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Wuth a background in image media , With over 25 Years expertise , NewRayPics Image Agency and our award winning team of photographers, specialising in PR., Features, News and Sports photography, was based in Newry, County Down, Northern Ireland. Newraypics experienced photographers have been awarded two numerous 1st & 2nd place awards in the highly regarded NIPP

A Northern Ireland Press Photographers Association) as well as Photojournalism Awards in 2008/9, and 2011 plus a commendation in 2009. We regularly undertake assignments from the Broadsheet and Tabloid market including The Guardian, Daily Mail, Daily Mirror, The Sun, The Irish Examiner, Belfast Telegraph, The Irish News, The Newsletter, Irish Independent and Irish Times as well as features work for Periodic Magazines across the United Kingdom and Ireland additional to that we have a working relationship with local Press including The Newry Democrat,The Cross Examiner, Newry Reporter and Mourne Observer - more recently we have been suppling one of the largest photo agency's in the world - Alamy -

To a degree or soo . Newraypics overtime had the honor to also supply all Irish newspapers with live news events and our work has appeared in publications all over the world, Our archive (currently 400,000 images) is represented by some of the world's largest stock photography agencies - namely Getty Images, Zuma Press and Alamy Images. My photography has been licensed/commissioned by the following Corporations, Publications and Newswires: The Irish Examiner, The Irish Times, Sunday Business Post, Sunday Times,Red Bull, Bank of Ireland,Ulster Bank, RTE, BBC, UTV, Channel 4,CNN, The Guardian (UK),, The Times (UK), The Independent (UK)The Telegraph (UK). LA Times, New York Daily News and Daily Mail, and my work has been reproduced all over the world including Japan, South America, USA, Russia. I also have over 1,000 (that's correct one thousand) Pearson Publishing book covers that have been created with my images. I live 3kms outside Newry, County Down with my 4 chickens - distance no object! I am a fully insured, and have close links with the National Union of Journalists and the with Irish Press Photographers Association…

Once upon a time after I’d sampled all all of the above .. slowly I lost faith in myself and my natives .. how had I who sees everything .. not see the sorrow I was in … Due to a few forks in my life .. I lost my way . I shuttered up , I went to my safe place .. a dark room .. . , over time my batteries failed my camera old wore out , and me Getting 🤧 unhealthy was an added bonus ., sure I hadn’t two legs to stand on for the guts of a year . These and alas more ,,, Pausing my talented eye , lost and alone . and Sure I spent half the weeks daylight hours in a dark room printings as a young man .. where I was alone .. I think I always did .. ... anyhow .,. My photography yarn .. it’s starts when I was very young

But that’s for later exposure .. …..

02/09/2026

Wee yarn .. i thought he said “Come to Newry !”

Wee yarn… my search for Saint Patrick & the origins of Christianity continues .. on. A bus not far from Newry , max look...
02/09/2026

Wee yarn… my search for Saint Patrick & the origins of Christianity continues .. on. A bus not far from Newry , max looked out the window to see this .. .. as see that wee green island sitting quietly in the middle of what is Milltown Lough, in the townland of Milltown within the old parish of Clonallan? At the back of Burren.

Well, it appears it may not be an island at all—but a probable crannog, a locally man Made artificial lake dwelling built from timber, brushwood, stone & earth. But was it an old holy sight? Site?

Basically, long before planning permission, building control or a councillor arrived carrying an oversized ceremonial shovel… somebody looked across this wee lough & thought:

“I’ll build me house a church a temple out there.”

Crannogs were often occupied by prosperous Ulster farming families or local chieftains, Druids, abbots & monasteries which are all
Historically occupied this area . . They offered privacy, protection & the distinct advantage that anyone calling unexpectedly had to swim.

The surviving mound is listed cautiously as an early medieval crannog, possibly dating somewhere between around AD 200 & 1100—making it perhaps 1,000 to 1,800 years old. If not even older

What we see today may only be the wee reed-covered crown of it. Beneath the water & mud could lie a much larger platform, timber piles, stones, the remains of a dwelling & perhaps even an old submerged causeway leading back to shore.

Now, Milltown Lough sits within the historic ecclesiastical landscape of Clonallan, on lands long associated with the old church. The lordship of Newry had a chapel Of ease not far away .. But before we put a wee monk in a boat with a bell, a Bible & his lunch wrapped in a dock leaf… there is presently no proof that monks actually built or lived upon it. As no research. Has ever been done.

Church estates frequently absorbed much older farms, forts, mills, wetlands & settlements. So the crannog could predate the monastic lands, belong to the same period, or have housed a secular family farming land connected with the church.

In other words, it may have been an early medieval island homestead rather than a monastery—but until archaeology examines what survives beneath the reeds, the wee island is keeping its mouth firmly shut.

Still, there it sits in Milltown Lough… overlooked by generations, surrounded by old hedgerows & green fields, possibly guarding the remains of a forgotten Clonallan household beneath the water.

A home built without foundations on dry land, without an access road & apparently without anyone objecting on Facebook.

Sure they were fierce advanced altogether.

Wee yarn .. Max having a wee sit down under a tree . .
02/09/2026

Wee yarn .. Max having a wee sit down under a tree . .

02/09/2026

Wee yarn .. everything is smelling of roses . Hee hee

02/09/2026

Wee watery yarn to enjoy .. with a little history to boot .. .

Wee yarn … last of the Summer wine …. three men & a dog under the popes oak tree in the cathedral gardens ..
02/09/2026

Wee yarn … last of the Summer wine …. three men & a dog under the popes oak tree in the cathedral gardens ..

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