was, however, in b;~ti,g "ln

Ar m

the county so it eann{lt

not

ou nt

It is

Chapel.

ag h

of Tullysaran

Wt to return to }he probable jietiod for the buildingIt

arid following ~he burning in

us e

ou nt

forme:riy belonging

It 'is indeed a hands01ne church and

h ag

a ple~sant e~ple of modern architecture.

to the See o:t Armagh

si tad in a townland

Ar m

i.s

Tullysaran but it

Ar m

chapel, al.-a-~; is out_side the area of' the old Grange of

The new

shaped, a .form of building ilo-w fa.st disaPJHfa.ri:o:g.

nt y

Ar m

According t 'o ·the maps oi' J835 the pl.® was T

Artasooley.

down some y€ai's ago when a new edifice was erected in

ag h

nt y

That-, we may assume, was the church taken

Ar m

Lord Charlemont.

that year was repla.~~~ by a .stone chapel on a si ta granted by

SQHE TOWNLANDS OF

PARISH AND DISTRICT

us eu m

THE

Killylea

Aughafin.

eu m

Poll Tax of 1660.

6 Irish.

m eu m

nt y C h

ag m

Ar ©

ou nt

C h

Ar m

John McGell

William Wooderstown Owen McIlmurray .

:-..-: ,-. -_.....

~..__;

Hearth Money Rolls 1664 .Widow White side Robert Cochran

•" ....,..

10 British and l Irish.

Poll Tax 1..660.

~-- ·

nt y

ag h

Ar m

Ballybrolly.

Ar m

Corn Mill O. S. Maps of 1835 .

us eu

ou nt y

John McGeough

ag h

Nicholas Saver Andrew Boyle

us eu m

ou nt

nt ou

Hearth Money Rolls 1664

Ar m

us eu m

nt ou C

ag h

Ballaghy

Shane O Hamill

C h ag

Torlagh O Hamill Sharie O Hamill

Hearth Money Rolls 1664

us eu m

Ballydoo Poll Tax 1660

eu eu

us eu m

us M

ou nt

C Ar

h ag ©

nt y

ou C h

ag ©

Ar m

Ar m ©

nt y

ag h

Ar m

McGilernew

ou nt y

C i6bft.

Lauglin McGilernew Bryan Caragh · · · Henry McCarney

us eu m

ou nt

school was in Ballymartrim

Ar m

William Poole ·W illiam Fflocker . Otra O.S. l8}5'..

Hearth Money Rolls Neale

C }

Ar m ©

-)' }

ag h

Ballymartrim Otra

Money Rolls 1664.

Hearth

ag h

nt ou

f·

Ballymartrim Etra . J J:

Bally scandal.

David Sloan William Wil.son Stephen Oliver William Oliver

eu m

Hearth Money Rolls 1664.-

us eu m

Bracknagh Poll Tax 1660 .

8 Ir ish .

eu m

Hearth Money Roll 1664 .

. .

m eu M

;

ou nt

nt y

ou C

C h

ag m

Ar ©

,. : .'.:,;,

h ag

Ar m ©

us e

nt y

C h

Ar m

School house O.S. map s of 1835.

ou nt y

Ar m

Nathan iel Sachev erall John White.

ou nt ag h

Ar m

Hearth Money Rolls 1664 .

us eu m

Nathan iel Sachev erall, gent ., Poll Tax 1660. nd with 5 Britis h tenant s . townla this living in

.· I ,.• .

us M y C

h ag

Creeve roe .

-I

M ou C

ag h

Ar m

6 Irish .

ag h

Poll Tax 1660 .

Cloghf in

William Kelly .

us eu m

Cullentragh • Hearth Money Rolls 1664.

eu m m eu

m eu us eu m

us eu m

us e

ou nt

nt y

ou C h

nt y

ag h Ar m

Ar m ©

John Bond .

Drumrusk

ou nt y

Ar m

Drumbee and Ballyma rtins Poll Tax 1660 . ., 10 British and 10 Irish. Esq Powell, Samuel Hearth Money Rolls 1664.

Ar m

Born 1757; Birthpla ce of Sir Isaac Wilson, M.D. . Physicia n to Her Maj esty Queen Victori a. died 1844.

ou nt

nt ou C

ag h

ou C

ag h m

Drum bee.

School house o. S. Map 1835.

Torlagh O Hagan Dermot O Murygan Bryan O Dewlin Edmond Carragh Daniel McCuigg Bryan McGloan Bryan Cargagh

Cullentr agh and Tonnagh .

us eu m

DrumsallanLower .

m eu m

eu us eu m

us eu ou nt

nt y

ou C

C h

School house 0. S. Map s of 1835 .

Ar m

Cahir O Connor Con O Connor Owen O Donnelly .

nt y

ou C h

Ar m

Hearth Money Roll s 1664 .

ou nt y

ag h 9 I rish .

Foll Tax 1660 .

us eu m

ou nt

C h

ag Ar m

Ar m

Ar m ©

ag h

Edenderry .

Connor O Ffyn . Pattr. 0 ffyn . Owen McKenna Shane McGarrell Shane O Doole Hugh McQuorte Hugh McConnell

Hearth Money Rolls 1664 .

ag h

Drumsallan.

eu m

Two fort sites O. S. maps of 1835 -

us eu m

Eglish Hearth Money Roll 1664.

eu m

Henry O Mellan Cabille O Neill Cormicke O Murphy Pattr. 0 Byrne

eu us eu m

us M

us eu

ou nt

C m

h ag Ar ©

nt y

ou C h

us eu m

ou nt y

C Ar m

10 P•

· Kilmatroy_. 1 r.

us M y ou nt

Ar m

Killyquin

Kilcarn and Killymadd y .

ag h

Ar m

Ar m ©

ag h

Murtagh McKee Pattr . O Sharry Shane O Sharry Morris O Haghy Edmond O Sharry Thomas Christell Bryan O Conally Shane O Henry

95 a .

M ou

Hearth Money Roll 1664 .

ag h

Killymaddy

School house O. S. Maps of 1835.

,oz.,

us eu m

Knappagh

m eu

eu us eu m

us eu m

ou nt y

us eu

nt y

C h

m Ar

ou nt

C h

ag ©

nt y

ou C h

Ar m ©

Patrick McKee Bryan O'Neile

Ar m

Cullow w~ ~1 McQuade Bryan McGleenan

Ar m

McKee

Mullintur and Laraghshankil l.

ag h

Art McKee

Pattr. McReady

h ag

Ar m

H... Hearth Money_Roll 1661+ .

M y

ou nt C

Groupsd with Eglish and Logan .

27 I:r,iish _.

Pattr

y nt

ou C

ag h

Ar m

Poll Tax 1660.

ag h Laraghshankill

Knockagraffy (Killylea) . 21+ a . 3 r . 6 p~ O.S. map of 1835.

eu m

Pound show on Rocque r s map of ·1760,.

us eu m

23 .

Lisnafeedy

1664.

Lisnafeedy rod Drumcrosse (Drumrusk)

eu m

Hearth Money Roll

m eu

James O Roirke Owen O Hammill Pattr. O Mellan Eneas O Tonner Torlagh McFarland.

1835.

us eu m

ou nt y

ou nt

us eu m

y nt

ou C

ag h

Maydown Maydown.

ag h

Earthen ringed fort shown on 0. S. Maps of

ou nt

The townland was in possession of the Cope family from at least 1738 .

Ar m

C6. Waterford , M.P .- for that county who had w;i.th other issue a son James, M.P. for Co. Waterford, father ( with other issue.) of James of Mayfield, Co. Waterford created a baronet June 30, 1763 . '

3. Edward of Grace Dieu,

1640-41 .

nt y

2. Humphrey M.P. for Johnstown.

Ar m

1. Thomas, M.P. for Gowran who died 11 March

nt y

ag h

Ar m

Edward May married Margaret, daughter of Arthur Donnelly of Ballydonnelly, Co. Tyrone, and dying 8 March, 1640-41 left issue -

us e

Ar m

This towland formerly belonged to Edward May, 2nd son of Sir Thomas May of Mayfield in Sussex.

,aj

us eu m

' Mullaghatinny

m m

us e M

nt y

ou nt

h ag m

Ar ©

h ag

John Pringle Edward Knight Christopher Johnston

Ar m

Hearth Money Rolls 1664 .

nt y

ou C h

4 British .

ou nt y

ag h Ar m

Poll Tax 1660.

us eu m

M y

ou nt

Ar m ©

Ar m

Cullowe McKee Owen Boy McKee Bryan O Ffynegan

Navan .

us eu m

y nt

ou C

ag h

Hearth Money Roll 1664 .

Mullyloughran i; han .

nt C

ag h

Mullantur

eu m

Now better known as Elm Park .

us eu m

Tamlaght

(Killylea.) •

eu m

Hearth Money Roll 1664.

Daniel O Quine Teagge O Hagan

us eu m

us e M

ou nt

nt y

C ag

h ag 19

a.·

return.

s~,a:k~ ~~~~#d .:, ~.f 27

h ag Ar m

:i~?~;_, ,1m,

Maps of 1835.

Ar m

o. ~-

Ar m

School house shown on

ag h

··::=" .

Cormick McCarry

Donagh McCurran Pattr. -0 O'Hugh-

Ar m

Donnell O Donnelly

nt y

Torlagh h O O'Kellaghan

James McCay

us eu m

M y

1664.

ou nt y

~9lls

~ , ; ' ~--

Ar m

eu us

y nt

ou C

Edmond Oge McVagh, gent., 8 Irish.

ou nt

ag h

Poll Tax 1660.

Hearth Money

us M

nt ou C

ag h

Terraskane

M y

C h

Maps of 1835.

Corn Mill

Thomas Ackly

106 ..

us eu m

Tray

20 Irish .

Poll Tax 1660 .

us eu m

us eu

ou nt

C m

h ag Ar

nt y

ou C h ©

ou nt y

ag ©

Ar m

Ar m ©

us eu m

ag h

)

34 p.

Shane O Gallchull Edmond O Teige Phellem O Donnelly

ou nt

) ) )

Ar m

Ar m © 3 r.

Hearth Money Roll 1661+.

nt ou

ag h

Ar m ©

Tullyneagh .

us M

) ) ) )

Tullymore Otra.

31 a.

m eu

ag h

)

Tullymore Agowan

Tullymore E t r a)

eu m

The King's Stables .

m eu

us e

ou nt

C m

h ag Ar ©

nt y

C h

ag Ar m ©

Ar m

ag h

Chapel shown on O.S. Maps of 1835 .

us eu m

ou nt y

Ar m

Hugh Gibson John Gibson

us eu m

us M y

ou nt

Hearth Money Roll 1661+.

Ar m

5' British .

John Young, gent.

Poll Tax 1660.

m eu

us M y

nt ou C

ag h

Tullysaran.

ag h

eu m

us eu m

Tullynichol

IQ~

us eu m

Tullysaran

eu m

The Olivers owned Tullysaran under Lord Charlemont.

(1)

They were a liberal broadminded family a nd gave a plot of

ground on wh ich to erect a chapel for Divine Service. about the year 1809.( 2)

The names of three of the people

was mud-walled-, small and thatched and . was wilfully burned

Later a stone chapel was built but as the Olivers had

responsible have survived, McDowell, Manly and Wallace. ( 3 )

Lord

us eu m

ag h

only a temporary lease they could not do anything.

The people did

She was very

nt y

One of her servants told her of a man

ag h

Ar m

·111 and grew worse:

after her confinement and the baby had died.

She was

us e

ou nt y

About that time Lady Charlemont took ill

Ar m

not know what to do.

ou nt

ag h

refused to grant a lease for the purpose.

us eu m

Charlemont was difficult of approach and Verner his agent

of like troubles.

-whom she knew who had taken several other ladies safely out

nt y

Ar m

Lord Charlemont eventually heard the

and other things ' and was looked upon as a medical man .

Her

Ar m

went to Lady Charlemont and took his lances - with him .

ou nt

man in blood-letting

breast had to be opened for the trouble was clotted milk.

When.

c_harlemont drove

ff·:·~~-~: ! but Lord

she was well he want

She was put upon a diet _and he attended her daily .

Ar m

The man was a handy

sent for th_e man .

story and ordered that a carriage with the fastest horses be

ffflf-' .. --;._' .;; .=,,.

'9'· He would not

us eu m

to see him one day with a handful of gold .

accept it and it was then Lord Charlemont learned for the

eu m

first time that the man was a tenant on his own estate.

When Lord Charlemont h eard that he said I will direct that But the man

a larger farm be given to you or your son.

said I want nothing for myself but I want ground for our

When Lord Charlemont heard that he said I

refused it .

dead and a place for Divine Worship and your agent has

us eu m

ou nt

us e

C h

Ar m

ou nt

nt y

ou C h

nt y

ag h Ar m ©

ou nt y

h ag Ar m ©

Ar m

Terence Macarten car ten, Ballymaculley, August 1943.

Cloghfin . ( 5)

name and that man was my grandfather , Daniel Conroy of

o'W'D

So he gave him a lease of half-an-acre and in his

ag h

it.

ag h

will give you the ground and you can do what you like with

us eu m

Tullysaran 1.

That the Olivers held Tullysaran can be proved from The

eu m

documents in the Registry of Deeds, Dublin.

leasing of the townland by successive Earls of

That fact verifies Mr.

until 1807 is recorded there.

Charlemont to various members of that family from 1761

us eu m

y nt

us eu m

ou nt

It may be that the three person s

ou nt y

Ar m

of Knappagh.

