Ballymascanlon
Situated within a mile distance eastwards for the roundabout of the N1 with the main road to Carlingford, the name is derived from Scanlon, son of Fingin chief of Ui Meith who died in 672. His descendant MacScanlon is credited with a defeat of the Danes in Dundalk bay in 833. In the Norman-English period the Ballymascanlon destrict extending northwards to Carrikarnon was granted by Hugh de Lacy to Mellifont Abbey and after the dissolution of the monasteries in the 16th century the property passed to the Moores, the grantees of the monastic properties of Mellifont abbey. In the latter part of that century it was with its tower house, long since demolished, for a short time in the hands of Hugh O'Neill earl of Tyrone.
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