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The firft military antiquity we meet with to the 

 fouth of this county, is Green caflle, in the barony of 

 Mourne, ftanding upon an inlet of the fea. This is 

 faid to have been a ftrong caftle, fortified by the 

 Burghs, earls of Ulfler, and was remarkable for two 

 marriages celebrated here in 1312, one between Mau- 

 rice Fitzthomas and Catherine, daughter of the Earl of 

 Ulfler, on the fifth of Auguft, and the other between 

 Thomas Fitzjohn and another daughter of the fame 

 carl, on the fixteenth of the fame month. It was de- 

 flroyed by the Irifh in 1343, but afterwards repaired 

 and better fortified. It appears by a record in Ber- 

 mingham tower, of the firft of Henry IV. that Green 

 caftle and Carlingford caftle were governed by one 

 conftable, to fecure a communication between the 

 Englifti pale in the county of Louth, and the Englifli 

 fettlements in Lecale and the northern parts ; and that 

 Stephen Gernon was that year conftable of both caftles, 

 with a falary of twenty pounds for Green Caftle and 

 of five pounds for Carlingford. In 1495 it was thought 

 to be a place of fuch importance to the crown, that no 

 perfon but of Englifh birth was declared capable of 

 being conftable of it. This caftle was a garrifbn in the 

 rebellion of 1641, and helped to reftrain the Irifh in 

 thofe uncultivated parts. 



The caftle of Narrow- water, built on a rock in the 

 channel of Newry river, is of modern date, having 

 been erected by the Duke of Ormond after the Refto- 



ration. 



Newry 



