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| | Newry Parish, Counties Down & Armagh, Ireland, ©Jane Lyons (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01) |
 | | The Newry flour-mills, worked by water, consume 900 tons of wheat annually, and there are several others in the immediate neighbourhood, the produce of which is mostly shipped to Liverpool. |
 | | The communication is carried on from the Newry water by an artificial cut by Acton, Scarva, Tanderagee, and Gilford to Portadown, where it is connected with the river Bann, whence it proceeds in the bed of that river to the lake. |
 | | In the Roman Catholic arrangements the parish is the head of the Diocese of Dromore being the bishop's parish or mensal and is co-extensive with that of the Established Church, containing three chapels, two in the town and one at Shinn, 4 miles distant, which are attended by the same number of curates. |
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