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Collon (Irish: Collann)[3] is a village and townland in the south west corner of County Louth, Ireland, on the N2 national primary road. The village is home to the Cistercian Abbey of New Mellifont, and to Collon House, ancestral home of the Foster family.

Collon Collann
Village
The Foster homestead at Collon
Collon Location in Ireland
Coordinates: 53°46′43″N 6°28′52″W
Country	Ireland
Province	Leinster
County	County Louth
Area [1]
• Total	17.69 km2 (6.83 sq mi)
Elevation	128 m (420 ft)
Population  (2016)[2]	896
Time zone	UTC+0 (WET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC-1 (IST (WEST))
Irish Grid Reference	O001820

History of Collon

The Church of Ireland parish church at the lower end was built in 1810 to a design by Daniel Augustus Beaufort who was the rector between 1789 and 1821. There is a memorial in the graveyard at the front of the church to men of the parish who died during the 1914–18 Great War, inscribed on the front is the name of Lt. James Emerson V.C. who was born in the village. The church has been described as "dramatic and atmospheric" and hosted the 2008 Ardee Baroque Festival.[4]

The Foster family, who came to Ireland from Cumberland in the seventeenth century, were for several generations the dominant influence in Dunleer, which they represented in the Irish House of Commons. Collon House, the family seat was built about 1740 by Antony Foster, Chief Baron of the Irish Exchequer, and extended in the 1770s by his son John Foster, 1st Baron Oriel, the celebrated "Speaker Foster".

John Foster was both a politician and businessman who encouraged the growth of the linen industry in Collon by facilitating the construction of mills which employed Protestant weavers who settled in the area.[5] The freestanding red brick chimney that remains standing today, dates back to the 1860 linen mill located on the west side of School Lane, Collon (Coordinates – 300184, 281694).[6] South of Collon, where the linen factory was located, was known as the Bleach Green. Employees carried out spinning and weaving, where often at times the bleaching of linen could take up to forty acres.[7] The Collon linen industry was continued by the De La Hoyde family post John Foster. They developed three corn mills alongside the River Mattock which were a big enough success to export oatmeal across the channel to England.[8]

In the 1840, Collon was described as “a remarkably neat” town and credit was given to its proprietors the Fosters.[9] The town consisted of a market-house that improvements were made to by the Fosters during the end of the 18th century and into the 19th century. It was common at the time for landlords to invest into urban projects and improvements such as these market-houses and expect in return tenants would make their improvements to their own properties, this allowed for Collon to grow more attractive to new tenants.

The Foster family were political, therefore the market-house was used to register land tenants to vote in the parliamentary elections.[9] John Foster had reliable tenants who would vote due to the convenience of the Collin market-house, which put him at an advantage over other political candidates.

At one point there was a Russian language school in the village, which was founded by White Russian emigres, Nicholas Couris and his wife. It is rumoured that the British spies Philby, Burgess and Maclean visited the school as part of their Russian language training.^{[citation needed]}

Collon is home to an animal sanctuary where animals are homed until suitable accommodation is found.^{[citation needed]}

The village is home to three longstanding public houses; Matthews Bar (est. 1896), Watters Bar (est. 1954) & Donegans Pub.^{[citation needed]}

Sport

Mattock Rangers, a local GAA club, were Louth Senior Football Champions in 2002, 2004, 2009 and 2010.

In 2015 Mattock, amalgamated with Hunterstown Rovers and Glen Emmets, won the under 21 county championship by defeating Noaimh Finbarrs/O'Connells on a scoreline of 0–15 to 0-06.[10] In 2019, the club won the Leinster Intermediate Club Football Championship.[11]

See also

• Mellifont Abbey
• List of towns and villages in Ireland
• Market Houses in Ireland

References

External links

• www.collon.ie at the Wayback Machine (archived 21 July 2011)

На других языках

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- [en] Collon

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[ru] Коллон (деревня)

Коллон[2] (англ. Collon; ирл. Collann) — деревня в Ирландии, находится в графстве Лаут (провинция Ленстер). В деревне расположено цистерцианское аббатство Нью-Меллифонт. Также здесь была русская языковая школа, основанная русскими эмигрантами в 1920-е годы. На кладбище при церкви Коллона имеются русские захоронения с православными крестами.

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