My informant Major Paul Terris

ag h

"Johnston's Yeomen".

There is a tradi ti_on that the chapel was destroyed by

mentioned were members of the mounted corps of Yeomanry

us e

Mr. Johnston had

ag h

as the Armagh Neighbourhood Cavalry.

nt y

Ar m

raised by James Johnston of Knappagh in 1796 and known

which was

property, possibly in 1789, the Colour

nt y

Ar m

earlier raised a company of Irish Volunteers on his

ou nt

It does not

Ar m

disastrous fire there some years ago.

later preserved at Tremont, Co. Dowri, until the

C h

Ar m

But Coleman's abridged edition of Stuart's 11Armagh11 pu?lished in 1900, says_that the Chapel was burned .:t.lr.!;i..c_e by the Orangemen J.U...:t.b&._l.as.t centm and states that _before St. Malachy' s was built Tullysaran sar n d as parish -.abliU'-ch of Armagh l ! a se-rve

seem probable that any sueh outrage could have been

The chapel was burned in the year 1797-~

of 1760.

Chapel not marked on Rocque 's map

being temporary.

ag h

McCarten 's statement in paragraph two about the lease

us eu m

carried out whilst he was in command even in the days of the Yeomanry a11d it will be noted that the Press

eu m

account of the burning does not make any such suggestion .

Th e Northern Star being extremely Nationalist in outlook

The fact that it did

Mr . Johnston died in 1823

not do so is significant.

1809 .

She

Lady Charlemont ' s illness may be dated circa

us eu m

ag h

was the wife of Francis Willi°am Caulfeild, 2nd Earl of

Charlemont, and according to Burke's Peerage t heir

aged 63 years .

th e burning to a Yeomanry Corps .

would, I think, have been delighted to have attributed

us eu m

ou nt

and died 1829.

ou nt y

It seems probable that the baby

Ar m

books of reference such as Burke, Debrett, etc .

nt y

after birth the child would not rank for insertion in

us e

Having died almost immediately

ag h

Ar m

dated circa 1809-1810.

In that case it might be

the last birth in the family.

nt y

Ar m

mentioned as being dead when the incident took place was

ou nt

Ar m

of James Molyneux Caulfeild, 8th Baron and 4th Viscount

Cbarlemont who was created Earl of Charlemont in 1763,

Ar m

The younger son the Honble . Henry

and died in 1799,

He was

He resided at Hockley Lodge.

Caulfeild was M.P. for County Ar:nagh in five successive Parliaments.

The Lord Charlemont of the story was the elder son

ag h

youngest child , Lady Emily Caulfeild, was born in 1808

,~. us eu m

born in 177c; and died 1862 leaving a son James Molyneux caulfeild for whom see below.

eu m

Francis William Caulfeild, the 2nd Earl was born in He served as M.P. for County Armagh in 1798.;.99 and

1775-

bad issue (1) James, Viscount Caulfeild (b. 1803, d. 1823),

He died in 186 3 without

and Ellily (b. 1808, d. 1829).

(II) William (b. 1805, d . 1807); Maria (b. 1807, d. 1823),

last Earl who died without issue in 1892.

us eu m

James Molyneux Caulfeild, M.P. for County Armagh, 3rd and

ag h

~rviving issue whereupon the Earldom passed to his nephew

The Earldom

ou nt y

have been registered.

Ar m

5. The lease does not seem to

branch and thus continues.

us eu m

ou nt

ag h

then became extinct but the Viscounty passed to a junior

Cloghfin

It formed

nt y

Ar m

the Abbey of St . Peter and St. Paul of Armagh.

us e

was also Charlemont property and had formerly belonged to

Ar m

see~s to have been situate in Laraghshankill.

nt y

ag h

part of the Grange of Tullysaran, the grange chapel of which

ou nt

Ar m

fortunes was an officer in her service.

Sir Toby Caulfeild the founder of the fanD;lY

Elizabeth I.

to the Caulfeilds in the closing days of the reign of

The lands of the Abbey of St. Peter and St . Paul passed

In Eglish old churchyard there is a mound called Toal' s

Mound said to consist of soil and bones brought from Laraghshank

Another tradition in old Eglis~

t1na11y obliterated.

shankill over a century ago when the graveyard there was

us eu m

concerns the gable of the present ruined church. Locally it is said that it is waiting to fall upon a

eu m

As the ruined church was not built until

Donnelly.

1720 the story probably refers to one of the O Donnelly's

A new church was erected at

about that time.

of Ballydonnely who conformed to the Established Church

Drumsollen in 1821 and the old graveyard at Eglish is

Eglish must not be

birthday in September last.

us eu m

Elizabeth Allen of Aghatara who celebrated her 102nd

ag h

to be closed following the death and burial of Mrs.

us eu m

ou nt

ag h

gave

A Holy Well possibly associated

us e

churches in Armagh.

Patrick sites for two

nt y

Ar m

Encnait whose father Daire

ou nt y

the very ancient parish of Clanawle and is linked with

Joseph Donelly -who died

on the west of the graveyard.

ag h

Ar m

with the lady in question lay at tbe base -of the hill

ou nt

Ar m

it is now filled in and no tradition remains as to the

Unfortunately

high thorns to which rags were attached.

nt y

Ar m

in 1918 aged about 90 years remembered it surrounded by

Two sculptured

Ar m

saint with which it was associated.

date on which pilgrimages took place or the name of the

cross-heads still surviving in the burial ground suggest a respectable antiquity quite in keeping with its claim

to be the site of thia old Piarish church of Cla.nawle.

confused with the Grange of Tullysaran - it represents

us eu m

Burning of Tullysaran

Chapel.

eu m

One hundred guineas awaI..d

Whereas on Tuesday morning the 7th inst . the Roman

Catholic Chapel of Tullysaron in the parish of Armagh was

And whereas there is every reason to believe

consumed.

discovered to be on fire and was in a short time entirely

us eu m

fire by so':lle person or persons unknown .

ag h

Now, we the under signed inhabitants of Armagh and its

us eu m

ou nt

vicinity holding in abhorrence the detestable proceedings

ag h

of this nature, which have so long disgraced some parts of

ou nt y

Ar m

this county , we do promise to pay the su::n of one hundred

guineas in proportion tq . the sum annexed to our respective

us e

nt y

Ar m

names as a reward to the person or persons, -who shall, in

ag h

six calendar months, from this date discover and prosecute

5 .13. 9 .

5 ~

ou nt

11. 7 . 6.

Ar m

A. J . Ma can, Sovereign of Armagh Joshua McGeough, Esq. · ) Robert Livingstone, Esq . , ) The Hon . Richard Allen ) The Rev . J . A. Hamilton ) The Rev. Thos. Carpendale ) The Rev . Dan . Kelly ) Thomas Prentice ) William McWilliams ) Chas . Whittington ) Talbot Jones ) George Swage ) Edward Quinn Richard Whittington Charles Cavanagh Dennis McKee Silvester Quinn )

nt y

Ar m

to conviction the perpetrators of the above atrocious crime .

that the said Chapel was wilfully and maliciously set . on

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M C

h ag

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ou nt

nt y

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ag h

nt y

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) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) )

us e

ou nt y

) ) ) ) ) )

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us eu m

ou nt

Ar m

3.. 8 .. ).

ag h

John Prentice John Bleakly Thos. Bleakly Peter Christy William Girvin Wm. Sloan Andrew Davidson John Hall · Tbos . Walsh Wm . Andrews .John Bolton Thos . Simpson Thos .. Campbell Samuel Carson George Campbell John Brown Benson Nicholson James Stephens John Singleton James Cuming John Kerr John Harvey William Campbell 'G eorge Hamilton

Ar m

) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) )

ou C

ag h ©

eu m

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John Marshall, Esq. Robert Jackson, Esq. The Rev . Thos . Cumings Ed. Atkinson, Esq. Luke Mccann, Esq. Thomas Dobbin Leonard Dobbin William Cochran Robert Cochran John Robnett George Barnes Andrew Mazure George Waugh . Alexander Prentice James Stuart George Murray Thomas Greer Rev. Thos. Rudcliff Hugh Quigley

nt y

ou nt

us us eu m

us eu m

us e

nt y

us eu m

eu m

M 1797

) ) ) ) )

ou nt y

ou nt

iz,

ag h

h M_arch 1-3 to

Ar m

ag h

ag John Pooler Jam·es Maculla · John Waugh Lee McKinstry Rev . Mr . 0'Hanlon

Ar m

ag h

m {it·,s.

I ~. 5. 6.

us eu m

When t .1e parish priest of Ballykilbeg was collecting

for the cost of building a new chapel he called on the

eu m

yell-known Orange leader, Mr. Johnson, and solicited a

Mr . Johnson received him with much

subscription.

cordiality but explained that his position as Grand Master

would not per:ni.t of his subscribing to the building of a

us eu m

Some weeks later Mr . Johnson

ag h

us eu m

parted Mr . Johnson said to the priest

I was thinking over

ou nt

They stopped for a chat, and before they

ag h

m Ar

happened to meet his friend the priest out walking one

ou nt y

Ar m

that matter since I saw you, father , and although I am

us e

still convinced that my position in the Order debars me

nt y

ou nt

ag ©

Ar m

Ar m ©

And b e gave

the priest a handsome cheque .

Ar m

towards the cost of pulling dow.n an old one 11 •

nt y

ag h

the same time I see no reason why I might not contribute

Ar m

from subscribing to the cost of building a new chapel, at

parted very good friends .

afternoon .

Of course, the priest understood and they

Orangemen.

Roman Catholic Chapel without giving scandal to his fellow

CO. TYRONE

us eu m

Eglish

eu m

fhe very ancient parish was joined to Clonfeacle in

1674 in t e reign of Charles II, but in so far as the

native population was con.cerned the old site remained the

place of burial do\lJil the centuries, and in the 18th century

In 1819 thirty-eight townlands were

us eu m

somewhat different.

As regards the Church of Ireland the situation is

became again the location of a church .

These were grouped

ou nt

part of the old parish of Eglish.

ag h

taken from Clonfeacle - lands which in earlier days formed

Three

us eu m

ag h

under a district parish and named Derrygotrevy.

ou nt y

Ar m

us e

nt y

towards Dungannon .

with a square tower which we shall see as we continue

years before a Church has been erected, a plain building

ag h

Ar m

At Eglish the crowded and very high graveyard suggests

nt y

long usage as a place of burial and I never pass it without

at least say that he rests within the little cemetery.

ou nt

Ar m

know the exact spot in which he lies but the memorial could

Ar m

was one of the most notable harpists of the 0 O'Neill

He was born near here in the year 1728 and

18th century .

died at Maydown , Co . Armagh , in 1816 , aged 88 years .

stock and was much more a man of the came ot good O O'Neill

It is true that we do not

0 O'Neill,the celebrated harper .

Ar m

feeling that it should contain some memorial to Arthur

ll~ world tha

us eu m

. of his contemporaries, and indeed a superb

performer on the harp.

In his day he travelled all over

eu m

Ireland and was a welcome guest in the mansions of the

nobility and gentry and equally at home among the less

had many friends in County Armagh.

Patrick

well-to-do of the community, especially at weddings.

Lyndon of the Fews, one of the county ' s finest harpers,

He played

us eu m

at Fairlawn, now Tynan Abbey, at Alexander Stewart's of

ag h

Acton where he first met Bunting, at Mount Irwin, at

was one of his oldest links - of which later.

us eu m

ou nt

ag h

Observatory ' s first Director, and, of course,

Armagh

ou nt y

Ar m

dozens of other places of which we have no note.

nt y

in Belfast in

nt y

Armagh in 1773 and died.in 1843.

Ha and O Neill were

Ar m

Bunting , as you all know, was born in the city of

1792 .

ag h

friends arranged a gathering of harpist

Ar m

of Armagh , the great colkector of Irish Airs, and his

us e

He came into spacial prominence when Edward Bunting

Ar m

great friends and indeed O Neill ' s appreciation of

country 1 s most pleasant readin_g . •

ou nt

Bunting ' s effort to preserve the ancient music of the

Ar m

0 O'Neill attended the Harp Festival in Belfast.

1tas then returning from the south and on his way paid a

'Visit to Lyndon of the Fews who was in a somewhat

barrassed condition , and without suitable clothing for

Father O Neill ' s of Ballymacnab, at Dr . Hamilton ' s later

120.

aaldJlg an appearance at a public function.

us eu m

with 0 O'Neill

enerosity shared the contents of his wardrobe

his usual

eu m

v1th Lyndon, besides providing him with some cash,

Lyndon, having

Alas! for good intentions.

date.

confid~tly expecting that he would follow on the appointed

all the houses of

money .for his pocket, began a tour

suitable attire for showing himself to his friends and some

call in the Fews and s-0 enjoyed himself that he never

us eu m

ag h

reached Belf'ast at all, whi_ch ~s a pity for one of his

pu.pils, Paddy Quinn of Portadown, found favour with the

In passing

us eu m

ou nt

ag h

judges and was indeed a credit to his teacher.

ou nt y

was the youngest performer present - but unfortunately we

Ar m

I may mention that William Carr 0£ Armagh, aged 15' years,

us e

ag h

O Neill was a bit of a beau as far as dress was

nt y

Ar m

concerned, and his best coats were adorned with silver

nt y

in 1812.

