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VICTORIA MASONIC LODGE No. 212
CONSTITUTED 27 APRIL 1897 History of Victoria Lodge No. 212 The warrant of Lodge No. 212, originally issued on 2nd August 1750 to Brethren at Labour in Kinsale County Cork. The original Brethren may have been military Gentlemen as the Warrant was subsequently "removed" to The Royal Downshire Militia on 10th January 1795 and the Warrant cancelled on 7th October 1813. Lodge 428 of Glenavy, County Antrim exchanged their own Warrant for the Warrant of Lodge No. 212 on the 4th June 1818 and the Warrant was subsequently cancelled on 6th February 1845. The Warrant was then issued to Brethren at Castletown on the Isle of Man on the 8th June 1857 and was known as the "Lodge of Mona". The Brethren Laboured for some 3 years until 6th December 1888 when the warrant was "sent in". In 1897 Brethren in Dundalk petitioned Grand Lodge to Constitute a new Craft Lodge and permission having been granted the Warrant of Lodge No. 212 re-issued on 8th march 1897 and the Lodge was Constituted and Dedicated "Victoria Lodge No. 212" on 17th April 1897 to mark the occasion of Queen Victoria's Diamond Lubilee in 1897.
HRH Queen Victoria
Lodge 212
was named "Victoria"
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