ROAD TO PORTROE / LAKESIDE / OUTSKIRTS

ROAD TO SHESHAROE

NEWTOWN - (An Baile Nua)

Old and new versions of the Church at Newtown

Barry's of Newtown

Youghalarra School, Monroe, Newtown (1931)

Beautiful timber clad colonial style house

Bullaun Stone at Ballycarridoge

Knockanfoil More Watermill

Disused watermill at Knockanfoil More, Newtown

Knockanfoil More Watermill

Pallasmore

Irish Builder and Engineer - 15/09/1899

YOUGHALARRA - (Eochaill)

The parish's of Youghal ( Youghil ) and Monsea ( Musea ) from the Down Survey by William Petty 1655-56

Youghalarra with St Conlans Church 21/07/1967

Handball Alley & St Conlans Church and Graveyard

To the side of St Conlans Well is another smaller well reputed to be effective in curing warts/eyes

Wonderful stone stile into St Conlans Graveyard

Stile into Handball Alley

St Conlan's graveyard

Handball Alley

One of the many houses owned by the Smithwick family - Youghal House (1800)

Limekiln - beautifully built Limekiln incorporating stone arch and dressed stone

Youghalarra Quay - originally used for off loading Turf, it is now a popular bathing place and hosts an annual Christmas Swim

PORTROE - (An Port Rua) (Shesharoe)

Built on the site of two earlier churches and a Ringfort, on land donated by Watson of Garrykennedy, the first mass was celebrated here on Christmas Day 1872. The church also boasts two stained glass windows from the Harry Clarke studio's

Shesharoe House - The Presbytery - 1880

(Pictorial Survey and Tourists guide of Lough Derg - William Stokes 1842)

View from Portroe Hill

War of Independence in Portroe

Portroe Barracks and it's importance as a link between Ballina and Nenagh during the War of Independence. Drawn by Tom Kenny 24/04/1940

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Portroe R.I.C. Barracks - (built 1830)

I.R.A. map with 7 personnel and their positions in attack on Portroe R.I.C. Barracks June 1921

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The Lookout

Views over Castlelough (John Hinde)

Castlelough (National Library)

James O'Dea collection - (National Library)

Loughtea Cross

Ruins of the original cross on Loughtea Hill, south-west of Portroe, placed there following the Eucharistic Congress of Dublin (1932)

View from the top on a Winters day

The 20-metre-high (66 ft) stainless steel Millennium Cross was erected in 2002 to mark the millennium and remnants of the original cross

Loughtea Bronze Age Hillfort. A single enclosing Bank following the contours of Loughtea Hill. One wonders if the inhabitants looked across the valley at the monument to their ancestors at the stone circle on Tountinna

(Archaelogy Ireland, Google Earth)