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Flickr sometimes amazes! Looking sad in 2012 via Ulster Architectural Heritage Society

From the DIA: 1880- Constructed in mass concrete, & reputedly first in Ireland to be lit by hydroelectric power. Laid out formal gardens with parterres, a fountain and a polygonal conservatory linked to the house for Robert Garmany McCrum. No mention of a house for the Little People.

Robert G. McCrum is 71 in the 1901 census, a widower, a JP and Linen Manufacturer. Living in a house with 40 rooms, 15 windows to the front. 81 in 1911. He died in 1915, William McCrum in attendance, so Robert was the owner when this photo was taken.

History and (big) people - lordbelmontinnorthernireland.blogspot.com/2014/05/milford...

"Milford House was the one [wonder?] of its age. The most technologically advanced house in 19th century Ireland - the first in Ireland to be lit with hydro electricity. The creation of Robert Garmany McCrum, self made industrialist, benefactor and inventor who revolutionized the linen industry. His son William invented the penalty kick rule in football (which makes Milford world famous!) and his daughter Harriette was a founding member of the women’s suffragette movement in Ireland. By 1880 Milford House had six bathrooms each with a Jacuzzi and Turkish bath and a waterfall in the dining room. From 1936 to 1965 it was home to the Manor House School. ... ..." From - discovernorthernireland.com/things-to-do/milford-house-p7... The future - www.milfordhouse.org/the-future

Well there's the station: www.google.ie/maps/@54.356032,-6.6577,3a,75y,25.66h,75.78... The line ran east/west through it though. I 'm not sure how you'd have got this view from the south. THe ariel view shows the main line: www.google.ie/maps/place/Armagh,+UK/@54.3562801,-6.662528... Any southern spur has been built over now.

derangedlemur Wikipedia mentions the Castleblayney, Keady & Armagh line, which closed in 1957, and went via Irish Street Halt and Milford.

Sharon Corbet Yep. You can see the line of it here: www.google.ie/maps/place/Armagh,+UK/@54.3562801,-6.662528...

Actually, Lonsdale road may have been the original link between the east and west parts of the line, in which case there'd be a view form the south there as well. I think Irish street is more likely though - it looks like a single line.

derangedlemur The direction through the station looks north-south enough to me, to be honest. The chimney is visible in the right here. And you can just make out the station roof just to the right of the chimney in the photo above.

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...