Ar m

1745, died

know nothing fuxther about him. · Quinn who was born in

ou nt

Ar m

He became Preceptor to the Belfast Harp

crest. the O O'Neill

buttons as large as half-crowns, bearing his initials and

Society on its formation on St . Patrick ' s Day 1808, and on

Ar m

His harp has been preserved and 1s

&nllum trom the Society .

bis retirement from that post received_ an annuity of £30 per

nov 1n the Belfast Museum and we have a portrait in Armagh:.

An autobiography exists but I have only discussed such as 8

travels aDd friends.

e ot Armagh interest , although this gives much info:qi«tion

us eu m

At one of the earlier meetings of this study group it was suggested tha t soma attention should be devoted to

eu m

folk tradition in the parish of A.rmi:1gh, so I propose to

discuss the possibilities of the collection of such material .

Personally I am more interested in the purely

The lore

historical side than in the realm of tradition.

of the countryside has, however, its value but unfortunately

us eu m

practically put an end to= the little gatherings in country

ag h

houses at "1hich such matters were debated and old stories

the present trend of life and its many amenities has

ou nt y

nt y

us e

I can perhaps best

Ar m

but it mostly contains a core 0£ fact.

T~adition cannot always be accepted as correct,

critically.

Ar m

Such narratives must, of course, be examined

us eu m

ou nt

ag h

customs, festivals, p·a st events, etc.

nt y

I shall read it and we shall then

Ar m

ing Tullysaran Chapel.

ag h

illustrate that pOint by a story told to me in 1943 coricern-

ou nt

h ag m

Ar ©

h ag

Ar m ©

Ar m

documentary and printed evidence.

examine it carefru.1y by -checking it against available

re-told of happariings in such areas - tales dealing with

us eu m

Grange

Grange as a pariah only dates back to 1772.

eu m

Pnnous to that year it fol'llled part ot the large and

wnd.eldl.T parish ot Armagh, a district that then also

M.P. ot Castle dillon,

us eu m

Aru.gh, tather ot the lt-th and 5th baronets, builder

ag h

eo.

Bart.,

Honble. ·Sir Capel Molyneux,

The site tor the church was given bJ" the Right

1n 1782 ot the Volunteer Obelisk, a wall-known local

ou C

Ballymoyer

1Doluded the pNHnt parishes ot Lisnadill, Eglish and

us eu m

ou nt

ag h

aore 1'ull.J' later.

nt y

us e

ou nt y

Ar m

BJ 1773 the ohuroh was oompleted and serTed tirat as a chapel of ease to Armagh. In 1776, however, 1 t bee... a Perpetual cuarcy under the charge ot the Rn.

ou nt

Ar m

WOUl4 be 1.Jdereating to diacuas the auooeas1on 11st 1n

nt y

Ar m

ag h

Thomas English a tormer Vicar-Choral ot Armagh Cathedral., vbo nl11ned in 1780 tor Charlestown, Co. Louth. Lists ot Perpetual Curates fl'Olll then onwards suniT•• It

Ar m

oppoff1111117.

dda1l IMt tha' pal'fi1811lar atuq must w.111 a tuture

•

el4 • - -

hl1old.na

vu .-.nee

toll.ov1ng the trect10ll

'1le kild1ng ot the

of Ille glebehouse

._ yea

1111,u 11821

emu-a

Nn1'1ng 1n the aen and

IOIINua,e4

Culoul.J enough the ohUl'cm and graveyard ven not

landwuk, and ••'ber ot a .family ot whom I hope to apeak

I "2. 3

us eu m

...

eu m

vaaen ot the •ncn1ation ooapying separate 1ide1 ot In 1823 a gallery was added by the

the chUl"ah being tllrther enlarged in

Jlol.ynnX taaily1

tile etmroh.

18lt3 and again renonted in 1,0$.

!he anhiteot who designed the church was the

~• ooaplete tram 1780 to the

Parish register

ag h

Royal School in 1773.

us eu m

lNllt in 11701 the Public Library in 1171, and the

oelebnte4 ThomasCooley to whose plans the palace was

us eu m

ou nt

ou nt y

1Jlbald.tant1 ot the townlan41 that nov tom Grange parish

Ar m

an pNNne4 in the Register• of Armagh P&l"iab. parish !hi•

us e

nt y

Ar m

■ates

tor reoords and as a realt were torce4

ag h

'° proY14e

11 a _,ter tor oongratalaU.on. as UJl7 parishes negl.ected

tuoqh disestablishment ot tile Irish Church to send

ou nt

no doubt you ue all aware, 1• so

Ar m

••

buld.na ot -e four courts in 1922. GnD&• Puim1

nt y

Ar m

their n1i1t•r• to Da.Wn when they per1.ahe4 in the

aoat ot the

Aaqh -

•t - . - .

a,. Paul ot

Ar m

et St.Peteran4

• 11-4 fJIOII - • naa1'e:r ot tovnl•nd• within 1 ta boUD4arie ■ taaa, 0"'1pneJJ7 tone4 porUou ot the crane•• ot the

ag h

preNllt, an4 .... 1l1ghtl7 earlier NOONS relating lo

us eu m

eu m

In the :reign ot Elizabeth the First, Sir Toby

Caulfeild [Caulfield] - founder ot the tamil7 fortunes of the long

ot Barons, Earls and Viscounts Charlemont - secured the vast lands ot the Abbey ot st. Peter and st. Paul as

l1n8

a reval"d tor his services to the Queen, but by the time

of the erection ot Grange Church the townland we now know

us eu m

ag h

ou nt

deriYed its present appellation .trom John Salterston who

us eu m

ou nt y

At aD71"&te the townl.and appears in the Poll Tax

Ar m

Dillon.

ag h

appears on the Muster Roll ot 1630 as a tenant under John

nt y

ag h

Ar m

•1111l.ar taahion.

us e

Blundel'ss Grange, a name that probably arose in

find

of 166o as Saltenser'ss Grange, a doCWllent wherein we also

It time pel'llits

Ar m

inoorporated in Dillon s grant ot 1610.

nt y

A tev other townlands besides Salters Grange were

ou nt

Ar m

bo1Ul4■•

Ar m

t ~ and on the Copes who also held lands in the J)U'iabt ba.t w aball nov bnetl.T discuss antiquitiea within its

Ordnance Survey mapslhov pNhlatorio earthworks

Blundel's

Grange Lisdonwilly

Aghanroe

ot the '1i,e o011110nl7 4edgnate4 as tod1 in a number ot '°1ml.ud1.

Grennan Tullyard and Knockaconneytor inatanoe,

I ahall haYe some obsenations to make on tb.at 111-tatad

What

its earlier name was is not clear but it undoubtecUy

•• Salter'ss Grange had become Molyneux property.

have

us eu m

noh earthworks and in Tullyardyou have a apeoiaen.

eu m

ot llhioh the centN onl.7 Nllaina, the trench and outer

ramp&n being de1tro7ed oirca 183~•

fhe same town.land

contains the North Meridian Marks, tamiliar ol»Jeots in.

lll&7 be

ot that name appear in .Annal.s under the years 638 and 6'8. Other townlands ot speoial appeal are Carganumuck- site ot chambered grave and of pits dug 'b7 the native troops to trap th• English Horse at tile

ou nt y

ou nt

us eu m

ho saints

Yellow Ford 1n. 1598

oh1et"l7

nt y

Armagh Abbey,

nt y

ag h

Kiloter

Mullynure ot a famous

us e

Moneycree ot the ancient ohvch of

Ar m

know aa Bishop'ss Court, pre suaabl.7

beoauae it was sometimes uaecl by the

Little

Archbishops as• residence.

is knoWll ot i ta h1atoZ7 be70Dd the

h ag m

Ar ©

ou nt

Ar m

tut that it was destroye4 by fire oiraa 1371 and was not rebailt. It has alao been 14eatit1ec1 as the 'bllrial place ot Deirdre vhoae miatortun.1 ton the aub~eot ot one ot the aa44eat ot ov old Irilb. aa1aa.

Ar m

ag h

tradit1onall¥ vith a st. Cretan.

In paasing it

ot intere 1t to ll8Dt1on that Tullyard Fort is linked

Observatorybut now out ot date.

the local landaoape tomerl7 in use by the Armagh

us eu m

-I' With a souterrain consistiDI ot two ohambers linked v1 th other bf a pa1saa• ot 36 teat long besides sites or two forts

••oh

eu m

Drummondmore

file pariah 11, ot course, ot g:reat 1ntere1t to

ou nt

It vas a celebrated Irish notory

is illustrated

and

ag h

by exoellent doamaentation 1n State Papers

ot the

us eu m

were sound.17 beaten and the survivors dispersed.

ag h

tl'OOp ■

In the action the Queen• s

us eu m

reign ot the tirst Elizabeth

ou nt y

period as well as by folk tradition 1n the parish of

Ar m

us eu

Gra!lge vhioh alao has 1 ta links vith the battle fought

nt y

&lll8e

ag h

British

Ar m

ai Benburb 1n 1646 with eqaal.lT disastrous rellUlts to

nt y

%radition writied by taot states that the first

William Dickie

Ar m

bush vaa puJtllshed in 176't b7 ••'ber ot a t-117 ot that name vbo wre

newspaperp rinted

press 1n the o1t7 a1;

Ar m

Aaqb in l?ltO an4 had a printing

ou nt

was made a freemanot

idle printer

1678. William Dickie

Ar m

tenant, of Grange UD4el' M o l y ta■U.7 ne :tl'OII ux at least

a.,

lla.1'1ed 1D Grange c h u r c h Thomas yard

ot Anlalll

tlaat date • vll1ab Nllln4a ■e that at least one Sovereign

ot the ol .,

ANqb

MacanThomas 1a•1a1n Macanin quenlon t1rat ••ned a1 Sovereign

ln 1759 and was acain Sovereign

Yellow Ford was fought within its confines 1n the

h11torians because ot the tact that the Battle ot the

us eu m

11.x U.e1 betwen that date and 1777, trom vhioh year

eu m

he Nl'ftd oontimousq until 179lt-, the year betore his He was a cadet ot the Sept ot the Macan

death.

who

in the 17th century occupied a large tract ot O ONeilland

the date ot their settlement in the county is uncertain but

Lord ot

Macan

Irish Annals record the death 1n llS'S'

us eu m

Arthur Jacob Macan, youngest son ot the

ag h

Sovereignot Armagh, was the tounder ot the Macan Asylum

ou nt y

Fa1'111ng 1n the

ot the

00011pa,1011.t

Ar m

1eu1 between that da,e and the Cromwellian

nt y

Farms l q derellot and deserted dUl'ing the

lalter 1eu.

ag h

vas aoocapllahed was destroyed 1n the Civil War

us e

nt y

ta8h1on oanie into beinc, but all that

and Scotch

Ar m

Bnclllh

ude in the years between 1610 and 161t-1.

Ar m

ot the 17th century. Some progress vaa

ag h

The lands that compnse the p&nah were mo1tl7 vast•

1n the open1ng dqs

us eu m

ou nt

for the Blind, an institution still 1n being.

enoloaect bJ' tenoe1 and fruit tree, plan.'94.

ou nt

Ar m

aent. 7an1 acaln becan to pl'Oduce orop1, fields were

Dlat hapPJ'

Ar m

nate ot attai:rs va.1 1 hovner, qain broken tor a short

Ar ©

U'i••n.

tille in the vu beheen 1 ... , and W,Jl1ua ba.t from 1690 Olllfal'da DO fmotbel' ll'OuJtl• I haft

bllt the restoration ot 1660 In-ought a more stable settle-

plentit'ul..

Cinel Aenghusa, from which date onwards references are

y M

us eu m

eu m

M eu

us us eu m

ou nt

us eu m

us eu

ou nt y

nt y

ag h

nt y

ou nt

Ar m

Muster Roll of Manor or Armagh 1630.

Ar m

ag h

Ar m

ag h

m Muster Roll tor 1630.

-7Castledillon Estate.

us eu m

eu m

us eu m

ou nt

us eu m

Charlemont Estate.

us e

ag h

ou nt y

nt y

ag h

nt y

ou nt

Ar m

Muster Roll ot 1630.

Muster Roll of 1630.-

Cope Estate.

·~

us eu m

•9-

eu m

us e

ou nt

C Ar

h ag ©

nt y

ou C

ag ©

Ar m

Ar m ©

us eu m

ou nt y

ag h

Ar m

ou nt

Ar m

WilliamPringle

Michael Stones. Anthony Dillon. Erasmus Dillon. Richard Stubbs, Anne Carrington. George Mason. Robert Roe. Richard Roe. Nathaniel Dillon. Galtinson John Samuel Bates. Edmond Brooke, Thomas Dawson.

ag h ©

Ar m

ag h

C h

William Pearson. Nicholas Huffe Elizabeth Atkins. Richard Taylor. Henry Newberry. William Hutchinson. Robert Millington. Michael Ob1ns. William Mutly. Henry Chamberlain. Thomas Cross. Henry Grace. Hugh Cross. John Wilson.

castle Dillon Tenants 1631,

us eu m

eu m

Aghanore - the golden ford.

lot shown in Poll Tax ot 1660.

eu m eu us eu m

us eu

M Orr

All presbyterians

Ar m

James Bigar [Bigger] Alex. Lyle John. Sloan Robert Ramsey John Kirk

John. McConwell

Under unanta1

ou nt

Ar m

Chief tenant John Maxwell of Anagh.

Widow Byrne

Widow Read.

