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'''Collon''' ({{Irish place name|Collann}})<ref>{{cite web|url = https://www.logainm.ie/1412201.aspx | publisher = Irish Placenames Commission | website = logainm.ie | title = Collann / Collon | accessdate = 7 February 2020}}</ref> is a village and ] in the south west corner of ], Ireland, on the ] ]. The village is home to the ] Abbey of New Mellifont, and to Collon House, ancestral home of the Foster family. '''Collon''' ({{Irish place name|Collann}})<ref>{{cite web|url = https://www.logainm.ie/1412201.aspx | publisher = Irish Placenames Commission | website = logainm.ie | title = Collann / Collon | accessdate = 7 February 2020}}</ref> is a village and ] in the south west corner of ], Ireland, on the ] ]. The village is home to the ] Abbey of New Mellifont, and to Collon House, the ancestral home of the Foster family. The village is in a ] of the same name.<ref>{{cite web|url = https://www.logainm.ie/en/1697 | publisher = Irish Placenames Commission | website = logainm.ie | title = Collann / Collon (civil parish) | access-date = 12 April 2024}}</ref>


==History of Collon== ==History==
The ] parish church at the lower end was built in 1810 to a design by ] 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. ] ] who was born in the village. The church has been described as "dramatic and atmospheric" and hosted the 2008 Ardee Baroque Festival.<ref>Irish Ties, 20 October 2008, page14, article by Eileen Battersby</ref> The ] parish church at the lower end was built in 1810 to a design by ] 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. ] ] who was born in the village. The church has been described as "dramatic and atmospheric" and hosted the 2008 Ardee Baroque Festival.<ref>Irish Ties, 20 October 2008, page14, article by Eileen Battersby</ref>


The Foster Family first settled in Dunleer in County Louth in 1660 until they moved into their estate in the heart of Collon in 1744, which can still be seen today.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Foster, John {{!}} Dictionary of Irish Biography |url=https://www.dib.ie/biography/foster-john-a3339 |access-date=2022-12-01 |website=www.dib.ie |language=en}}</ref> At the time the family estate was our 6,000 acres. The Foster family, who came to Ireland from ] in the seventeenth century, were for several generations the dominant influence in Dunleer, which they represented in the ]. Collon House, the family seat was built about 1740 by ], ], and extended in the 1770s by his son ], the celebrated "Speaker Foster". During the middle of the eighteenth century Anthony Foster followed by John Foster had developed a new estate in the hills of Collon. For John's public/ work image as a politician and economic expert it was crucial for his estate to be planned out as a 'model village'. New roads were developed going up through the hills in order to help form new farmland. The village of Collon was planned around the big house and land surrounding it. This landscape that the Fosters had helped develop around Collon is still how the village is laid out today.<ref name=atl>{{Cite book |url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/767650667 |title=Atlas of the Irish rural landscape |date=2011 |publisher=Cork University Press |others=F. H. A. Aalen, Kevin Whelan, Matthew Stout |isbn=978-1-85918-459-2 |edition=Rev. and expanded 2nd |location=Cork |oclc=767650667}}</ref>Anthony Foster made his attributions to the land by improving fertility, drainage and overall agricultural improvements to the land and John Foster made his attributions to the land by beginning the linen industry which created huge success and employement in the village and he also helped promote Protestant dwellers to live here.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Cross Border Archives Project - Online Exhibitions - Landowners of County Louth |url=https://www.louthnewryarchives.ie/online-exhibitions/landowners-county-louth/foster_massereene.shtml |access-date=2022-11-30 |website=www.louthnewryarchives.ie}}</ref> The Foster Family first settled in Dunleer in County Louth in 1660 until they moved into their estate in the heart of Collon in 1744, which can still be seen today.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Foster, John {{!}} Dictionary of Irish Biography |url=https://www.dib.ie/biography/foster-john-a3339 |access-date=2022-12-01 |website=www.dib.ie |language=en}}</ref> At the time the family estate was our 6,000 acres. The Foster family, who came to Ireland from ] in the seventeenth century, were for several generations the dominant influence in Dunleer, which they represented in the ]. Collon House, the family seat was built about 1740 by ], ], and extended in the 1770s by his son ], the celebrated "Speaker Foster". During the middle of the eighteenth century, Anthony Foster followed by John Foster developed a new estate in the hills of Collon. For John's public/ work image as a politician and economic expert it was crucial for his estate to be planned out as a 'model village'. New roads were developed going up through the hills in order to help form new farmland.


