#CATJRF: Ownership of assets is tempered by the extent to which you have control…
Ballybot House is one of the earliest examples of Community Asset Transfer in Northern Ireland. It’s an old warehouse type building in the centre of Newry in an area that was once called Poor Town… the name is an anglicisation from the historic dialect of the Irish spoken in the south Armagh area of Baille Bocht… Having an asset changes your relationship with the wider community. The responsibilities that come with it, not least in the case of Ballybot the …