So for the next weeks, while #LockdownIreland lasts, we will walk every street in the state-sanctioned 2 kilometers around our house. Here’s the first of our #plaguewalks:
The first thing we always encounter is Seatown Castle, actually the bell tower of a 13th century Franciscan monastery. Interestingly, it was once... 
... plundered by invading Scots, Scots brought over by Edward the Bruce in 1315 in his claim for the Irish crown. He crowned himself High King of Ireland in Dundalk the same year, just a few streets away from the castle in a location that is today Micheal McCourt’s pub.
Further down Mill Street, a reminder that long before water meters were a political issue in Ireland, someone in Louth County Council bought some water meter covers from Wabash, Indiana. #psychogeography
At the end of Mill Street: the Windmill Tower from 1798, built and operated by Mr James Kieran.
On Quay Street the memorials to John and Patrick Watters, the sons of the publican of the nearby Windmill Bar, shot here by Black and Tans or Auxiliaries on the 18th of June, 1921. #plaguewalks
A pub with no name on the corner of Jocelyn Street and St Alphonsus Road, the Ramparts River or former Mill Race flowing underneath it.
On St Alphonsus Road. #psychgeography
We end today at St Joseph’s Redemptorists Church and monastery from the late 19th century. More #plaguewalks soon.