Manor ot Armagh1714

Alexander

ag h

Ar m

Alexander McDowell Roger Stitcher James Study

nt y

Ar m

Hearth MoneyRoll ot l66lt1

2 Bn&liah and 8 Irish tuailies.

nt y

ou nt y

ou nt

us eu m

y nt

ou C

ag h

Poll tax 166o1

Ar m ©

nt ou C

ag h m

Allistragh

WilliamWilson.

C h ag

Hearth Money Roll 1664

us eu m

-11Annaclare

- Harlh

Cast le Dillon Esta te.

ot the oler a.

eu m

Poll Tax ot 16601 It Ingl ish taail iea.

m eu us eu m

us eu m

Cope Bsta te.

us eu

nt y

ou nt

ag ©

Ar m

Ar m ©

Annacrampchapel and the Copes

nt y

ag h

Ar m

Bo\ llhovn Hear th Money Roll 1661t-.

Ar m

8 Sngl1 sh and 2 Irish fami lies.

ou nt y

ot the wild 1arU.o.

Poll Tu: ot 16'oa

Ar m

M y

ou nt

Annacramp - ■arlh

us M y

ag h

ag h m

nt ou

h ag

Patr ick O O'Br anni gan

Ke&nh Honey Roll 166\u Donnagh o O'Br annig an.

us eu m

marsh

ot the horses.

CharlemontEstate.

eu m

Annahagh -

m eu

M ou

ou nt

h ag

NathanielS tansby.

Widow Stansby.

Ar m

HearthJlomy Boll ot 1661t-1

Kot abovn Poll fax ~ 16'o.

nt y

Ar m

Aughnacloy- the •tomy ford or ford ot the stone. Charleaont Estate.

M ou C

Ar m

ag h

Philip O Dailly

ou nt y

16641

us eu

ou nt or

James Johnston Bryan O O'Dailly l

Ar m ©

Ar m

ag h

Heanh Honey Roll

us eu m

us M

ag h

us M

nt ou C

Cope Estate.

Bot shown Poll Tax 166o.

Ar ©

1661t-.

Ardrea - the grey hill.

lot shown Poll fax ot 1660 or Hearth MoneyRoll o~

us eu m

Charlemont Estate.

Ballybrannon - O Brannon• s Town.

eu m

Poll Tax ot 16601

Art McKeone

m eu

ou nt y

nt y

ag h

Ar m

Manor of Armagh 17141

Ar m

6 English families.

us eu

ou nt

ag h

Poll Tax of 1660:

Not shown Hearth Money Roll of 1664.

ou nt C

h ag m

nt y

C h

ag Ar

Ar m ©

Ar m

Darby McConnell, Church. John McCrory RC John McCarran, Senior, R.C John McCarran, Junior, R.c. Owen McCarran.

Under tanants

Ar m

Chief tenants Nicholas Averell Merchant of Armagh.

Ballygasson - the Boys town.

us eu m

us M

nt ou

ag h

Owen McLyndalle Pat. McGurrigan.

C h ag

Hearth Money Roll of 16641

6 Irish families.

us eu m

Ballyknick - the hill tow.

Cope Estate~

eu m

Poll !u: ot 16601

m m eu C

us eu M

M y

,.,.P.

Ar m

R.C.

John Andrew Henry Pagan John starr

ou nt

Ar m

a.a. ,.

James McDonnell Robert Holmes John Holmes

Ar m

Nicholas Averell ot Armagh, Merchant

Under tenant.as

nt y

ag h

Manor ot Azlulh 17llt-1

Lappan James

nt y

Ringan Amstrong.

Alexander Armstrong

Ar m

ou nt y

Roll 1661t1

Chiet tenant I

us eu m

ou nt

ag h

Ar m

lit- Bngl1sh.

us eu m

y nt

fovn.

McGilmurry

Poll Tu: ot 166o1 Hearth Non17

Robert Ball

Henry Robinson.

ou C

ag h m

John Bowlin (Boland . (pl'Onoun.oed Bolan

Ballymackilmurry

RobertWallwood

C h ag

Jlearlh Money Roll 1661t-1

12 Bnclillh t8111.l1es.

us eu m

l'?, 7

Carricktroddan - roclq land ot the Troddan.

Rolls ot 1661+-.

eu m

Bot shown Poll fax ot 1660, or Hearth HoDff.

eu us eu m

us eu

ag h

Manor ot A:rmagh 171.lt-1

nt y

Ar m

Edward Harrison.

ou nt y

Owen McGribben o O'Daily [Daly]

Ar m

us eu m

us M

ou nt

ot 1660.

Haanh Honey Roll ot 16641 Cormock

M y

ou nt

Mannahon James

Patrick TumaltyB.a. Owen Calughan R.c. TiegeMcQuade R.c.

nt y

Alex. Prentice

Ar m

Daniel Mcelmurry R•C• Nicholas ReC• John Lappan

P. P. James McMullen . P. Bryan McMahon a.c. Manus Gribben R.C.

Moses Starr

Lappan

P. R.c.

John Dickie

Ar m

Under tenamaa

Mr. Nicholas Averell

Chier tenants

Cabragh

Ar m

now

Killvorey OUghtra alias Bally McElmurry oughtra,

us M y

ag h

lot shown Poll fax

nt C

ag h

- bad land. Cabragh

( a naall townland ot 24a. l r. 36 p.)

R.C.

us eu m

Carganamuck- th• roOT land. ot the sv1ne ol" posaibl.7 the od.m ot the sv1ne - loo~ p:ronounced Carnamuck

eu m

•

ot 1661. or ·.

m eu M

y nt

ou C

ag h

us eu m

ou nt y

ou nt

•ot sbovn Poll Tax ot 1660, Heanh Mone7 Roll 1661t, or llanor ot Armagh 11llt-•

ag h

Carrickaloughran

us eu y

h ag m

Ar ©

h ag

Ar m ©

WilliamDawson Edmund 0 O'Cullen

ou nt

1'61t1

Ar m

2 ._liah an4 It- Irish. a.art1a Jloaq Boll

nt y

Ar m

Drumart ;_ Ant I Long ridge Poll Ta 16601

ag h

nt y

h ag

Ar m

(A ...U tovnland ot 20 a. l r. 23 P•) .·

nt ou C h ag

us eu m

lot shown on .Hearth Mone7 Rolls

Manor ot Armagh1714

us eu m

Drumcarn - the ridge ot the cairn.

eu m

lot shown Poll Tax of 1660.

Hearth HoneT Roll 1661t-1

y nt

us eu m

us eu

M y

ou nt

ag Ar

Brannigan

ou C

O O'Donnelly

Shane O O'Hammegan [Halligan]

Bryan O B

nt y

ou C h

Chulemont Estate.

Phelim

Beanh Money Bou 16'Jt.1

Ar m

Iriah taailies.

R.c. R.c. R.c. R.c.

nt y

Ar m

Drummond Beg - the ridge or long hill. Poll fax ot 1'601 ~

P. Q.

Bryan McBennett

ag h

Ar m ©

m P. R.C.

Neale McShane

ou nt y

Ar m

James Thompson Toal McCann

Pat. McBennett Matthew Braing

James Greer Robt. Douglas

R.c.

Bryan McKee

us eu m

Alex. Marshall

R. Con McWard P. Huch Fforsman Samuel WilliamsonP. Geo. Richardson P. Phel. Brannigan R.c. R.c. Owen McCorney

Ar m ©

ou nt

ag h

John Mccrea WilliamMorton Hugh McGaughy

P. P.

Alex. McCoen McAredey James

John Levison

renants1

John Geery

Under

Nicholas Averell.

Chiet tenant I

Manor ot Armagh 1711+-t

ag h

William Fleming.

William Mitchell. Thomas Cooper.

Edgar

John

George Beery

us eu m

Charlemont Estate.

Drummond More - the long ridge.

eu m

Poll fax of 16601

eu m eu

ou nt

h ag ©

ou C

ag ©

Ar m

Ar m ©

nt y

ag h

Ar m ©

Ar m

Willson William John Carr.

Hearth Money Rolls 166lt-1

us eu m

ou nt y

Ar m

8 Irish Eamilles.

ou nt

ag h

m Ar ©

Poll Tax ot 16601

us eu m

Castle Dillon estate.

Drumogher - the ridge of the plain.

nt y

nt ou C

us eu m

nt ou C

ag h

Leland

Francis

John Johnston John Forsith.

C h ag

7 English and 2 Irish families. Hearth Money Roll 1661.1

us eu m

Drumsill- the ridge Qf the sallows.

eu m

Pol.l Xu: 16601

m eu

us e M

ou nt

ag Ar ©

nt y

ou C h

Torlagh O O'Neill

Ar m

Hearth MoneT Roll 1661+-1

John Oates

us eu m

nt y

ag h

Ar m

or 1660.

ou nt y

C h

P. P.

Joshua Geough

James Davidson James McKnite

us eu m

ou nt

John Maxwell.

Under tenantss

Poll Tu

Donnell McMulyn

John Orr

Chief tenant I

Grange.

Armagh 17llt-1

Ar m

nt ou

ag h

Manor

William McGeough

John Irwin John Dulap

C h

Hearth Money Roll 16641

10 English and 3 Irish families.

us eu m

Grange Blundell or Blundel's Grange.

eu m

Charlemont Estate.

Not shown Poll Tax 1660.

eu m

us eu

nt y

ou nt

C ag

h m Ar

ag ©

Ar m

Ar m ©

Gilbert Martin

Allen Simpson

WilliamSloan Pat. Maxwell. ThomasMcIlvean Andrew Martyn

Ar m

Pat. Coulter

James Graham

ag h

Hearth Money Roll 16641

nt y

Ar m

11 English and 12 Irish families.

ou nt y

us eu m

M y

ou nt

Charlemont Estate.

Poll Tax ot 16601

us eu m

y nt

ou C

ag h

Ar m

Grangemore

William Young.

ou C

ag h m

C h ag

John Sanderson

Hearth Money Roll 166lt - shown as "Blinder Grange" .

us eu m

Greenan - a summer fort .

Cope Estate.

eu m

Poll Tax 16601

12 Irish tanants.

us e

M C

m Ar

ou nt

C h William Wagh John McBride John Ffoard

Ar m

P. James Wagh Hugh Marshall P.

Ar m

John Maxwell.

tenants •

Thomas Sloan

nt y

h ag

Armagh l71ltt

Chief' tenant I Under

nt y

William Richey

William Mitchell Edmond O Donelly

Ar m

Hearth Money Roll 166~1

Manor

ou nt y

Irish tandlies.

ag h

16601

us eu m

M y

ou nt C

Ar m

us eu m

y nt

ou C

ag h

Ar m ©

Killylln - O Lynn' s Wood. Poll Tax

us M

nt ou C

ag h m

Laughlin O

ou C h

Cormack McEtee Conellan

William Rutland Henry McEtee Pat. McEtee

Hearth Money Rolls 1664:

P. P. P.

us eu m

Kilmachugh- McHugh I s Wood.

Charlnont Estate.

eu m

Poll Tax ot 166o.

m eu

M y

us eu m

y ou nt

ag h

us e

nt y

ou C

Edmund MaCarran

R.c.

ou nt

R.C. Hugh Mulhallan [Mulhollan

Ar m

Henry McCoddan a.a. Hugh McCoddan R.c.

Under tenants,

Ar m

John Maxwell.

nt y

ag h

Ar m

Chiet tenants

Armstrong. Alexander Armstrong.

Edward

Manor ot Armagh 171lt1

Hearth Kone7 Roll 16611-1

ou nt y

lfot shown Poll '.rax 1660.

Ar m

us eu m

Knockaconey - hill ot the firewood or rabbits.

ag h

m Ar

L eland. William

C h

John Miller. Thomas Angel.

Hearth Money- Roll 16641

us eu m

eu m

Lisdonwilly - Donnelly's Fort.

eu us eu m

us e

nt y

ot the boundary.

nt y

ag h

David Williamson P.

Andrew Hamilton P.

ou nt y

ag Ar m

Ar m

Moneycree - Bog

P. R.C.

ag h

Under tenantsa Art McCannell Andrew Heyle

us eu m

Nicholas Averell.

ou nt

' Chief tenants

Part of BallymcElorre

James McComb

C h

Ar m

or Manor of Armagh l7llt-.

ou nt

Ar m

Bot shown Poll Tax of 166o, Hearth MoDa7 Roll 1661t,

ag h m

Symon Wright

John McComb

Manor of Armagh 171>+.

Hearth Money Roll 1664-1

C h

It- Bnglish and 10 Irish families.

Poll Tax 1660:

us eu m

Mullynure - the hill of yew.

eu m

Not shown Poll Tax 1660.

Andrew Laughlin

us e

ou nt y

C h

ag h

Castle Dillon Estate.

nt y

ag h

Ar m

h ag

Ar m

John Saltersto n, Dillon Estate, Muster Roll 1630.

C h

ag m

Ar ©

ou nt

h ag

Ar m

Saltarsto n's Grange, Cromwellian Inquisiti on of 16;7.

Ar m

AJ.J. Presbyter 1ans .

us eu m

ou nt

William Murry [Murray]

John Stewart John Clarke

John McCracken

Salter's Grange .

us eu m

WilliamMcCracken

ag h

John Hunter

nt y

Nicholas Averell.

Under tenants,

John Humphrey

ou C h

Manor ot Armaghr

Chief tenantr

Thomas Lord

William Sloan William Mehan

Hearth Money Roll 16641

us eu m

eu m

feerau - the district of the fort.

eu M

us e

nt y

ou h

C h

Fforte

R.C.