The village of Collon was planned around the big house and land surrounding it. This landscape that the Fosters had helped develop around Collon is still how the village is laid out today.<ref name="atl">{{Cite book |url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/767650667 |title=Atlas of the Irish rural landscape |date=2011 |publisher=Cork University Press |others=F. H. A. Aalen, Kevin Whelan, Matthew Stout |isbn=978-1-85918-459-2 |edition=Rev. and expanded 2nd |location=Cork |oclc=767650667}}</ref> Anthony Foster made his attributions to the land by improving fertility, drainage and overall agricultural improvements to the land and John Foster made his attributions to the land by beginning the linen industry which created huge success and employment in the village and he also helped promote Protestant dwellers to live here.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Cross Border Archives Project - Online Exhibitions - Landowners of County Louth |url=https://www.louthnewryarchives.ie/online-exhibitions/landowners-county-louth/foster_massereene.shtml |access-date=2022-11-30 |website=www.louthnewryarchives.ie}}</ref>
⚫ 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.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Louth County Council |title=Rental and Accounts of the Collon Estate, 1779 - 1782 |url=https://www.louthcoco.ie/en/services/archives/archive_collections/archives_relating_to_development_of_county_louth/rental-and-accounts-of-the-collon-estate.pdf |website=Louth County Archives Service |access-date=1 December 2021}}</ref>The northern line weavers helped attribute to the Collon linen industry.<ref name=atl/> The that remains standing today, dates back to the 1860 linen mill located on the west side of School Lane, Collon (Coordinates – 300184, 281694).<ref>{{cite web |last1=National Inventory of Architectural Heritage |title=School Lane, COLLON, Collon, LOUTH |url=https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/buildings-search/building/13828024/school-lane-collon-collon-louth |website=National Inventory of Architectural Heritage |access-date=1 December 2021}}</ref> South of Collon, where the linen factory was located, was known as the Bleach Green. Gillian Darley wrote in 'Villages of Vision' that Collon has "two intersecting streets around Foster's cotton manufactory: when Lewis' Guide was compiled the linen industry had collapsed, the cotton was still continuing" .<ref>{{Cite book |last=Darley |first=Gillian |url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1921555 |title=Villages of vision |date=1975 |publisher=Architectural Press |isbn=0-85139-705-0 |location=London |oclc=1921555}}</ref> Employees carried out spinning and weaving, where often at times the bleaching of linen could take up to forty acres.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Duchas.ie |title=Collon and its Neighbourhood |journal=The School's Collection |volume=0677 |pages=01–11 |url=https://www.duchas.ie/en/cbes/5008875/4962918 |access-date=6 December 2021}}</ref> The Foster family brought in huge amounts of workers to the mills and linen factories in Collon, but most especially Protestant dwelers due to their English descent.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Collon House |url=https://theirishaesthete.com/tag/collon-house/ |access-date=2022-12-01 |website=The Irish Aesthete |language=en-US}}</ref> 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.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Duchas.ie |title=Collon and its Neighbourhood |journal=The School's Collection |volume=0677 |pages=01–011 |url=https://www.duchas.ie/en/cbes/5008875/4962918 |access-date=6 December 2021}}</ref> Currently standing in Collon is a freestanding chimney that has been dated back to 1860 that was used for the local linen mill. The chimney is a square plan with red brick English bond shaft, located on the west side of the main road. This chimney is a great reminder to the local people of the industrial history this village has. The chimney would have been surrounded by mills and people constantly at work, creating an economic flow into the village but now it stands alone.<ref>{{Cite web |last=FUSIO |title=School Lane, COLLON, Collon, LOUTH |url=https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/buildings-search/building/13828024/school-lane-collon-collon-louth |access-date=2022-12-01 |website=Buildings of Ireland |language=en-US}}</ref>


