IMAGES TAKEN NEAR TO
The Poets Glen, NEWRY, BT35 9EZ
Introduction
This page details the photographs taken nearby to The Poets Glen, BT35 9EZ by members of the Geograph project.
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Image Listing (46 Images Found)
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Distance
1
Glasdrumman Road exiting Creggan
This image was taken from the Cregganbawn Road junction.
Image: © Eric Jones
Taken: 10 Sep 2014
0.04 miles
2
The lower end of Cregganbane Road
The junction with Glasdrumman Road can be seen in the distance.
Image: © Eric Jones
Taken: 10 Sep 2014
0.07 miles
3
The O'Callaghan Johnston Plot at Creggan Graveyard
The enclosed plot contains the graves of the O'Callaghan's who were Catholic landowners who had amassed a fortune from distilling liquor. They were noted for their tight-fistedness when it came to paying poets and pipers for their service. This brought the wrath of the Gaelic poet Art MacCooey up on them. In his poem "Bodaigh n nEorna" (The Churls of the Barley) Art mocked the faux gentility of this nouveau riche family:
"The oul' dame's a sight, her lace is so tight,
Make money! that's all that she'd care to,
To buy silk and satin, a skirt for her bottom,
And a ringlet or two for her hair-do!
The daughter's a snob when she's out on the road,
On the new foreign fashions she seizes:
A hat that's all bound with a gold band around,
And a feather that ploughs through the breezes.
The curse of the friars and the vengeance of Rome
On the breed and the seed of the vipers
Who threaten each day and never would pay
A penny to poets and pipers".
Image: © Eric Jones
Taken: 10 Sep 2014
0.07 miles
4
Cregganbane Road at its junction with Glasdrumman Road
This junction is in the village of Creggan. Creggan Churchyard can be seen beyond the junction.
Image: © Eric Jones
Taken: 10 Sep 2014
0.07 miles
5
Madonna and Child over the Hearty Family Plot at the Creggan
Creggan has long been used for the burial of members of both religious communities. The statue marks the grave of Michael Hearty who died in 1908.
Image: © Eric Jones
Taken: 10 Sep 2014
0.08 miles
6
Houses in Trainor Crescent, off Cregganbane Road, Creggan
Image: © Eric Jones
Taken: 10 Sep 2014
0.08 miles
7
Poets' Trail Information Board outside Creggan Churchyard
The Poets' Trail is a series of three looped walks in the South Armagh-North Louth borderlands. The Creggan or O'Neill loop links Creggan and Roche Castle. The trails are named after the 18thC Gaelic poets Art MacCooey, Pádraig MacAliondain and Séamus Mór MacMurphy all three buried in the Creggan Churchyard.
http://www.cycleni.com/68/poets-trail--oneill-loop/
Image: © Eric Jones
Taken: 10 Sep 2014
0.09 miles
8
View across to the Eastwood Family Vault at Greggan Graveyard
Image: © Eric Jones
Taken: 10 Sep 2014
0.10 miles
9
The interior of the Eastwood Family Vault at Creggan Churchyard
The vault now seems to be used as a grave diggers hut. The window at the rear is said to allow sunshine in at the winter solstice.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/northernireland/yourplaceandmine/armagh/creggan_graves_2.shtml
Image: © Eric Jones
Taken: 10 Sep 2014
0.10 miles
10
The Eastwood Family Vault at Creggan Churchyard
The Eastwoods were a local landowning family. Some have sepculated that the building is a former church.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/northernireland/yourplaceandmine/armagh/creggan_graves_2.shtml
Image: © Eric Jones
Taken: 10 Sep 2014
0.10 miles