Gosford Desmsne
The townland of Gosford Demesne is in the parish of Mullaghbrack in Armagh County.
The school within the desmesne was described in 1838 in the Ordnance Survey
Memoirs:
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“Gosford school (male and female), a pretty ornamented cottage surrounded by
flower pots, situated in the Gosford demesne, Markethill, established June 1815;
income: from Lady Gosford 40 pounds per annum; expenditure: salary of master
and mistress 40 pounds per annum; intellectual instruction: Scriptures, reading,
writing and arithmetic, girls are taught needlework; number of pupils: males,
35 under l0 years of age, 27 from 10 to 15, 13 above 15, a total of 75; females,
20 under 10 years of age, 28 from 10 to 15, 17 above 15, a total of 65; total
number of pupils 140, 59 Established Church, 52 Presbyterians, 29 Roman Catholics,
1 other denomination; master and mistress: John Woodhouse and Mary Woodhouse,
Established Church, visited 21st August 1837, [signed] J.H. Williams.” (Ordnance
Survey Memoirs 1835-38)
PRONI records: D.1606/6A/1 (Working plan of Gosfort Demesne.C 1800); T.3323
(Photographs of castle and china porcelain.); D.1606 (Gosford correspondence
re building materials for Gosford Castle.); D.1618/18/11 (Album of photographs
of Armagh and Tyrone scenery including exterior of Gosford Castle.); D.1606/6A/3
(Rough map and elevation of intended approach to Gosford Castle.C 1834); D.1606/6A/4
(Rough plan of intended approach to Gosford Castle by Alex? Richmond.); D.1606/6A/5
(Plan and section of intended approach and back entrance to Gosford Castle,
by Alex? Richmond.); D.3520 (Sale catalogue of contents of castle.); T.2437/1-2
(2 copies of sale catalogue.); D.603 (Survey.); OS/6/2/17/1 (Surveyed 1835.
Engraved 1835.); OS/6/2/17/2 (Surveyed 1835. Engraved 1835. Revised 1860. Engraved
1863.); OS/6/2/17/3 (Surveyed 1835. Revised 1906. Published 1908. Reprinted
1929, 1932.); OS/6/2/17/4 (Surveyed 1906. Revised 1954-5. Levelled 1889, 1892
and 1906. Published 1958 (2 copies).); VAL/1B/213 (1st valuation records.);
VAL/12B/10/34A, VAL/12B/10/34B, VAL/12B/10/34C, VAL/12B/10/34D (Valuation annual
revision list.); VAL/2B/2/12A (Griffith valuation list.); D.2557 (Photographs
of architectural details of Gosfort Castle.C 1968); T.1417 (Sale catalogue of
furniture, etc.); T.1460 (Military billeting plans.); D.1664 (13 photographs.).
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