⚫ 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.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Louth County Council |title=Rental and Accounts of the Collon Estate, 1779–1782 |url=https://www.louthcoco.ie/en/services/archives/archive_collections/archives_relating_to_development_of_county_louth/rental-and-accounts-of-the-collon-estate.pdf |website=Louth County Archives Service |access-date=1 December 2021}}</ref> The northern line weavers helped attribute to the Collon linen industry.<ref name="atl" /> 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).<ref>{{cite web |last1=National Inventory of Architectural Heritage |title=School Lane, COLLON, Collon, LOUTH |url=https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/buildings-search/building/13828024/school-lane-collon-collon-louth |website=National Inventory of Architectural Heritage |access-date=1 December 2021}}</ref> South of Collon, where the linen factory was located, was known as the Bleach Green. Gillian Darley wrote in 'Villages of Vision' that Collon has "two intersecting streets around Foster's cotton manufactory: when Lewis' Guide was compiled the linen industry had collapsed, the cotton was still continuing".<ref>{{Cite book |last=Darley |first=Gillian |url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1921555 |title=Villages of vision |date=1975 |publisher=Architectural Press |isbn=0-85139-705-0 |location=London |oclc=1921555}}</ref> Employees carried out spinning and weaving, where often at times the bleaching of linen could take up to forty acres.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Duchas.ie |title=Collon and its Neighbourhood |journal=The School's Collection |volume=0677 |pages=01–11 |url=https://www.duchas.ie/en/cbes/5008875/4962918 |access-date=6 December 2021}}</ref>
⚫ In the 1840, Collon was described as “a remarkably neat” town and credit was given to its proprietors the Fosters.<ref name="auto">{{cite journal |last1=Geraghty |first1=P. J. |title=Urban Improvement and the Erection of Municipal Buildings in County Louth during the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries |journal=Journal of the County Louth Archaeological and Historical Society |date=1995 |volume=23 |issue=3 |pages=302–304 |doi=10.2307/27729775 |jstor=27729775 |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/pdf/27729775.pdf |access-date=1 December 2021}}</ref> 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 brought in huge amounts of workers to the mills and linen factories in Collon, but most especially Protestant dwellers due to their English descent.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Collon House |url=https://theirishaesthete.com/tag/collon-house/ |access-date=2022-12-01 |website=The Irish Aesthete |language=en-US}}</ref> 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.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Duchas.ie |title=Collon and its Neighbourhood |journal=The School's Collection |volume=0677 |pages=01–011 |url=https://www.duchas.ie/en/cbes/5008875/4962918 |access-date=6 December 2021}}</ref> Currently standing in Collon is a freestanding chimney that has been dated back to 1860 that was used for the local linen mill. The chimney is a square plan with red brick English bond shaft, located on the west side of the main road. This chimney is a great reminder to the local people of the industrial history this village has. The chimney would have been surrounded by mills and people constantly at work, creating an economic flow into the village but now it stands alone.<ref>{{Cite web |last= |title=School Lane, COLLON, Collon, LOUTH |url=https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/buildings-search/building/13828024/school-lane-collon-collon-louth |access-date=2022-12-01 |website=Buildings of Ireland |language=en-US}}</ref>
⚫ The Foster family were political, therefore the market-house was used to register land tenants to vote in the parliamentary elections.<ref name="auto"/> 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.


⚫ In 1840, Collon was described as “a remarkably neat” town and credit was given to its proprietors the Fosters.<ref name="auto">{{cite journal |last1=Geraghty |first1=P. J. |title=Urban Improvement and the Erection of Municipal Buildings in County Louth during the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries |journal=Journal of the County Louth Archaeological and Historical Society |date=1995 |volume=23 |issue=3 |pages=302–304 |doi=10.2307/27729775 |jstor=27729775 |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/pdf/27729775.pdf |access-date=1 December 2021}}</ref> 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 in urban projects and improvements such as these market houses and expect in return tenants would make their improvements to their own properties, this allowed Collon to grow more attractive to new tenants.
⚫ At one point there was a Russian language school in the village, which was founded by White Russian emigres, ] 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|date=February 2020}}

⚫ The Foster family were political, therefore the market house was used to register land tenants to vote in the parliamentary elections.<ref name="auto"/> 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, ] and his wife.<ref>{{cite news |last1=McNally |first1=Franks |title=From Leningrad to Louth – Frank McNally on a little piece of Ireland that is forever Russia |url=https://www.irishtimes.com/opinion/from-leningrad-to-louth-frank-mcnally-on-a-little-piece-of-ireland-that-is-forever-russia-1.4269963 |access-date=13 June 2024 |publisher=The Irish Times |date=3 June 2020}}</ref> It is rumoured that the British spies Philby, Burgess and Maclean visited the school as part of their Russian language training.{{citation needed|date=February 2020}}


