Aghacommon 2019

I visited Lurgan in May, 2019, and took a few pictures whilst wandering around Aghacommon. Click on the pictures to enlarge them.

The Corner House Bar stands at the intersection of Ballynamoney, Derrymacash, and Kilvergan Roads.

It looks old, and I wondered if it was there when our ancestors made their way to church. I stopped in for a cup of tea, and asked the waitress how long the building had been there. She estimated it was at least 25 years.

St. Patrick's Roman Catholic Church and Cemetery, on Derrymacash Road. I took more pictures in and around the church.

The road to Kilvergan Townland cuts through the countryside. Now open fields, this land was once filled with homesteads.

Looking west from Kilvergan Road, a view of Aghacommon that Griffith says would have been plots 13 and 22a in 1864.

And in the distance to the left, perhaps plot 14, the homestead of the prolific Eugene McAtamney and his 20 children.

Aghacommon with Griffith's 1864 Map References

At the corner of Kilvergan Road and Tannaghmore Gardens.

The Griffith map says this is the northern corner of Aghacommon Plot 9, which was George Ruddell's farm in 1864.

Looking south across Aghacommon Plot 9.

This is likely the same view that George Ruddell had in 1864.