Close by is the grounds that once was the demesne of Drumsill House owned in the past by Joshua McGeough,. There are the remains of a fine lime avenue for a house built before 1835. Features included some parkland trees, a walled garden and a gate lodge. Joshua McGeough, is described in a document now found in the MacGeough Bonds Papers as "an Old Gentleman of the County of Armagh who had by laudable industry, acquired a small Real Estate, and a considerable personal fortune worth in the whole about £100,000." Joshua was born about 1683. He married Anne Graham about 1700, and they had six children, the oldest of which was William. Joshua lived principally on his estate at Drumsill; but in the 1740's he foreclosed the mortgage from a family named Nicholson on a property known as Derryclaw.
Joshua died in 1756, and the house and estate at Drumsill passed to William. The Derryclaw estate (the Argory, outside Moy) went to his youngest son, Samuel. William had married Elizabeth Bond, daughter and heiress of Walter Bond of Bondville, County Armagh. It is not known if there were any children of this marriage. William later married a Miss Boyd by whom he had a son, Joshua. William died in 1791. Joshua, son of William, bought the Derryclaw estate in 1779, and also rebuilt the house at Drumsill between 1786 and 1788. Joshua added wings to Drumsill House in 1805-6. Joshua married Susan Pierce before 1769. They had one son, John, born about 1769. After Joshua and Susan divorced, Joshua married a second time to Anne (or Elizabeth) Johnstone. They had five children, William, Walter, Mary Ann, Isabella and Eliza. Upon his death on 3 September1817, Drumsill was left to his second son, Walter, and Walter's three sisters. He left only 400 pounds to William, his first son. Joshua's will stipulated, however, that after Walter married, he could not take possession of Drumsill until at least two of his sisters had married. This was clarified in the third Codicil to the will. Although one died [Isabella, on 8 November 1817], the remaining sisters never married (Mary Ann died 28 Mar 1857 at the age of 71). The two remaining sisters shared the house; apparently with an uneasy truce. At one time, the two halves of the front double door were painted different colours with a line painted down the middle of the house to separate the living quarters of the two sisters and their servants. Resigned to this, Walter lived at the Derryclaw estate, where he built a house, the Argory. Although the will did not stipulate it, Joshua also left a legacy of 1000 pounds to his son by Susan Pierce, John Goffe, who had gone to America in 1801. The story of the house goes on and on but I will not bore you any further.
The cache is a 120 mm cylinder and parking is beside the cache but do pull in off the road before the corner.