Above center is a photo of the Blessed Virgin Mary Church of Newryabbey in 1590 according
to this English map. Note the cross above these church buildings, these building still stand today at the entrance to Lidl. They are now called Bagenals Castle. If you
knew just what this man done to Newry people you would be sick each time you passed
the place. The buildings are on your right as you drive into Lidls
store . The building on the left in the picture above has a great arch in
it, this arch outline can still be SEEN TODAY . In the museum. This buildings proper title is the (church of the 9 alters)&
or the Blessed Virging Mary. The church has been mutilated by Newry and Mourne Council in recent times & a mass burial in its floor desecrated !! The building on the right is in my opinion the choir of the church,
its a building which in 2006 when butchered by our council ranked as the best
preserved medieval choir In Ireland. The history of this great Abbey church
was redifined recently at a cost of £2.5 million, £1 million of this rate
payers money. Newry & Mourne says the Choir building was built brand new in or about 1568_1670 give or take a hundred years. Naturally no plans or documents exist for such
a place. In fact none of the Bagenals ever lived at no 20 Boat street Newry.
The most important point in all this is that this map above
was drawn 50 or more yrs after Nicholas Bagenal died. No ordinance survey maps have any mention of this supposed Castle. |
