The widespread evidence, in the form of hill forts and crannogs, of over a thousand years of celtic occupation of the South Armagh area is examined, with detailed descriptions of some of them at Lisleitrim. Lough Ross and Corliss.

An interesting account of the vestry book between 1738 and the end of the century reveals the surprising range of activities in which it was involved - from the maintenance of the fabric of the church and graveyard, to the employment of constables and schoolteachers, the maintenance of roads, the care of orphans and support of the destitute. "...the work of the vestry was done by simple ordinary men as part of the natural business of life and for that reason the ...books can make an interesting and significant contribution to local history." The article includes the names of the church wardens in the 18th, 19th and 20 Centuries and an index of all the names in the books themselves.

A detailed account of the medical and literary life of a locally born gaelic poet and scholar.

Following a period of disturbances, including murder and mutilation in the early 1970s, a military barracks was built at Belmont in Shanroe and became a centre of terror to the local population during and after the 1798 Rebellion. The article follows its history to the present day.

A Report of the condition of the Deanery (covering the Parishes of Creggan, Newtownhamilton, Chapelry of Ballymoyer, Lough Gilly, Killeavey, Jonesborough and Forkhill) compiled in 1798 by Rev. Percy Jocelyn - taken from a typescript in the National Library of Ireland, together with some modern notes on the clergy named in the report.

An account of the distressing consequences for eleven families of rack renting by a greedy and uncaring absentee landlord and his arrogant agent in 1888.

Extracts from a local newspaper in New South Wales and some photographs of the visit.

Flax was an important rural industry in the 19th and early 20th centuries, reaching a peak in 1868 (due to the decline in cotton imports as a result of the American Civil War), tapering off to almost nothing by the end of World War II. This article describes the processes involved as well as local interest stories.

The author's personal recollections of a visit to the other Crossmaglen and the personalities he met there.

Frank Short's follow-up to his Australian visit was a phone tie-up (thanks to Telecom Eireann) between the pupils of his school in Castletown Co Louth and those of Crossmaglen Public School, New South Wales. This report from the Dundalk Democrat summerises the event.

A brief account of an expanding family who arrived in Cloghoge in 1744 from the Lecale area of County Down and who dispersed through the area and into the USA, where some became near neighbours of the notorious outlaw Jessie James.

An advertisement for the sale of a newly built Scutch Mill in the town of Crossmaglen in 1884.