Where the Mountains of Mourne go down to
the sea...
Photos courtesy of Anne Kearney
Anne McClorey Hoey Kearney was born in
this house which is now destroyed except for the foundation.
It was part of the McKay family holdings. Anne's
mother was a McKay and they had four farms in County Down.
When I took the slides it was part of a sheep field.
To get to it, you take the Yellow Road past ME Rice's old
house, then you have to go through a farmer's yard and down a
farm "road" which gets progressively worse with huge
rocks until you must abandon the car and walk the rest of the
way. Beautiful but I have no clue how you would get out
of that valley in the winter. It would be a good hike
into Hilltown to attend Mass or shop. My best guess is
that Hilltown is now maybe 1,000 or so. The townland
where the house was located was called Cleomack. That was
not an official designation but was one that the priest gave
it.
McClory/McKay Land Holdings
