Where was 'Jacob's Ladder' in New Abbey?

From the treasure trove of newspaper clippings kept by the late Nicky Myers of Main Street, here's a picture of Ken Urquhart, then owner of New Abbey Stud, riding Prince of Fortune at a Point to Point in Two-Mile-House in 1953, writes Brian Byrne.

For those us who remember Ken Urquhart well, he's very recognisable and it is a well-taken photograph of a man very much at home on a horse at speed.

Annotations on the clippings often had the date and in some cases naming people who weren't so in captions. In this case, the note refers to the rider having "cut down all the trees at 'Jacob's Ladder', they're lying in the river and he won't let anyone take them".

I'm not familiar with where exactly 'Jacob's Ladder' is, though it clearly must be a section of the New Abbey lands bordering the Liffey. It doesn't appear on any of the Ordnance Survey maps from as far back as 1833, so must be very much a local name. If anyone knows, we'd love to hear.


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