missing gates

WE NEED YOUR HELP

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Have you any photographs of these white gate posts?

A number of years ago the white gates at Seskinore Forest (Omagh Road entrance) went missing. We are calling on the community to please send through any photos that they might have when these gates where still in place. You can sent through the pictures on FB or drop them off at an agreed collection point. (𝘈𝘭𝘭 𝘱𝘩𝘰𝘡𝘰𝘨𝘳𝘒𝘱𝘩𝘴 𝘸π˜ͺ𝘭𝘭 𝘣𝘦 𝘭𝘰𝘰𝘬𝘦π˜₯ 𝘒𝘧𝘡𝘦𝘳 𝘀𝘒𝘳𝘦𝘧𝘢𝘭𝘭𝘺, 𝘀𝘰𝘱π˜ͺ𝘦π˜₯ 𝘒𝘯π˜₯ 𝘳𝘦𝘡𝘢𝘳𝘯𝘦π˜₯ 𝘡𝘰 𝘡𝘩𝘦π˜ͺ𝘳 𝘰𝘸𝘯𝘦𝘳)

Thank you,

Seskinore Rural Community Group

A Specials

USC ‘A’ SPECIAL MOTOR PLATOON 1920’s

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Seskinore Lodge was an Irish stately home located within the McClintock family estate close to the sleepy village of Seskinore.

Colonel John “Jack” McClintock CBE, JP, DL served in the Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers from the late 1800s to the end of world war one.

After his retirement from the army he was heavily involved with the formation and organisation of the Ulster Special Constabulary in Tyrone and was appointed County Commandant.

Within the old picture {placed on the location where the house stood} believed to be from 1920 one can see a mobile patrol of USC “A” Specials outside the house, the Constabulary had an office on the first floor of the house aswell as a guard room.

The house is sadly long gone, demolished in the 1950s. The turning circle can still be seen where the front of the house faced onto a large lawn.