JONESBOROUGH, a parish, in the barony of Upper Orior, county of Armagh, and province of Ulster, 4½ miles (S.W.) from Newry, adjoining the post-town of Flurry-bridge, and containing 1598 inhabitants, of which number, 174 are in the village.  According to the Ordnance survey it comprises 2185¾ statue acres, including about 700 acres of bog and mountain.  Clay-slate and good granite for building are obtained here.  The village, which comprises 35 houses, is situated in a mountain pass at the foot of two lefty hills close to the confines of Louth, and was burnt in 1798.  Here is a good inn; and a dispensary has been established, which is supported in the usual way.  It has much traffic with Newry and Dundalk; and cattle fairs are held on June 4th, Aug. 15th, Oct. 21st, and Dec. 3rd.  Near the village is Jonesborough House, the residence of Hamilton Skelton, Esq.; and the glebe-house, of the Rev. Robert Henry.  Here were formerly barracks for the accommodation of a troop of infantry, but the building has been converted into a private residence.  The parish was formed out of that of Killevy, or Ballymore, in 1760, and endowed with tithes and glebe, in 1789, by Primate Robinson.  It is a rectory, in the diocese of Armagh, and in the patronage of the Lord-Primate; the tithes amount to £155.  There is a glebe-house, which was built by aid of a gift of £450 and a loan of £80, in 1816, from the late Board of First Fruits, and has a glebe of 6a. 3r. 11p.  The church is a plain neat building, erected in 1772, consecrated in 1785, and repaired in 1812 by a gift of £400 from the same Board.  In the R.C. divisions it forms part of the union or district of Faughart, and has a large handsome chapel in the village.  About 100 children are educated in two private schools.  A little south of the village stands an upright single stone, with an illegible inscription; and not far distant are the ruins of Moyrath castle, erected in the 17th century to defend the mountain pass.
Topographical Dictionary of Ireland by Samuel Lewis, 1837

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