John

ou nt

R.C. R.C.

Edmond Brannigan JamesM cBride

Ar m

R.c. R.c.

Daniel O Cullen PhelimRice JamesR ice Knocker McCann

tenant at

John Maxwell.

Ar m

Under

Ar m

Chief ,anant I

not shown

Hearth Honey Rolls 166lt) Manor ot A1"llagh 17llta

nt y

ag h

Ar m

ou nt y

Poll rax 16601

ou nt

ag h

Ar m

us eu m

Thomas Bond

Under Tenant I

us eu m

John Maxwell.

Chief tenant,

f1rcane • rough district.

David Woorke

ag h

Manor ot Armagh 17llt1

[Brian] Bryan McCarran

Toole o Dally [Daly] Owen McCarran

George Whittington Pheilm O Conry [Conroy]

Hearth Money Rolls 16'1.1

20 Irish.

Poll Tax 16601

us eu m

-2'

Tullyard

eu m

Not shown Poll Tax ot 1660, or Hearth Mone7 Roll 1661+.

all Roman Catholics.

us e y

h Art McKernan Pat McKee

Conn O Lennan [Lennon]

Ar m

Patrick Carvallan

Hugh McKernan

Ar m

Art O Sally

Under tenantss

h ag

Arthur Powell.

Chief Tenant:

Ar m

William Murray

Thomas Little.

ou nt

Art McSherry

nt y

ag h

Hearth Money Roll 166~1

Manor of Armaglu

us eu m

ou nt y

- l+ Irillh.

nt y

Ar m

Poll Tax 1660

Tullygarran - Saran's s Hill.

ou nt

R.C.

Ar m

ag h

Nicholas Warring

John Ridley

Laurence Murry [Murray] . .•c. c. .Tames Wilson c. William Elwood c. Robert Elwood R.C. Thomas Connelly

ag h

Thomas Wilson John Lindsey

William Mass

R. C. Manus Gribben R.C. PhelimHaygan [Hagan]

R.c. c. P. c. P. c.

WilliamHobbs Pat . McElmurry John Mass

Under Tenants s

nt ou

Nioholas Averell.

Chief tenant,

Manor ot Armagh 1711+1

us eu m

o Donnigan• s Hill.

Tullygoonigan -

6 :Inglish.

us eu

m Ar ©

C h

ou nt

ag Ar m ©

nt y

ou C h

nt y

ag h Ar m ©

us eu m

Caster Renison Robert Dyke William Renison

ou nt y

h ag ©

Ar m

Ar m ©

us eu m

ou nt

ag h

P. Robert Hayes Patrick McLaughlin R.c. R.c. Tur McGurk P. Henry Robinson

Ar m ©

ag h

Under tenants s

m eu

M y

John Maxwell.

Chier tenants

Laughlin O O'Hugh.

Manor of Armagh 171~•

William Harrison

C h ag

Hearth Money Roll 166lt1

eu m

Poll Tax ot 16601

ou nt

us eu m

eu m

us us eu m

ou nt

us eu m

us e

Ar ag h

ag h

ou nt y

nt y

ag h

ag DISTRICT .

Ar m

AND

KILMORE

us eu m

15 I. DISTRICT,

eu m

Kilmore AND

Tradition asserts that Patrick visited Kilmore on his

way to Armagh in the ~ear 444 A.D., but there is proof that we must,

the saint approached Armagh from the south-west.

therefore, assume that Patrick•; excursion to Kilmore was

of a church at Mahon, near Portadown, where he converted That church,

us eu m

a well of pagan origin to Christian usage.

ag h

of course, has long since disappeared, but the spring,

of later date, possibly contemporary with the foundation

us eu m

ou nt

ag h

ou nt y

pilgrimage to : rece:r;it times, and is still in existence.

Ar m

It. has been said that Kilmore was in being before

us eu

Armagh; that as -an ecclesiastical centre it dates back to

nt y

Ar m

the year 422 ·and was the first church erected in Ireland.

ag h

It is quite true that Christianity had penetrated to

ou nt

establishment subsequent to

must, therefore, suppose

Ar m

dedication to st. Aidan does not carry conviction.

Kilmore•s foundation by St. Mochta in that year and its

nt y

Ar m

Ireland before the days of St. Patri.ck, but the story of

Ar m

Armagh rather than before, a theory borne out by the fact

From that

death of an Abbot of Kilmore occurs in 745.

that the earliest entry in Irish Annals relating to the

time onwards its history can be traced in dateable sequence

to the present day. The little monastic settlement suffered frequently

coDDllonly calle~ Patrick's Well, remained a place of

us eu m

-2:,

count Y Arm agh

eu m

in tribal warfare and was one of the

religious

establishments raided by the Vikings who seem to have reached

the parish in the year 872, considerably later than their

arrival in Armagh city where they ravaged its churches

us eu m

ag h

still familiar land-marks in many parts of Ireland.

The

ou nt

Annals do not, however, indicate such a structure at Kilmore,

us eu m

ag h

even in 1150 when we have a detailed description of the

This I

ou nt y

Ar m

burning of Cill-Mor Ua Niallain with its oratory.

us eu

mention particularly because locally it is believed that

nt y

the tower of the present church is built around an ancient

nt y

ou C

historical fact.

ag h

Ar m

Round Tower, a supposition unsupported by observation or

Ar m

It is

vicars and rectors are available. from 1367 . to date.

ou nt

Lists of its abbots begin in 745 and records of

origin.

Ar m

The parish is undoubtedly ancient and was monastic in

indeed one of the best documented parishes in the county,

Ar m

but .time does not permit me to deal with its story in detail.

It was early linked with Armagh, the rectorship being vested in the Dean and vicarship in the Chancellor, two dignitaries

In 1627 the parish was attached to

ot Armagh cathedral

the Chancellorship and rectors of Kilmore were Chancellors

To the period of the Vikings belclng the round towers,

·century.

abbeys, and schools, many times in that and the succeeding

153.

us eu m

-,3,-

of Armagh by virtue of their offi·ce unt·11 l 871, but

eu m

following the Disestablishment that practice was· The story of the parish from the coming

discontinued .

of the Anglo-Normans in the late 12th century down to the

Reformation and from then until the Plantation of Ulster Like

us eu m

ag h

Well, probably dedicated to St. Aidan, but according to

ou nt

gort na e with a St. K r y n

us eu m

the Ordnance Survey Placename books of 1835 then linked

The present church is believed to occupy the old site .

ag h

ou nt y

It does not

1609, and in 1622 a new church was built.

us eu

Ar m

At anyrate a church is shown on the Plantation Maps of

Ar m

nt y

seem to have suffered to any great extent in the Civil

ag h

War of 1641-42 and did not require rebuilding until 1814,

nt y

Ar m

at which time the old church was all taken down with the

added that greatly enhanced the charm of the church.

Ar m

was visible for miles and a most pleasing feature in the A new chancel was built in 1876 and further

improvements have been carried out since.

landscape.

In passing I should perhaps mention that though the

church escaped destruction in 1641-1+2, the rector and a

ou nt

In 1825 a handsome octagonal copper spire was

Ar m

belfry.

feet thick, enclosing a spiral staircase leading to the

exception of the tower, a massive erection with walls nine

other early ecclesiastical establishments it had its Holy

cannot be studied in the time at our disposal .

us eu m

IS J+-.

number of his parishioners lost their lives in that tragic

eu m

Shortly afterwards Cromwe111· an soldiers ld"

period.

· arrived

in the parish and on an eminence on the road from Stonebridge

to Ballintaggart that famous - or infamous_ Commander is Cromwell was

still commemorated by "Oliver's Hill".

and

us eu m

incomes ~f t~e parishes in County Armagh, a body whose

ag h

findings are of interest from the parish point of view.

ou nt

It was then decided that the church should be removed from

us eu m

ag h

its site at Kilmore to Leggacorry (now Richhill) as it was

ou nt y

At the same time it was suggested that

parishioners .

Ar m

felt that such a change would be more convenient for the

us eu

nt y

Leggacorry was a fit place for a school and that a certain

nt y

Three years later the Restoration came into

of Kilmore .

ag h

Ar m

Robert Smyth be schoolmaster in that town for the parish

Ar m

being and Cromwell ' s plans forth~ uniting and dividing

ou nt

for roughly 1500 years .

Ar m

stands proudly on the hill-top site that it has occupied

of county parishes came to nought and so Kilmore still

Ar m

The oldest monument in the church preserves the

memory of the Very Rev . George Mackeson, a former Dean of

Armagh, who died in 1635 - a link with the days when the

~ointly.

rectorship of Kilmore and the Deanery of Armagh were held The most interesting , however, from the historical

1657 he authorized a Commission to study the working

appointed Commander General in Ireland in 1649, and in

poiht of view is that erected to the Rev . George Walker, D. D.,

I 55:"

us eu m

_,_

a former rector who died in 1677, f a ther of the celebrated No monument marks the burial-place

eu m

Walker of Derry fame .

of Dorothy Monroe, wife of William Richardson of Richhill

Her carriage drawn by six magnificent grey

Irelando

famous in her day as one of the most beautiful women in

us eu m

She died in 1793 and reposes in the Richardson vault.

us eu m

One of the more interesting stones indicates

ou nt

than 1707.

ag h

The churchyard contains no memorials of earlier date

ag h

the resting place of certain members of the Hampton family

ou nt y

who descend from a brother of Christopher Hampton,

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Archbishop of Armagh and Primate of All Ireland (1613-1624)

nt y

Ar m

with whom the title of Primate· became a Christian name.

Kilmore as a parish was at one time of great extent

ag h

\(b~<i,

nt y

comprising the present parishes of Mullavilly (formed in

ou nt

Ar m

In the days of the birth of Quakerism the parish was a A Meeting House was built at stronghold of those ideals .

Ar m

1755), Ricbhill (1837) , Dobbin (1860) , and Diamond (1867) .

Ballyhagan in 1654 and a cemetery later acquired in the

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They

townland of Money where burials still take place .

were, and still are , a fine body of people but were formerly and very troublesome to the rectors of Kilmore over tythes tithes

a reference to the tower with which it

•the steeple house

Their term for the c'hurch was

scriptural interpretations .

was equally attentive to services in Armagh cathedral.

horses with outriders was a familiar sight here though she

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-~ was adorned .

Such ~mbellisbments were displeasing to Quaker

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principles then more intolerant than now.

The parish lies chiefly 1·n o•N ei. 1land Barony, a name designating a territory deriving from the ua Niallains a

sept or tribe of pre-Christian days .

It also contained

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The greater part of the parish excepting for some

Lists of the tenants on

ag h

in the Cope and Bouchier Manors .

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Other townlands were included

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Sacheverall family in 1610.

ag h

townlands belonging to the See of Armagh passed to the

ou nt y

Ar m

those lands who were capable of bearing arms in 1630 have

us eu

been preserved as also depositions made by settlers in the

Ar m

nt y

parish in the Civil War of 1641-42, as well as a Hearth

ag h

Money Roll for 1664 giving the names of all _the Kilmore

nt y

householder~ paying tax in that year .

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I should perhaps mention that Francis Sacheverall, the

ou nt

inherited the major portion of the estate, from

elder ·son

Ar m

becoming the own.er of Ballintaggart , whilst Francis, the

grantee of 1610, left two sons Francis and Henry, the latter

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whom it passed to his daughter , Anne Sacheverall, who married

Edward Richardson in 16~, hence the Richardsons of Richhill .

The present Richhill Castle was built by Anne Sacheverall

and her husband , Edward Richardson, about the year

166,.

He was then a Member of Parliament for the County Armagh and

parish .

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certain townlands in Orior, now included in Mullavilly

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157. -7-

served as High Sheriff of the county in 1655, 1656, and

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The Richardson family is now represented by a junior

1665.

ago .

branch that settled in County Fermanagh over two centuries

I would like to examine also the history of Presbyterianism

a survey of the plight of the native Roman Catholic families

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following the Reformation, and of events here from

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Elizabeth~ to James II and William III, but that would

ianism, and Methodism in the parish, to spend some time on

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ou nt

ag h

for a future meeting .

The most

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may call the ancient monuments of the parish.

ou nt y

Ar m

I shall now deal as briefly as possible with what we

nt y

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important in point of date is a pre-historic burial-place

ag h

in the to,mland of Ballintaggart , a relic carrying the story

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Locally it is known as the Giant's Grave

about 1500 B. c .

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of human occupation and settlement in Kilmore parish back to

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It is now stripped of its covering slabs and the mass of

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and consists of four chambers entered from a forecourt .

small stones in which it was once embedded has been removed

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for building purposes, possibly in the 17th century .

I have already mentioned that Ballintaggart was the

seat of Henry Sacheverall, the younger son of Francis

Sacheverall, the original grantee of the Manors of Mullalelish and Leggacorry.

In 1711 it was leased by the

keep me talking all night so we must leave those subjects

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then Henry Sachever all to the Boltons - but it had previous ly been held by the Sheltons and later by the Blacks, Locally there is a tradition that

Todds, Bredons, etc.

At anyrate a story is still

Upon arrival at the

being invited to preach in Kilmore .

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church he robed in the vestry and waited for the bell to The indicate when he should proceed to the Chancel.

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To the impatient Dean's enquiries that

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bell-ring er.

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signal was not given in what the Dean considere d to be the due time so he betook himself to the tower and accosted the

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The Dean in a rage retorted -

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reached the top of Annahill

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worthy' s reply was - "the Richardso n carriage has not yet

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History is

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The house was then considera bly larger, and the

occasion.