Collon is home to an ] where animals are homed until suitable accommodation is found.{{citation needed|date=November 2021}} Collon is home to an ] where animals are homed until suitable accommodation is found.{{citation needed|date=November 2021}}
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== Development == == Development ==
The early developments of Collon can be found on the southside of the village. Nowadays the village is expanding out towards the East and the N2, this is where the majority of the current housing developments are being built. Collon really expanded in the Industrial Revolution mostly due to the linen industry and mills created by James Foster, this was when the model village was created. This was developed around the villages crossroads. Pushed back from the main street the model village was set out to be green and an open air market. Considerably back in the 1990s and 2000s during the Celtic Tiger period Collon gained huge development and people to the area. In recent years development has been cut short due to huge areas of free land not being able to be used for developments as they are designated as OpenSpace, home to the river Mattock and many matures trees.<ref>{{Cite web |last=County Council |first=Louth |title=Collon |url=https://www.louthcoco.ie/en/publications/development-plans/louth-county-development-plan-2021-2027/8-collon-optimised.pdf}}</ref> The early developments of Collon can be found on the south side of the village. Nowadays the village is expanding out towards the East and the N2, this is where the majority of the current housing developments are being built. Collon really expanded in the Industrial Revolution mostly due to the linen industry and mills created by James Foster, this was when the model village was created. This was developed around the village's crossroads. Pushed back from the main street the model village was set out to be green and an open-air market. Considerably back in the 1990s and 2000s during the Celtic Tiger period, Collon gained huge development and people to the area. In recent years development has been cut short due to huge areas of free land not being able to be used for developments as they are designated as OpenSpace, home to the river Mattock and many mature trees.<ref>{{Cite web |last=County Council |first=Louth |title=Collon |url=https://www.louthcoco.ie/en/publications/development-plans/louth-county-development-plan-2021-2027/8-collon-optimised.pdf}}</ref>
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==Sport== ==Sport==
], a local ] club, were ] in 2002, 2004, 2009 and 2010. ], a local ] club, were ] 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.<ref>{{cite web| url = http://talkofthetown.ie/mattock-rangershunterstown-roversglen-emmets-combination-clinch-louth-u-21-title/| url-status = dead| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20160708102211/http://talkofthetown.ie/mattock-rangershunterstown-roversglen-emmets-combination-clinch-louth-u-21-title/| archive-date = 2016-07-08| title = Mattock Rangers/Hunterstown Rovers/Glen Emmets combination clinch Louth U-21 title {{!}} Talk of the Town}} </ref> In 2019, the club won the ].<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.irishexaminer.com/breakingnews/sport/gaa/mattock-rangers-defeat-kilkenny-kingpins-in-leinster-final-969163.html|title=Mattock Rangers defeat Kilkenny kingpins in Leinster final |accessdate=11 December 2019 |work=] |publisher= |date=8 December 2019}}</ref> 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.<ref>{{cite web| url = http://talkofthetown.ie/mattock-rangershunterstown-roversglen-emmets-combination-clinch-louth-u-21-title/| url-status = dead| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20160708102211/http://talkofthetown.ie/mattock-rangershunterstown-roversglen-emmets-combination-clinch-louth-u-21-title/| archive-date = 2016-07-08| title = Mattock Rangers/Hunterstown Rovers/Glen Emmets combination clinch Louth U-21 title {{!}} Talk of the Town}}</ref> In 2019, the club won the ].<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.irishexaminer.com/breakingnews/sport/gaa/mattock-rangers-defeat-kilkenny-kingpins-in-leinster-final-969163.html|title=Mattock Rangers defeat Kilkenny kingpins in Leinster final |accessdate=11 December 2019 |work=] |publisher= |date=8 December 2019}}</ref>

There is a ] track, WhiteRiver Karting, on the ] at Mollyrue in Collon townland.<ref>{{citation | publisher = Eircode Finder | work = finder.eircode.ie | title = Whiteriver Park Kart Racing Circuit, Mollyrue, Collon, Co. Louth }}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url = https://whiteriver.ie/ | website = whiteriver.ie | title = WhiteRiver Park Karting | quote = Exit 12, M1 Motorway, Dunleer Road, Collon, Co Louth | accessdate = 28 May 2023 }}</ref>


==See also== ==See also==
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Village in County Louth, Ireland For other uses, see Collon (disambiguation).

