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en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tynan_Abbey#Destruction_of_Tynan_Abbey Tynan Abbey in County Armagh, Northern Ireland, was a large neo-gothic-romantic country house built c. 1750 (later renovated c. 1815) and situated outside the village of Tynan. It was home to the Stronge family until 1981, when it was bombed; its ruins were demolished in 1998, having stood for 249 years.

Flickr is sometimes amazing! I think this may be the central arch and window, in 2010 via Paul Eliasberg

Mr French / Lawrence was there at least twice; see this earlier photo with the trees testicularly topiaried ! - catalogue.nli.ie/Record/vtls000318515

beachcomber australia "Testicularly Topiaried"????? That sounds positively painful:-(

I was wrong; the balls happened later than this! See this stereo pair and a similar one featuring a gent with a strange beard (he might be the topiarist!) - catalogue.nli.ie/Record/vtls000560754 catalogue.nli.ie/Record/vtls000336780 Ed. The 'gent' image was made into a postcard "c. 1905" - www.worthpoint.com/worthopedia/1905-tynan-abbey-now-destr...

I'm afraid it's another for the "no longer standing" album. It was burned down on August 12, 1922.

Streetview. 25" OSI

We should look at this castle and many more before deploring other organisations of our day for cultural barbarism and ignorance

The monks at Mount Melleray used the stone to build their new Abbey. www.flickr.com/photos/minamina/8698942667/in/photolist-ef...

We could all do WITHOUT "A Friend" like this...

It seems surprising to me that suffragettes would resort to arson. I wondered if the fire was really caused by reactionaries trying to make them look bad but apparently not. Were suffragettes more militant than I realized or were they more militant in Great Britain than the US? Here are a couple short articles in the New York Times dated March 11, 1913 which mention the fire. [1],[2] The date on this photo is currently set to 'some time in 1910. It should probably be set to March 11, 1913, or at least 'some time in 1913'.

Let’s hear it for Mrs. Pankhurst! SUFFRAGETTES TRY TO REACH THE KING 3/10/1910 New York Times … "Mrs. Pankhurst read the petition which it had been desired to present to the King. It declared that the militant movement for votes for women was endangering all forms of public and private property and had brought the administration and the law in to contempt." “All thinking persons”, it went on, “were eagerly and impatiently waiting to see whether the speech from the throne would contain a promise of legislation by which the suffragists’ violence and its consequences could be brought to append. “Votes for women” it continued, “Is the only cure for militancy. The revolting and futile policy of releasing hunger-strikers and re-arresting them, and again releasing them and re-arresting them, would simply bring discredit upon the Ministers responsible for it. Such treatment will never break the spirit of the women, though it will very likely bring about a tragedy, for although the women cannot be defeated they can be killed by persecution. If law and order are to be re-established in this realm, women must have votes.”

Good For Mrs Pankhurst! And, just in case someone is interested, the firm Suttons Seeds is still alive and well. Here is their history on their website www.suttons.co.uk/History.htm -- Seen on your photo stream. (?)

The railway station has its own Wikipedia entry which mentions this incident: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saunderton_railway_station

I never knew that suffragists resorted to terrorism. That's something the history books omit.