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silent as to who preached that Sunday but we can be sure the Richardso n carriage went home by Ballintag gart on that

planting and lay-out of the grounds around the present mansion show signs of earlier influence that may well date

and Mary, or the opening years of

to the reign of William

.After the Bolton occupatio n the place ~e townland vaa tor a time known as "Bolton's Folly". the 18th centurr •

And off he went to Ballintag gart.

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himsel£ 0

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"If the bell of Kilmore is to hang on the wheels of the Let him do it Richardso n carriage I shan't preach here.

told about Swift whilst a guest at Ballintag gart House

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the Boltons were his kinsfolk.

It may well be so as

the famous Dean Swift stayed there .

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also contains one of the older Presbyterian congregations of

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the county, established about 1697, whose first minister,

the Rev . Alexander Bruce, was a descendant of King David

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Bruce of Scotland .

In pursuit of antiquities we had better perhaps take

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Partly destroyed fort .

The

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ou nt

An earthen-ringed fort .

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ou nt

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Roman Catholic Chapel built in the early 19 th century at some date before

Drumnahuncheon

Old name Ballyrath, _and P~?bably so-called ahug from adjoining for~ in A n nCastle built by Anthony Cope about 1611Ancestor of Loughgall . Deserted 0 f the Cope's following the Civil War of 1641-42, at which time it was badly damaged.

Castle Raw,

Also known as Kedymore . Der~ves ?hange of name from fights.in Cromwellian times .

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Ballylenny. Fort site . Bottl e Hill . Old name Redimore als Battle Hill .

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Annaghugh .

Ball yknock.

Lower and Upper . Formerly belonging to the d th w·nter Abbey of Newry. e i Site of the Battle of Diamond an • family the Needhams , th e Cop es • The Bagenalls,

Grange

Stonebridge Rocque's Map of 1760 and Ordnance Survey 1835.

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Presbyterian Meeting House circa 1790. Mill Town.

ag h

Ahorey .

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sequence .

townlands with which we are concerned in alphabetical

the parish in its older and larger content, and study the

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Lissheffield.

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Partly destroyed fort. Ancient apple-tree on Mr . Johnston's farm.

Liskeborough, Lisavague Mulladry,

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Fort.

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Fort. Roman Catholic Chapel erected in 1717. Rebuilt 1824.

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Church then appears in Mony McMoriety.

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Kilmore as a townland is not shown on Maps o:f 1609.

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Fort called Faughart in which certain Defenders killed at the Battle of the Diamond were buried.

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Fort.

ou nt

Two fine forts.

ag h

Tullymore

nt ou

Rockmacreany, Shewis. Tampaghmore, Tamnaghvalton

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Presbyterian Meeting House (1780) Quaker (1793), and Independent (1799).

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Fort site. Site of Castle erected by Francis Sacheverall before 1619 . Capture in Civil War of 1641-42 and destructions some years later.

nt ou

Richhill,

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Fort Site.

Fine Fort .

lb/

27 26

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Aughioryer

35' l

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ou C h

Ballintag art

C II

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Ar m

ag h

Ar m 21

nt y

ou nt y 3

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ou nt II

Bottlehill

Ar m

Dromart

14 6

Clandronte

Shessough & Molintir

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Mullylitra

Towlagurdin

Luskoburrow

1.5

Corcrivye

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Shuish

Rockmacleny

Leggacurry

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M ll

Ballylockin

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ou C h ag

Canan

Lower Qr. of Mullidroy

Dromard

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27 26

Ballybreagh

Crewcatt

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Mullalelish

Derryhill

9 people;

Mullawdroy

7 English, 8 Irish.

15 people;

Ballynehinch

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Kil.more Parish in 1652-60.

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Monney

Glustiologan

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Irish.

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3 4

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II II

Carraghshannagh 25 Lurgancott

Tullymoore

Annaboe

Ballytrue

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Ballyhagan

Dunginan

Killmakenty

Raonelan

Annaheugh

Cuicon

Grynan

3 English,

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3 people;

Killmoore

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Kilmore Pari§A in 1659-60.

lb 3

Michael Ruskoe John Carter Bryan Clearke William Fleminge Ambros Beanes JaJ#es Davison William Soulden

one one one one one one one

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one one

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Lawrence Allison William Walker John Hallem William Edwards

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one one one one one one

Andrew Betty

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Allexander Armstrong

one one one one

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George Chicheverell Pattr o Mullan Widdow Bledder John Carr

0 0

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ou nt

one one one one one one

John Johnston John Johnston (:ynr. ) Thomas Hewitt Thomas Robbinson Arthur Harrison Joan ny Keever

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one one one one one

one one one one

William Calvert Edward Attkinson John Woods Christopher Calvert

Widdow Rowntry Thomas Rowntry Edmond o Quyne John Willsonn Shane o Cleryan

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Bottlehill

Connor o Cleryan Edmond o Carney

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Clondrute

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2 2 2

nt ou C h

Mullaghdreene

Drmnnehunsynyl

Dromard

one one one

Ballylannye

s. d.

Francis West William Adams William Richardson

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BallymcHynd

Parish or KiHmore.

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Hearth Money Roll 1664.

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1(,4. -;?

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0 0 0 0 0

one one one one

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Alexander Biger Hugh Glascord Bryan Braddye John Browne Cristopher Tumblett Adam Ballentine Andrew Wallice John Moore Thomas Gibbson Mungo Redford Robert Gilpatrick James Taggart James Gillaspy Widdowe Spence Florence Gray John Gelly Thomas Spence Widdowe Gamell William Steere Archibald mcGill

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ou C

Edmond Savage Robert Lowder William Nowlan Allexander Stewart Toole o Neill Pattr o Hinery

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Legacory Towne

Mullinlelush

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M y

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Henry Lake Phellam o O'Quyne Hugh Harrison Pattr Mccann

Ballynloghan

one one one one one

2 2 2 2 2

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Bryan mcGrannah Pattr mcCawell William o O'Mullan Torlagh o O'Mullan Toole mcGrannah

Ballybragh

s. d.

one one one one one

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Bryan o Raverty Pattr o Raverty Pattr mcGuill Hugh o Toole Pattr o Kynan

Deryheall

of KilJ;nore.

Parish

Hearth·Money Roll 1664

0 0 0 0 0

tbS.

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Hearth Money Ro11 166~

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one one one

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0 0 0 0

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H.M . Roll 1665 Anaghboe .

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one one one

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one one one

Major James Durham Pattr mcClosky James Read

2 2 2 2 2

one one one one

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Terence o Donnelly Henry Greene James Johnston

+ H.M. Roll 1665 Shuish.

one one one one one

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Widdow Apleby William Durham Rory mcGugin Gilberto Hanlon

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ou nt

Anthony Ballard Robert Crapton John Restrige Walter fforsayth Robert Moorehead

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Cristopher Armstrong Thomas Burre 11 Robert Gardner

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r Magherlocoodbeg

ffrancis Battson Richard Boyle John Pearson James Carr John Craige John Lambert

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one one one

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Luskoburrogh

Teemore

Thomas Willson Walter Shennett Vencett Higins

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Cortreeny

s . d. 0 2 0 2 0

nt ou

Mollelitra

twoe one one

M +

( .•.•. sh)

George Walker Amos Dickson Shane o Rawe

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-~ Hearth Money Roll 1664.

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0 0 0 0 0 0 0

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one one one one one one one

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Ralph Jordan Robert mcCladden Donnell o Quyne Henry o ffaryran Neece o ffaryran Hellen Clarke Donnell o Kelly

Aghycoride

Ford of the Cow.

Annahugh

Town of the Wolves .

eu ou nt

Clanroot

Lawn or meadow (Ruata)

Corcreevy

Round hill of the bush or tree .

Cordrain

Hill of the strong men.

Cornascreeb

Round hill of the race-track or furrow .

Creenagh

Withered land .

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Stoney ford .

Cloghan

ou C

round hill.

nt y

Town of the rath .

Ar m

Castleraw als Ballyrath

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Speckled land .

Brackagh

ag h

Town of the summit .

Bottlehill .

Ar m

Ballywilly

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Town of the stream .

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ou nt y

Town of the island .

Ballytrue

Cavan

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Town of the lazyman.

Town of the little lake.

Ballynahinch

ou nt

ag h

m Ar

Ballyloughan

Town of the hill .

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nt ou

0 1 Hagan 1 s town.

Ballyknock Ballylisk

ag h

Ballyhagan

Ballybreagh

Town of the Priest .

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y nt

Ballintaggart

h ag

Grey Marsh.

Hugh ' s marsh or meadow.

Annareagh

Annahoe .

Boundary Ford .

Ahory

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Kilm Place Names r e Parish~ --- - o • t Books Deriva o,s, Place Name ions, -- -----

I I~ Crewcat

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Branch y place of the cats.

Derryh ale

Derry or oakwood?

Derrylo ughan

eu m

Wide or broad oakwood .

Drumard (Jones )

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Tamnaghvelton

May

field .

us eu

M ou

ou nt

ag h

Great field .

Tannaghmore

Meaning uncerta in.

Shewis

McCreeny's rock .

Rockma creeny

Hollow of the cauldro n

Ar m

Richh ill or Legaco rry.

Mulla villy

Hill of the letter . Hill of the ancien t tree .

Ar m

Mullal etragh

Hill-to p of the fort .

Mullal elish

Meaning uncerta in

Ar m

Mullah ead

Summit of the Druid

nt y

Ar m

Mullad ry

A shrubbe ry

ou nt y

Plain of Nuhhat .

Maynooth

Hill of the cats .

Lurgan cot

Ar m

Fort of the whey.

nt y

ou nt

ag h

Meaning uncerta in.

Lisnav ague

Money

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Meaning uncerta in.

ag h

Lisshe ffield

Head or hill of the mound.

Kincon

The great or big chUPch.

Kilmor e

Liskyb orough

McCanty 1 s wood .

C h ag

Ridge of the ash.

Drumna hunchin Kilmac anty

High ridge .

Dromard (Prima te)

High ridge .

ou nt M

nt y

us eu m

eu m

us us eu m

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us eu

nt y

ou nt y

ou nt

Great hill.

h Tullymore

Ar m

ag h

Hill of the garden?

Ar m

ag h

Ar m

ag h

m Unshinagh

Ar Tullygarden

Land abounding in ash.

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~eport of the schools in the Parish of Kilmore

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Diocese and County of Armagh . (1)

School at the village of Kilmore -

122 86

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Enoluments - Profits of tuition and £7 per annum given by the incumbent to the master and his wife for instructing 18 girls in reading, sewing amd mantua making in addition to the number of scholars reported above. Also £2 per annum from the incumbent for teaching gratis on Sundays .

The school house built in the year 1823 .

Number of pupils on Sundays do. during the remainder of week

ou nt y

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ou nt

us eu

nt y

336 76

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Number of pupils on Sundays do . during the remainder of week

School at Bottle Hill established in the year 1823 .

Ar m

(~)

nt y

Ar m

M y

ou nt

153 167 183 200 210

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Number of pupils in the year 1820 1821 do . in 1822 do. in 1823 do . in 1823 Sunday School in

Rich Hill school established in the year 1820 .

(3)

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&noluments - The profits of tuition and £2 per annum given by the incumbent for teaching on Sundays gratis .

apartments

The above is both a male and female school held in separate • nts - £30 to the master and £30 to the mistress from' '· t Jte of the late Erasmus Smith Esqre . and an acre of r b . nu granted by the late Mr . Richardson of Rich Hill --~ r annum for teaching on Sundays gratis .

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No class lists or other documents preserved previously to the year 1823 .

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School at Tullamore •

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107 . umber of pupils on Sundays 58 do . during the remainder of the week

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Emoluments - profits of tuition and £2 per annum for teaching on Sundays gratis paid by the incumbent .

ou nt

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m Ar

254

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nt ou

236 247

Sunday Scholars in 1823 - 339

ou nt y

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This school consists of two separate apartments for males and females .

?here are no records or class lists of this school Previous to the year 1823 .

ou nt

Ar m

JSl!oluments - Profits of tuition and £2 per annum from the · incumbent for teaching on Sundays gratis .

nt y

Ar m

Number of pupils on Sundays in the year 1823 do . during the week

us eu

nt y

Brackay School .

ag h

Ar m

&noluments - To the master £30 and to the mistress £20 per an: from the estate of the late Erasmus Smith, Esqre . besides an acre of arable land to the master with the exception of a small garden belonging to the mistress . Also £2 per an : from the incumbent for teaching on Sundays gratis .

eu us

148

180

1822 1823

149

In the year 1818 1819 1820 1821

ag h

Number of pupils during the week

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School at Mullavilly established in the year 1818 .

(5)

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School - established in the year 1823 . Ballyloghin

iJ. on Sundays e week (with the probability of a large increase)

- 136

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41+

eu us

eu 30

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- 39

nt y

ag h

Ar m

~oluments - The profits of tuition and £2 per annum from the incumbent for teaching on Sundays gratis .

us eu

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Number of pupils on Sundays do. during the week

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Derryhale School .

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ou nt

ag h

m ( 9)

Emoluments - The profits of tuition and £2 per~annum from the incumbent for teaching on Sundays gratis .

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established in the year 1823 .

bc1ool u Vinecash

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- Profits of tuition and £2 pe r annum from the or teaching on Sundays gratis .

