History Of Woodschapel - St. John's
Pre-Reformation to 1731 The Parish of Woodschapel existed before the Reformation of the sixteenth century under the name of Ross English, with a Church, Glebe and Glebehouse. This is evident from a return made to King Henry VIII in 1540 A.D. In the parish there is a graveyard known as Eglish, which has a tombstone dated 1700 A.D., it is thought...Read More
History of Gracefield
Gracefield 1767-1900 In 1767 over 100 acres of land, in Ballymaguigan, were up for sale and were bought, on a perpetual lease, by the Ancient Protestant Episcopal Moravian Church. The Moravians had first come to Lisnamorrow in 1748 and when the Moravian Bishop visited there, in June 1750, he decided it should become the ce...Read More
