Google Streetview & History

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http://maps.google.ie/?ie=UTF8&ll=51.814717,-8.859057&spn=0.01889,0.038581&t=h&z=15&layer=c&cbll=51.813633,-8.856778&panoid=nj4o2gJ9L8d2W1qx6fYR7g&cbp=12,131.69,,0,3.2

'Republican' Newry:

http://newryrepublican.blogspot.com/2010/03/republican-newry-on-google-streetview.html

delta_bravo wrote: »

I think this can be an excellent resource for history in a classroom and for anyone. You could locate statues, plaques etc.

Perhaps we could share areas we have found. What I am looking for here is if anyone knows the exact spot where Kevin O'Higgins was killed. Its here somewhere but perhaps someone local may know if theres a plaque or marking along the road?

I think he was shot at the junction between Booterstown Avenue and Cross Avenue. There used to be a little cross marked into the concrete along the footpath near the entrance to Sans Souci, if memory serves me right.

Looking at that Google Map image, it may have been lost. I grew up in Booterstown so I always had an interest in his assasination.

Lots of people have done up their houses around there during the boom years, including replacing the footpaths and boundary walls. It's a shame if its gone, because it would be another sign of people's feckless obsession with property eliminating another little bit of history.

GusherING wrote: »

I think he was shot at the junction between Booterstown Avenue and Cross Avenue. There used to be a little cross marked into the concrete along the footpath near the entrance to Sans Souci, if memory serves me right.

Looking at that Google Map image, it may have been lost. I grew up in Booterstown so I always had an interest in his assasination.

Lots of people have done up their houses around there during the boom years, including replacing the footpaths and boundary walls. It's a shame if its gone, because it would be another sign of people's feckless obsession with property eliminating another little bit of history.

Just came across this as I was reading about Kevin O'Higgins, coming up to the 90th anniversary of his shooting. I grew up in Booterstown and still live there. I remember the cross inscribed in the concrete. It wasn't on the footpath though, it was on the road. Literally on the area facing into the gutter of the road, on San Souci Park. If you were walking down Booterstown Avenue towards the Church, as you crossed San Souci Park road you would walk over it just before you stepped back up onto the pavement after crossing, (if you know what I mean?). That was there in the 1970's, my memory of it is very clear.

I checked recently, and it is no longer there.