Lisnagrot Temperance
Loyal Orange Lodge 1517MESSAGE RE-SEND!
I would be grateful if the two people from New Zealand and Australia who e-mailed me in May of this year would re-send their messages as there was an unfortunate deletion at my computer!!
(Meets in Kilrea Orange Hall monthly)
Worshipful Master - Bro. Leslie Blair
Deputy Master - Bro. Thomas Torrens
Hon. Secretary - Bro. Andrew Killough
Hon. Treasurer - Bro. John Adams P.M.
European Institute of
Protestant Studies -Click
here
Wor. Bro. Kyle is also the Deputy County Grand Master for Co. Londonderry
Famous Visitors have included the Mohawk L.O.L. from Toronto who came in
July,1990.
Lodge Records and Minute Books go back 150 years.
Photo adjacent shows the late
Bro. Ian McIlrath D.M. standing in an old World War I trench used by men of the
36th (Ulster) Division in Thiepval Wood at the site of the Battle of the Somme.
One of our former W.Ms. (Bro. Richie) was killed near the Somme in the 1st World
War (Photo-July 1st, 1989)
Ian's book which he was compiling called 'The Forgotten Heroes of Kilrea - 1914 to
1918' was published posthumously in 2003 by the Kilrea Local History
Group.
Click here to check-out the Somme Association Website
Click here
to link to find original signatories (and their actual signatures) of the Ulster Covenant
1912
(From papers of the Ulster Unionist Council deposited in vaults
at the Public Record Office in Belfast - Your ancestors might be here!)
Click
here to search for details from the Commonwealth War Graves Commission
of those who served and died in WW I
KILREA PIPE BAND
Kilrea Pipe Band with some of their trophies won in 1998
(Photographed outside Kilrea Orange Hall)
See also Grand Orange Lodge of Ireland
and friends in Canada at Harmony L.O.L. 296
And the Orange Arch Site
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