- 60 'Jn Sundays - 40 the week , tuition and £2 per annum given by the , on Sundays gratis .

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- 100

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ber of pupils on Sundays o. urinu the week

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(101 Lisavague School - established in the year 1823 .

umber of pupils on Sundays do. during the week

ag h

Dobbin Bridge School established in the year 1823 .

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~ 0 :ume ts £8 per annum granted by Miss Richardson of Richhill and £2 per an : from the incumbent for teaching on sundays gratis.

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Mullahead school established in the year 1823 .

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162 13

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ber of pupils on Sundays do . during the remainder of the week -

&noluments - Profits of tuition and £2 per annum from the incumbent for teaching on Sundays gratis .

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ou nt

EdwardCHICHESTER

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1n6 920

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Tottl Number of SUnday Scholars in the parish of Kilmore do . of daily scholars

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Rector of the parish of Kilmore .

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April 3rd, 1824.

The rates of tuition in the parish of Kilmore are for reading ten shillings per annum - for writing and arithmetic one pound per annum .

N. B.

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PARISH HISTORY .

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KILLYLEA -

It derives , however, from three

date of foundation .

Killylea is, of course, a modern parish as regards

ecclesiastical centres of respectable antiquity - Armagh

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linked with a St . Mochua who died i~ the year 564.

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ag h

In September of that year a meeting was

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The story of the establishment of Killylea as a parish

begins in 1829 .

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determine the lay-out of the new parish .

Lord

Caledon was

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held under the Chairmanship of the then Earl of Caledon to

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the 2nd Earl and when the Cape of Good Hope was ceded to

ag h

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Great Britain, he became its first Governor, holding that

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He died in 1839 and a

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of Caledon in South Africa is named .

office from 1806 until 1811 , and in whose honour the town

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Lord Caledon,with certain other gentlemen in the

lofty monument in Caledon Hill Demesne perpetuates his memory~

neighbourhood, was convinced that a church should be erected

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in or near the village of Killylea, and it was thought that

as there were more than fifty families of the Established

Church 1n the townland of Killylea alone, and many others

in the surrounding districts who had to travel long distances

to their respective churches, that the Primate (Archbishop

and Tynan and Derrynoose both ancient parishes, the latter

founded in the mid-fifth century by St . Patrick himself,

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Lord John George Beresford) should be requested to consider The Archbishop gave the

the formation of a new parish .

A subscriptio n list was opened towards

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project his blessing .

the Building Fund and contributio ns of £100 each were received

from Lord Caledon, the Maxwell family, the Close family, and

Trinity College, Dublin , besides sums of £50 each from the

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The Board of First Fruits gave £900

Rector of Derrynoose .

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Later a further sum of ~63 was also raised .

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This was read in Tynan Church on Sunday morning,

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Meeting .

The Primate then issued an order for holding a Vestry

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and a number of smaller donations brought the total up to

£1 , 540 .

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Tynan Church, Killylea Courthouse and Lislooney Meeting

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the 14th February , 1830 , and copies affixed on the doors of

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House on the same day, stating that a Vestry Meeting would

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parishes of Tynan , Derrynoose and Armagh .

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decided to take the following ' townlands from the three

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Tynan - Killylea, Naul , Drum , Fellows Hall, Darton, Manooney, Annaghanney , Annagh, Annagharap, Turry, Foyar, Polnagh and Knockenagh. ·~

Derrynoose - Lisagally, Cormeen , Tullycallida y Drumgar . 4

and

- Lisdrummard , Knockgaphy, Tyrearly and Ballycoffey .

Eglish

- Aughrafin and Tamlet .

Lisnadill

The Vestry duly met and were advised that it had been

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be held in the Killylea Courthouse on the 25th February.

the Rev . J . E. Jackson, Rector of Tynan, and the Rev. J. Jones,

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Lord Primate , Lord Lifford, then Dean and Rector of Armagh,

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17&. Lisnadill and Eglish were then Perpetual Curacies of Armagh,

and Armagh Parish thus became responsible with Tynan and

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Derrynoose for nominations in turn to the newly formed

perpetual Curacy of Killylea, at the same time contributing

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£22, £30 and £23 annually.

Two years later the church was completed, and on 14th

April , 1832, it was dedicated and consecrated by Dr . James

George Beresford .

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gifted by Trinity College on the 5th June, 1830 .

Saurin, Bishop of Dromore, acting for Archbishop Lord John

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of Dromore was united with Down and Connor.

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access to them but I know they are available from 1829 .

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through the Parish Vestry Books.

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Killylea's subsequent history can readily be traced

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from its inception to the present.

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for alterations , renovations, and general parochial matters

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improved by a memorial chancel erected in 1874 by the late

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Mr . H.B . Armstrong, B. L., and that during the incumbency of

hiaselr gave a subscription of £500 .

towards m.ich Mr . Ellis The then pastor was a

ot considerable wealth with an estate in Co . Limerick

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House was built • • ,_.

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the Rev. Thomas Ellis, Perpetual Curate 1858-1888, a Glebe

bequeathed to him by his father on condition that he should

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reside thereon six months in each year.

information upon how that affected the parish - presumably

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he employed a curate.

The "Beresford Correspondence" in Armagh Public

Library contains some Killylea miscellanea, chiefly for

the period from 1856 (the year in which Mr. W.J . Armstrong

presented a clock for the tower) down to 1880.

From them we that

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its site had been granted free by the proprietors - and

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later repaired at an expense of £70, of which £30 had been

know that a school was built in the village in 1818,

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incumbent.

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annual income of £15 from the A.P.C.K., £12 from the

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140.

proprietors and £7 from fees, the pupils on the roll numbering

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of 323 families, making a total of 1,048 parishioners.

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A letter from the Rev. William McClean, Rector of Tynan,

At that date there was no

Perpetual Curate since 1834.

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of the Primate on the Rev. J.C. Mccausland who had been

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trees in the churchyard, a matter that brought down the wrath

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Glebe House, consequently Mr. Mccausland was compelled to live

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live Vi.thin his benefice and allow no more trees to be cut. ,_, 1ear1 later Mr. Mccausland resigned and the Rev. Thomas

I have already apoken of as the builder of the

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dated 15th March, 1856, survives objecting to the cutting of

We also learn that the school was receiving an

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J7S1 According to a letter of October

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Glebe House , took over .

1858 he was to live in Caledon for 18 months until a Glebe

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House could be contrived - from which we may assume that the

house in use recently as a rectory was built in 1859.

the same month Mr . W. J. Armstrong, then living at Mount Irwin,

mentions the proposed Glebe House, and the Primate in reply

queries whether Mr . Armstrong would give land and build a

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wife's sister in 1857.

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the removing of the Parish Clerk for marrying his deceased

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presented a memorial to the Archbishop asking that the master

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Mr. McClean of Tynan

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should be allowed to open the school.

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and mistress appointed to Killylea by the Perpetual Curate

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seems to have been protesting but for what reason we are not

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the parish, dated August 16th, 1860, suggests that the old

school was still in existence and states that Mr . Armstrong

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Plans were

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to have a new school with a re sidence attached.

objected to the National Board and wished

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Board of Education. if a new school could not be built .

was willing to repair it and place it under the National

sent to the Primate and Mr . Ellis estimated the cost at £4-00 , stating that Mr . Armstrong had agreed to give a subscription

ot £1.00 towards the building and advising that the old school lbouJ.d be given to him in exchange if he would advance another

at 30/- per acre - another item in a like letter refers to

rectory, whereupon Mr . Armstrong offered 5 acres in perpetuity

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£,O toward s the new one .

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renova tions to the Glebe House and £4o on the church, did not feel that he could contrib ute to the school . In passing

I would like to say that I feel that the present Killyle a school is most pleasin g and the wonderful views across to

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We shall now return to the church.

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1867 it was necess ary to raise a conside rable sum of money for renova tions, buildin g of the Glebe House, etc . An

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£88 and Sir James Strong £72 . lied by a harmonium, earlier SUpp Music at that time was the 1862-67 improvements it had been a barrel organ, but ;,, ' r1sed a new organ specia lly chosen for the church by rd

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The chief subscr ibers to above works were Archbishop ·n l862, and had some short time Lord John Beresf ord who died 1 6 previo usly subscr ibed £350 , Mr . W. J . Armstrong £ 9°, 291 Eccles iastica l Commi ssioner s £350 , Lieut. Col . Cross £ , Blacker £16o , Mr • St •John Col . Close £202 , Trinit y College

£666 .

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restora tion £1,100 and the erectio n of two school houses with residen ces for master s and repair of a third school

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amount of £3 , 216 was require d and raised, and from the accoun ts we discov er that the Glebe House cost £1,450, Church

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school s in the county .

the Armagh and Tyrone hills make it one of the most attract ive

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became necessary to provide an income for the incumbent.

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W.J. Armstrong made a gift of £1 , 000 towards that particular

object, his son Mr.H.a. Armstrong £200, Mr . st . John Blacker

Douglas £400 and Col . Cross £200 .

More improvements were carried out in 1890; in 1896

repairs were made to the tower and walls, and in 1916 new

heating apparatus replaced the system installed through the

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Time does not permit.

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place-names of the parish .

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go into the early history of the district or deal with the

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however, like to remind you that in the reign of Elizabeth

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but that following the Plantation of

and the church 0 O'Neills

the First the chief landowners in this territory were the

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ON~ t~c-~f<>'f-e.1.~a Ulster thep, ~ ~ :iw. Ecclesiastical property, with

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In Tynan and Derrynoose parishes and

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about 17,35lt acres - with a further 4, 475 acres in another

What is now the parish of Killylea, Trinity College was granted

Part of the county _ besides which Fermanagh supplied 10, 583

that Elizabeth the First•s plan for universities If the scheme

and ' Limerick should have miscarried.

1 been put into operation Armagh would, no doubt, in the

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upkeep that is now I fear forgotten.

Pity, however at Armagh

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acres and Donegal no less than 63 , 252 - a contribution to Trinity's

the See of Armagh .

the exception of Abbey lands, remained in the possession of

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generosity of 1-fr. H. B. Armstrong in 1874 .

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pl&Y about with and would have again become a university town . Trinity'ss Royal grants under James I were farmed out by

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the College and thus their very considerable lands in the old parishes of Derrynoose and Tynan came into the hands of the Maxwells, an old Scottish family of whom the Rev . Robert Maxwell was Dean of Armagh from 1610 until his death in 1622 . Dean Maxwell left three sons, the Rev . Robert Maxwell of

whom presently; Henry, ancestor of the Maxwells of Finnebrouge,

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Park, who left two daughters, of whom the youngest Margaret Maxwell married, firstly , Sir Robert Maxwell by whom she had no issue, and secondly , Capt . Butler of the famous Ormonde family Elm

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by whom she had a daughter , Catherine, who married the Rev .

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Samuel Close, Rector of Donaghenry in the year 1721, by whom she

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bequeathed Elm Park.

had a son Maxwell Close to whom his grandmother, Lady Maxwell,

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Hall, - hence the Blacker-Dougla ss •s of

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Elm Park _ the date stone inscribed

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The Dean ' s eldest son Robert was, however, the builder

remains incorporated in the present house with a further

•tone recording that the house erected in 1626 was rebuilt

Robert Maxwell entered the church and was Rector

in 1803 .

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until after the marriage of Grace Close (sister of Sir Barry Close , Bart . ) in 1767 to the Rev . St . John Blacker, Rector of

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Co . Down; and James Maxwell of Mullaghtinny, now better known as

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of Tynan from 16 2 5 until 1661.

He was elevated to the

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Bishopric of Kilmore in 1643 and to Elphin and Ardagh in With those dignities he managed to hold on to Tynan

1661.

He died in 1672 leaving issue_

from 1634 until 1666 .

until 1661 and to the rectories of Derrynoose and Clonoe

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4. William Maxwell of Falkland, Co . Monaghan, High

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3. The Rev . Henry of College Hall, Rector of Tynan 1668-1709 who like his father suffered much hardship ln the Civil War of 1641. He died at College Hall in 1709 and was the ancestor of the Earls and Barons Farnham. He was succeeded in the rectorship of Tynan in 1709 by his eldest son, the Rev . James Maxwell, who was born at College Hall circa 1666 and died 1737. His successor at Tynan was the Rev . John Stronge, Rector from 1737 until 1738 ( who married Eleanor Manson of Fairview now Tynan Abbey) whose second son Matthew Stronge Mayor of Liverpool was the father of the Rev. Sir James Stronge created a baronet in 18031 who married Helen Tew, daughter of John Tew, Mayor Dublin, by his wife Margaret, daughter of Robert Maxwell of Fellows Hall and niece of the 1st Lord Farnham. College Hall seems to have been in a decayed state about 1848 and was taken down some years later during the construction of the railway line from Armagh to Monaghan.

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The Bishop left five daughters also but our interest

lies in his second son James of Fellows Hall .

and inscribed stone preserved there states that the house

Vas built by James Maxwell and Elizabeth his wife in 1664. ~ ••cond stone states "the house that was built on this

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Sheriff of that county in 1091, who married Anne daughter of the Rev . George Walker, D. D. , Chancellor of Armagh and sister of the celebrated Rev. George Walker of Derry fame .

2 . James of Fellows Hall whi eh he built in 1664.

1. John of Farnham, Co . Cavan, which he built in 1713.

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cround by James Maxwell in the year 1661+, being burned in

1752 was rebuilt by Robert Maxwell and Grace his wife in

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1762 under the inspection of their son John".

