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JONESBOROUGH , east of Slieve Gullion, is the venue each Sunday for
a vast open-air market (11am-5pm), drawing traders and customers from
both sides of the border. The range of goods on offer is equally
enormous and it's well worth experiencing. The excellent Flurrybridge
Inn serves lunches Thursday to Sunday and holds occasional sessions.
Two miles south of Jonesborough is the Pillar Stone of Kilnasaggart , a
beautifully inscribed monument, dating from 700 AD, which marks the site
of an early Christian cemetery. Several small crosses are marked within
circles on its back face, and the defaced markings on its edges are
possibly ogham writing. It's surrounded by several other tiny stones
with similar cross markings, all held within a pentagonal enclosure
three fields away from the roadside, behind a farmhouse. Less than a
mile west of here, on the other side of the train line, you should be
able to see Moyry Castle on the hill. This is a timid affair and not
really worth even this slight detour, but among its interesting features
are several musket loopholes. It was built in 1601 by Lord Mountjoy,
Queen Elizabeth I's deputy, as the defence for the Gap to the North.
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