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Mr Foerster had always had a liking for Ireland and the sport to be had there, and he left Abergavenny to become the Agent of the Beltrim Castle estate in Tyrone. He later bought the estate and developed it into a sporting hotel, until advancing age compelled him to sell up and retire to a smaller place in Omagh. His long and varied life ended with his death in Co. Fermanagh on June 6th 1947. Note: The above article is based on cuttings from the following periodicals; TITBITS. Issue dated January 22nd 1898 THE IMPARTIAL REPORTER & FARMERS JOURNAL. Dated June 19th 1947. THE TYRONE CONSTITUTION. Dated June 20th 1947. Letter to the Editor 11, Enville Road, Newport, Gwent. NP9 5AE. Dear Mrs Pearson, Listening to lecture by Mr. D.P.M. Michael on the "Mapping of Monmouthshire" I remembered a mention of Quenock Chapel by Mr. Reg. Nichols in Gwent Local History No.56 which inspired letters in No.57 & No.58. There was much surmise about the real spelling of the name & the position of the Chapel. Indeed it may be, as Mrs. Kennerley suggested, the Chapel of St. Guynocke in the parish of St. Cadocs, Caerleon. On the other hand on maps by Saxton 1577, Speed in 1610 & right up to Emanuel & Thomas Bowen in 1767, Quenock Chapel appears to the north of Pen-twyn Farm which is north of ancient Penrhos Farm. Penrhos is north east of Caerleon & east of the Avon Llwyd. I cannot find Quenock marked on maps after 1767 but there are sites of two chapels marked on a fairly modern Caerleon O.S. map. (O.S.39, 1.25,000, First series) One site is at Penrhos & the other north of Pen-twyn near the Gatlas lane. Could it be that Quenock Chapel was on the most northerly of these sites? JOAN JONES.