Village in Leinster, Ireland
Collon Collann
Village
The Foster homestead at CollonThe Foster homestead at Collon
Collon is located in IrelandCollonCollonLocation in Ireland
Coordinates: 53°46′43″N 6°28′52″W / 53.77870°N 6.48116°W / 53.77870; -6.48116
CountryIreland
ProvinceLeinster
CountyCounty Louth
Area
 • Total17.69 km (6.83 sq mi)
Elevation128 m (420 ft)
Population896
Time zoneUTC+0 (WET)
 • Summer (DST)UTC-1 (IST (WEST))
Irish Grid ReferenceO001820

Collon (Irish: Collann) 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, the ancestral home of the Foster family. The village is in a civil parish of the same name.

History

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.

The Foster Family first settled in Dunleer in County Louth in 1660 until they moved into their estate in the heart of Collon in 1744, which can still be seen today. At the time the family estate was our 6,000 acres. 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". During the middle of the eighteenth century, Anthony Foster followed by John Foster developed a new estate in the hills of Collon. For John's public/ work image as a politician and economic expert it was crucial for his estate to be planned out as a 'model village'. New roads were developed going up through the hills in order to help form new farmland.

The village of Collon was planned around the big house and land surrounding it. This landscape that the Fosters had helped develop around Collon is still how the village is laid out today. Anthony Foster made his attributions to the land by improving fertility, drainage and overall agricultural improvements to the land and John Foster made his attributions to the land by beginning the linen industry which created huge success and employment in the village and he also helped promote Protestant dwellers to live here.

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. The northern line weavers helped attribute to the Collon linen industry. 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). South of Collon, where the linen factory was located, was known as the Bleach Green. Gillian Darley wrote in 'Villages of Vision' that Collon has "two intersecting streets around Foster's cotton manufactory: when Lewis' Guide was compiled the linen industry had collapsed, the cotton was still continuing". Employees carried out spinning and weaving, where often at times the bleaching of linen could take up to forty acres.

The Foster family brought in huge amounts of workers to the mills and linen factories in Collon, but most especially Protestant dwellers due to their English descent. 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. Currently standing in Collon is a freestanding chimney that has been dated back to 1860 that was used for the local linen mill. The chimney is a square plan with red brick English bond shaft, located on the west side of the main road. This chimney is a great reminder to the local people of the industrial history this village has. The chimney would have been surrounded by mills and people constantly at work, creating an economic flow into the village but now it stands alone.

In 1840, Collon was described as “a remarkably neat” town and credit was given to its proprietors the Fosters. 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 in urban projects and improvements such as these market houses and expect in return tenants would make their improvements to their own properties, this allowed 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. 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.

Collon is home to an animal sanctuary where animals are homed until suitable accommodation is found.

The village is home to three longstanding public houses; Matthews Bar (est. 1896), Watters Bar (est. 1954) & Donegans Pub.

Development

The early developments of Collon can be found on the south side of the village. Nowadays the village is expanding out towards the East and the N2, this is where the majority of the current housing developments are being built. Collon really expanded in the Industrial Revolution mostly due to the linen industry and mills created by James Foster, this was when the model village was created. This was developed around the village's crossroads. Pushed back from the main street the model village was set out to be green and an open-air market. Considerably back in the 1990s and 2000s during the Celtic Tiger period, Collon gained huge development and people to the area. In recent years development has been cut short due to huge areas of free land not being able to be used for developments as they are designated as OpenSpace, home to the river Mattock and many mature trees.

The is an image of Collon House located just off Drogheda street at the crossroads in Collon, County Louth on a sunny day. Green hedges surround the house making it more private from the streets.
Collon House on Drogheda Street, at the crossroads

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. In 2019, the club won the Leinster Intermediate Club Football Championship.

There is a karting track, WhiteRiver Karting, on the R169 (Dunleer) road at Mollyrue in Collon townland.

See also

References

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  17. McNally, Franks (3 June 2020). "From Leningrad to Louth – Frank McNally on a little piece of Ireland that is forever Russia". The Irish Times. Retrieved 13 June 2024.
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  19. "Mattock Rangers/Hunterstown Rovers/Glen Emmets combination clinch Louth U-21 title | Talk of the Town". Archived from the original on 8 July 2016.
  20. "Mattock Rangers defeat Kilkenny kingpins in Leinster final". Irish Examiner. 8 December 2019. Retrieved 11 December 2019.
  21. "Whiteriver Park Kart Racing Circuit, Mollyrue, Collon, Co. Louth", finder.eircode.ie, Eircode Finder
  22. "WhiteRiver Park Karting". whiteriver.ie. Retrieved 28 May 2023. Exit 12, M1 Motorway, Dunleer Road, Collon, Co Louth

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