Retiring barracks18c.ucd.ie

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The ‘Our Shared Built Military Heritage’ project has its roots in a pilot project, ‘The Army Barracks of Eighteenth-Century Ireland’. That project was was led by Ivar McGrath, Patrick Walsh and Suzanne Forbes, and supported by seed funding from UCD Research, a research award from UCD College of Arts and Celtic Studies and an IRC Government of Ireland ‘New Foundations’ award. The pilot project website, barracks18c.ucd.ie, was retired in March 2024.

The website showcased an online map of barracks established in Ireland in the eighteenth century prepared by the pilot project team. That map provided the foundation for the work of the ‘Our Shared Built Military Heritage’ project and the barracks map that is now available on this website.

Group of seven people posing outdoors with car, buildings and fields in background.
Visit to Hamiltonsbawn, 2014. L-R Neil McGleenon, Sam McHugh, Patrick Walsh, Mary McHugh, Timothy Watt, Suzanne Forbes, Ivar McGrath. Photograph by Michael Kennedy. Project Images.

In August 2014, Ivar McGrath, Patrick Walsh, Suzanne Forbes, Michael Kennedy and Tim Watt visited eight barracks sites in County Armagh. Webpages providing details of the location of each site, as well as images, descriptions and histories, were also made available on the pilot project website. You can use the URLs listed below to locate archived copies of these the County Armagh Pilot Study entries via the Wayback Machine on Archive.org.

  • Armagh City 1 (or Armagh Gaol), [https://barracks18c.ucd.ie/armagh-city-2/]
  • Armagh City 2 (or Gough Barracks), [https://barracks18c.ucd.ie/armagh-city-2/]
  • Blackbank, [https://barracks18c.ucd.ie/blackbank/]
  • Charlemont, [https://barracks18c.ucd.ie/charlemont/]
  • Fourmile House, [https://barracks18c.ucd.ie/fourmile-house/]
  • Hamiltonsbawn, [https://barracks18c.ucd.ie/hamiltonsbawn/]
  • Johnston’s Fews, [https://barracks18c.ucd.ie/johnstons-fews/]
  • Shanroe, [https://barracks18c.ucd.ie/shanroe]

We remain grateful to the local residents who assisted us during the research trip, as follows:

  • Brian Hoey, Gap o’ the North Hillwalking Club.
  • Fr Dermot Maloney
  • Dr Neil McGleenon, Secretary of Markethill Historical Society
  • Mary McHugh
  • Sam McHugh
  • Kevin Murphy
  • Seamus Murphy, Gap o’ the North Hillwalking Club
  • Dr Pádraigín Ní Uallacháín
  • Una Walsh.

We are also grateful to Eoin Scarlett and Jeff McKay for their assistance preparing material for the barracks18c.ucd.ie website.

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