History > Drumaroad Post Office
Drumaroad’s first post office was established on top of
Drumaroad Hill in 1905. The post office was run as a sub office
supposedly by the Mc Keown family, and is listed as a registered
sub office in the Royal Mail Post Office Guide 1905.
The Ordnance Survey Map in 1930
lists Drumaroad post office as situated on the Scrib Road,
near the crossroads at the bottom of Chapel Lane. Although
the photograph establishes that there was a sub-post office
on the top of Drumaroad Hill at the start of the twentieth
century, prior to Drumaroad, mail was delivered to neighbouring
Drumnaquoile sub post office, from Newry through Castlewellan
post office, also to Dunmore sub post office through Ballynahinch
post office, and to Loughinisland sub-post-office from Newry
through Clough post office. The historian George Henry Bassett
discovered that Drumnaquoile operated a sub-post office in
1886.
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