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inscribed stone gives the information that the present house It is evident, however,

was built by John Maxwell in 1802.

In the burning of 1752 everything in the house -

rebuilding or reconstruction.

from the interior that what happened then must have been

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last Maxwell to live in Fellows Hall .

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that in 1839 Thomas Knox Armstrong was residing there . It

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is indeed a pleasing fact that his grand-nephew, Mr . J . R.B.

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was occupied by Lieut . Col . George Augustus McClintock, son

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Sir James Matthew Stronge, 2nd Bart. of Tynan Abbey.

The McClintocks were an old Donegal family with

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branches at Rathvinden , Co. Carlow, Blessington, Co . Wicklow,

co. Tyrone, etc. Locally the family is, I

Seskinore,

sure, best remembered by Miss Isa McClintock, an outstanding

figure in the hunting world.

married Catherine Caroline Brownlow Stronge, daughter of

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of John McClintock of Drumcar, Co. Louth, who in 1850

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of the children was burned to death.

pictures, furniture, china, glass , etc. - was lost and one

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l . Vice-Admiral Sir Leopold McClintock who entered

Sir Leopold went to the Artie regions in

Fox" in search of Sir

Commanded the

travelling on ice .

Effected improvements in the methods of

1848 and 1852 .

year in existence .

the Navy in 183l)at which time Killylea Church was only one

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K. C. B.1891.

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Vice-Admiral 1877.

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Son of Major Henry Stanley of Kilwarlin House, Co .

1924.

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Dean of Armagh 1898 until his death in

Drumcar 1886-1924.

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2. Francis Joseph De Poer McClintock, Vicar of

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degrees conferred upon him. Died 1907 .

in 1868 was created Lord Rathdonnell .

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Down, brothe r of John McClintock of Drumcar, Co . Louth, who

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Capt . Robert Maxwell of Fellows Hall, son of the Rev . Henry

Maxwell of College Hall, brother of the first Lord Farnham

that marriage

John Tew had with other issue -

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who married Alderman John Tew, Lord Mayor of Dublin, son of David Tew, Lord Mayor of Dublin 1752 .

of the district descend from Margaret Maxwell, (daughter of

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By a strange coincidence three of the chief families

Knighted

1860 he had the Freedom of London and many University

John Franklin, bringing back evidence of his fate .

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1. Margaret who in 1784 married the Rev. William Jones Armstrong of Termonfeckin, Co . Louth , father of William

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Jones Armstrong, D. L. , J . P., of Killylea and Thomas Knox

Armstrong who lived at Fellows Hall, circa 1839 .

Mr . William

Jones Armstrong was, as you all lmow, the father of the late

Right Honble . Henry Bruce Armstrong , B. L. of Dean's Hill,

Co . Armagh, a former Lieutenant for Co . Armagh, and father

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Armstrong, D. L. of Dean' s Hill , Armagh .

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2. Helen Tew who married in 1785 the Rev. James

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Strenge of Tynan , created a baronet in 1803, ancestor of

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Northern Ireland House of Commons .

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the Right Honble . Sir Norman Strange, M. P. , Speaker of the

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Christopher Armstrong , M. P. and grandfather of Capt . Michael

of Mr . J . R.B. Armstrong, now of Fellows Hall, and of Col.

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Sure Killylea •s the little dandy, But if ye drink in Tynan It's there they'd pick yer pockets handy .

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The addition of whiskey to tea was considered true hospitality when dispensed to special friends. Nowadays the whiskey has been transferred to coffee and in Dublin is known as "Irish Coffee" and costs at least 3/6d. per cup .

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man from Caledon man from Middleto'n man from Killylea me tay .

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It wus not the It wus not the But it wus the Put whiskey in

In such rhymes place names can be transposed Killylea might be where 11 they pick your pockets handy 11 or even "a dirty hole" "that could bate them all when it came till drinkin' brandy".

Killyleafor drinking tay An' Tynan it 's the dandy But Cavanapole' s the dirty hole An' College Hall can bate them all When it comes till drinkin' brandy.

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APPENDIX I~ David Tew, Lord Mayor of Dublin in 1754

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Robert Maxwell, the second Baron Farnham was created a Viscount in 1761 and advanced to an Earldom in 1763. He died in 1779 whereupon the honours conferred upon himself became extinct and the barony devolved Upon his brother~ Barry Maxwell 3rd Baron Maxwell, who obtained a Viscounty in 1"!80, and an Ear dom in 1785. He was succeeded by his son James John Maxwell, 2nd Earl of Farnham . He died 1823 without issue whereupon his personal honours became extinct and the barony rev~rted to his kinsman, John Maxwell, 5th Baron Farnham.

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= Margaret Maxwell, daughter of Capt. Robert Maxwell of Fellows Hall son of the Rev. Henry Maxwell of College Hall, brother of John Maxwell, first Baron Farnham.

178 Margaret Tew = The Rev . William Jones Armstrong of Termonfechin, Co . Louth, grandfather of the late Henry Bruce Armstrong B.L . , formerly His Majesty's Lieutenant for Co . Armagh.

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Dean Robert Maxwell 1610-1622 debarred himself from further rvancement in the church by preventing Archbishop Henry Ussher l'Oll 118k:lng a fee farm grant of the See Lands of Armagh at per year for ever to a dependant of the Duke of Buckingham

f:reaent heir Barry Owen Somerset Maxwell , b . 1931, grandson of

te Lord Farnham (Father killed in World War II). Royal .. toent, 12th in descent from Henry VII.)

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1. John of Drumcar created Baron Rathdonnell in 1868.

2. William Bunbury McClintock Bunbury.*

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3. Fredrick William.

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Mr. McClintock married secondly in 1805 Lady Elizabeth third daughter of ·William Power Trench, 1st Earl of Clancarty and ' had further issue -

7. George Augustus of Fellows Hall, Lieut . Col . Sligo

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6. Major Henry Stanley McClintock, agent to the Marquess of Downshire .

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John McClintock,lst Baron Rathdonnell was created Baron Rathdonnell in 1868 (with limitations to his heirs male which failing to the heirs of his brother, Capt. Wm . B. McClintockBunbury, R.N., M.P.) who died without issue in 1879, whereupon he was succeeded by his nephew, Thomas Kane McClintock-Bunbury llho succeeded as 2nd Baron Rathdonnell, ancestor of the presen~ peer.

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Rifles, born 1822, who married in 1850 Catherine Caroline Brownlow, daughter of Sir James Matthew Strange, 2nd Bart ., for whose issue see McClintock of Rathvinden.

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Keady MiscellaJJea. Parish

A century and a half ago the parish was responsible tor

manY matters that now concern the County and Rural District

Councils, etc., Health and Welfare, etc.

In those days the Vestry was responsible tor the care

of roads in the districts and the pronsion of help tor the

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Houses and other parqohial officers such as Officers ot Health.

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amongst the poor of the par1 sh and a certain amount

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In the early days of the 19th century there was much

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or sent to a touncllinc home in Dublin.

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foundlings

ot moral laxity, resulting in babies being deserted known as

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in some cases to trace the parents they were sometimes given

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foundling was baptized Mary Keady, and in 1816 another

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the name ot the parish as a surname - for instance, in 1807,

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Keady

unfortunate child was for the same reason christened James

At that time beggars were plent11'ul. - some real objects

ot charity but many just able-bodied frauds, a state ot

Poor·

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luat vhen badges were t1rst issued in lteady I do not

Overseers of Poor, Overseers of Public

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Parish Constable who was ably assisted by the Churchwardens,

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va• 1eTered

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time atter th• parish ot Keady At anyrate the first notice ot

Derrynoose.

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the introduction ot "Poor Badges" here of which I have &DJ

record was in 1618 when one hundred badges were purchased, recommens

and two parishioners .fJ'011 each townland appointed to

such poor as were ellcible.

The badge• vere vorn

on a cord round the neck and poor caucbt begcin, in parishes

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the use

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o! the church bell to awake parishioners at 6 a.m. and

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labours - somewhat ot a contrast to the present times vben

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people only toil five short workine days per week, and

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without modern transport mirht re.tuse to work at all.

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11te<1, children had no d1tt1aultJ in valld.nr a tav mile•

and 1n the w.1.ntar micht have bean seen traapinc alon, vith

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a turf under each arm - their contribution to the beatinl

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The two ireat 1port1 in Keady then were cock fighting -

• 1011evhat cruel pastime - and a form ot tootball played

between riTal partie ■ tr011 dittarent townlands

running the chance ot bainr placed 1n tba stocks as well.

other than their own were liable to severe punishment, beside•

a game

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played across the fields and endinc in the tovnland ot There were rules tor the came but

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the defeated pla,er1.

they were not always obeyed and such amusements tJtequently

11t.1ch addicted to.

ended in tree tichts, a diversion that Keady people vere

Keady boasted a corps ot Volunteer, raised in 1780

sbortly attar the formation ot the parish, at a period

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The Keady company was c01111anded

ot Derrynoose and aonlisted ot about twen'7

by James Black

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threatened with invasion

when Britain was involved in war with America and Ireland

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Farnham.

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Farnham and seneschalor the Manor.

The company was

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1n the command bJ Mr. Samuel Cuming local acent to Lord

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a commission in a Fencibleregiment

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in 1782 at which Captain Black was expelled tor acceptinl

very

1796 a

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later Earl of Charlemont and

under Viscount Caulfeild

known as the Keady Cavalry, was formed

Yeomanry corps

1792 the Irish Volunteer• were disbanded

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companies to celebrate the recoveryot the king

ot which tbe Junior officers were cadet, ot the Holmes

Defenders and in 1789 it was one ot the many Volunteer

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creditable young men, tenants and tenants• son• under Lord

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Neville and Mathews families.

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to have ceased to !unction before 1820.

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In the parish there are hills still remembered as reminder ot the days when machinery tor

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grinding corn wa• some'What 1mpertect, a time when it

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austomary attar the tir at grinding to take the bruiaed

and it was not unusual

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were still in use titty years

Fairs were then places ot amusement as well as

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P1o"1reaque countryside.

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kept on Carrickatuke and Mullyash

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81.aaU.ar festival• known as Bilberry Sunday [blayberry are stillsunday]

and were wel.l. patronised.

tac111t1es tor match making

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tol'llerly held at Drumbunion.

ev.r7 summer were

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Patrons with games · and dancing

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ticht in his

Smith cives a vivid pen-pictu!'e ot a ~ady street

Ploughing was done by wooden ploughs

vard• back to the mill tor re-p-1nd1n1.

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grain to auoh hill• on windy days tor cleanin1 and ~er-

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Keady

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we shall travel at

times on the line ot an ancient traak or road by ltliob

the three Colla• penetrated in 332 A.D. in the !1c}lt as ■Ebl7

The deci11n

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to explore the reputed site

the attray.

battle was tought at Carnagh but time will not allow

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orovninc place or the kine• ot Ulster.

that ended EmainMacha' 11 career as the

There

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Customs Post.

11 a cairn site Just betore we reach the Free State

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Keady

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(A flat topped hill

Owes its or1c1n to havinc been advantaceously 11 tuated

on the Callan which issues from Clay Lough about a mile

and a halt south-west ot the town which with its numer0u1

talls attracted a croup or persons interested in the

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which it was first attempted to make linen from mill-spun

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introduced into the district.

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yarn, and there the manufacture ot tine linen was tirst

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Greenmount, Dundrum, Balleer

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at Annvale

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another tor sheeting at Dundrum

at New Holland and Darkley and bleach green

Flax spinning mills were erected about the same time

Some time pren.ous the

ot linen were annuall7 tinisbed.

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Milviev, Darkley and Linenvale where about 23;,000 pieces

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way as the result ot a

1822 the Clay Lake rampart

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dammed up to ensure a proper supply ot water.

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three lakes or Clay, Aughnagurgan and Tullynawoodwere

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aloud burst and a hue• volume ot water poured down dealing

two human live• were lo1t.

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linen, cattle, poultry, etc., fortunately

mill wheels

death and de1truotion in i ts cour se , oarryinc away trees,

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At Dundrum in 1826 a very large mill was erected in

in 1750.

linen trade llho formed a larce bleaching establishment heN

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Barly in the 19th century a lead mine was opened and wroucbt tor a tev years by the Mining Company of Ireland.

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1ome reason the vanture was not a success nor was a There is a

..oond attempt about lSltO any more luoky.

yer, v1 vid deaoription ot mi.nine operations here in

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"The little town of Keady sparkled in the

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Alexander Smith's "Summer in Skye", written in 1865 vhicb

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Mines were also opened

blotting out eyeeythinc beyond".

the sunlight, makinc a restless mimer in the air and

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Derrynoose parish and not until 1773 was any att•pt made

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to IUpply the growinc tovn with settled places ot vorsh1p -

the Roman Catholic Churoh indeed was not built until 1780.

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at Drumeland and Curryhughes [Carryhugh] As a parish Keady is not of any creat antiquity tr011

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and iron bars wrenched from tbe

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gained the day

Market House faced the local Yeomanry Corps and almost

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f1eroe fight in the Market Square when the revolutionaries armedwith spades

and ot a

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"horse toot and artillery

Man of War Hill with

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In 1798 many houses were burned and local tradition

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backed by a range of smelting furnaces the flames fanned

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In passing I may mention that it was in front ot that Market House that the old stocks were erected and

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there they remained until early in the followinc century

wtien a famous local poll t1c1an, '#ho had been confined in them, was liberated by his friends whereupon they were

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