Pigot's Directory of Charlemont, Loughgall Parish, County Armagh, Northern Ireland 1824
Transcribed, Compiled and Submitted by
Len Swindley, Melbourne, Australia
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CHARLEMONT is a small but strongly garrisoned town in the county of Armagh divided from Moy by the Blackwater River, over which is a neat stone bridge of five arches; the river is navigable from Lough Neagh to Blackwater-town, for lighters of 50 to 60 tons, and thus forms a communication with the Belfast and Newry canals. Previous to the Union, Charlemont was a borough, and sent two members to the Irish Parliament; it is still a corporate town, and is governed by a portreeve and twelve burgesses; the present portreeve is William Byers, esq. The fort or garrison was established in the year 1602 by Lord Charles Mountjoy, at that time the Lord Deputy of Ireland. It is memorable for having made a noble defence, conducted by Sir Teague O’Regan, in the early part of the year 1690, though on the 12th of May of the same year it was obliged to surrender with only 800 men beside women and children. The first governor of Charlemont was Sir Toby Caulfield; the present governor is Sir John Doyle. Here are a small Methodist chapel and a Sunday school. The manufacture of linen is considerable and gives employment to upwards of 1500 persons in the town and neighbourhood. A market is held here every Saturday and there are fairs on the first of May, and the 1st of November. The population is about 500.
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GENTRY
William BYERS, Esq. Portreeve
OFFICERS OF THE GARRISON
SURNAME GIVEN NAME ADDRESS WEIR George Store keeper GRANT Maximillian Clerk in the engineer’s office NELSON John C. Clerk of the ordnance department SMART Robert Clerk to the store keeper
MERCHANTS, TRADESMEN &C.
MERCHANTS
SURNAME GIVEN NAME TRADE BYERS Jackson, esq Linen JACKSON John General
PUBLICANS
SURNAME GIVEN NAME BENNETT Thomas CALLEN Robert LOCKHART William MCKELL James MCKITTERICK John MCNESPY Owen THOMPSON Robert TOBIAS Thomas
SHOPKEEPERS, TRADERS &C.
SURNAME GIVEN NAME TRADE CRAIG James Tailor DICKSON Benj. Saddler & harness maker HEATHER Jno. Saddler & harness maker MCKITTERICK Sarah Haberdasher MORELAND Elizabeth Tallow chandler & grocer YOUNG William Grocer
CoachThe royal mail passes through Moy and Charlemont from Dublin to Dungannon, every morning at nine, and returns from Dungannon to Dublin at five in the afternoon.
Carriers
Goods are conveyed by land to any part of Ireland by hired cars, and by water to Lough Neagh, as far as Maghrey and thence to Newry or Belfast, by canal.
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