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Granemore Road, ARMAGH, BT60 3TE

Heading ESE from Bridge Street and Victoria Street

It is located at High Street

The following text is included in the description, "John Redmond Irish Parliamentary Party Leader after Parnell visited Keady on his country wide tour during the vital 1918 General Election. Large crowds had gathered as it was the main monthly fair day. Redmond was held by the belt of his trousers from the second storey corner window of Fair Green House as he addressed a crowd of more than two thousand people assembled in Cow Fair and Lir Street below. The speech incited the crowds so much there was great disturbance and many were injured in the violence which followed." Pictured here Image]

Pictured at the corner of High Street and Granemore Road My attention was drawn to a plaque on the wall here Image]

The plaque on Fair Green House at High Street, Keady states: JOHN REDMOND 1918 John Redmond Irish Parliamentary Leader after Parnell visited Keady on his country wide tour during the vital 1918 General Election. Large crowds had gathered as it was the main monthly fair day. Redmond was held by the belt of his trousers from the second story corner window of Fair Green House as he addressed a crowd of more than two thousand people assembled in Cow Fir and Lir Street below. The speech incited the crowd so much there was a great disturbance and many were injured in the violence which followed.

Pictured in Bridge Street

The Cooper Bar and Fair Green House from Victoria Street, Keady.

The Keady Hill bridge over the old railway on Granemore Road. To the left is the old Scala Cinema. From the 50s to the 90s hundreds leaving Mallon's old cinema would have to walk down the road. The cinema closed many years ago, but a new footbridge was attached to the left of the road bridge because the fields over the hill were developed for housing. The railway was opened in 1909 and closed in 1957. Mallon's Cinema closed in the early 1990s and Keady has not had a cinema since.

Granemore Road comes in from the right. The modern building on the left is the Keady branch of Libraries NI.

Granemore Road Bridge over the long closed Armagh, Keady, Castleblaney Railway. The railway from Armagh to Keady opened in 1909 and closed in 1957. The onward line along here to Castleblaney opened in 1910 and closed in 1924. The red-brick at the top right of the photo is the old Scala Cinema. For more info on this old railway see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Castleblayney,_Keady_and_Armagh_Railway