Louth Ireland

Formerly Gernonstown this village consisting of large country houses with lands surrounding them and situates 7 miles south of Dundalk on the N1 roadway. These manors are largely owned by the Bellingham family descendants of a captain in Cromwell’s army who received a grant of the confiscated lands of the Gernons of Gernonstown in the 1650’s. The castle once stood where, at present, stands the Bellingham Castle Hotel, an early 18^th century construction which was earlier the home of Bellinghams that underwent major remodeling later. Further renovations include the tower tutters and the gateway. You can access the river Glyde from the ground of this hotel. Also there are Widows Almshouses, cottages and boarding houses constructed by the Bellingham family in this village, perhaps to the deisgn of William Vitruvius Morrison. Also you find a roadside crucifix that was designed from a royal oak blown down in 1902.

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Lying just two miles north of Castlebellingham, dromiskin was an important catholic centre from the time of St Patrick. During the 14^th century this place was the residence of the archbishops of Armagh of whom one Milo Sweetman died here n 1380. The Danes of Annagassan used to plunder this early monastic centre which was later abandoned by the monks eventually taking refuge in St. Mochta’s of Louth. There remains a round tower surviving that period and stands in the churchyard of the Church of the Ireland Parish Church where once stood the monastery. The remains of a ringed-cross in the Celtic style and a carved 9^th/ 10^th century spiral pillar, part of the old church doorway also are visible here. The 15th century tower house of the Gernons of Milltown situates only a mile north west of this village.

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