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Introduction to South Ulster by Jack Storey The road East from Enniskillen reaches Fivemiletown and Clogher where St. Macartan's Church of Ireland Cathedral stands overlooking the town. Storys have several graves in the Cathedral Graveyard and there have been Storys here since the late 1600s. Corick House, just on the Belfast side of Clogher, was the ancient home of the Storys from Bingfield, near Hexham, Northumberland since the late 1600s. The last Story left it in the 1970s. At one time the Corick Storys owned land almost as far as Tydavnet in County Monaghan - a townland called Ballywholan. The Parish of Clogher includes "Clogher Demesne", "Clogher Cathedral" (St. Macartan's) & Carryclogher Townland. A Story owned a small Hotel in Fivemiletown in the 1800s. If you turn South East from Clogher you will cross the Monaghan Border near Tydavnet another ancient Monastic site and near to St. Dympna's Well. As you enter Tydavnet and feel like stopping at the old Church you may find some names in the graveyard which do not sound like Catholic names - this is because Tydavnet was Anglican for a period before reverting back to Catholic. There are Storeys buried beside their Catholic neighbours in Tydavnet Old Cemetery, just as are Forsters and Cootes. A histoic silver mace was discovered at Tydavnet Church and is now displayed in the National Museum in Dublin. I hope my little tour through South Ulster has awakened a desire to explore this fascinating part of Ulster with its variety of history unsurpassed by any other area in Ireland. The stubborn nature of the people who live here is part of the reason for its prosperity. South Ulster farming people refused to surrender to the weather, the poor land or the ravages of war for over four hundred years. 1  2