Knock, Murderer, Knock!
Knock, Murderer, Knock! is a Golden Age murder mystery novel written in 1938 by Olive Shimwell using the pseudo name Harriet Rutland. Shinwell, born in 1901, only daughter of [...]
Cloch Philib – Cloughphilip – Stone House of Philip
Cloghphilip, Cloch Philib, is a townland in the District Election Division of Mathey in the Muskerry region of Cork, it consists of approx. five hundred and forty-five acres of [...]
Inis Cártha Abú!
In the year 1886 the Cork County Board of the Gaelic Athletic Association was formed and in that same year Inniscarra GAA club was also founded. A local Inniscarra [...]
Let there be light!
A newspaper article, published in the Cork Daily Herald on 3rd of December 1891, describes in detail the newly installed system of electrical power at St Ann’s Hill Hydropathic [...]
Matehy Cemetery Records 1904-1980
Matehy, Magh Teicheadh, cemetery is located opposite St. Joseph's Roman Catholic Church in the small village of Matehy; the perimeter of the cemetery is defined by a large stone [...]
Muskerry Golf Club’s One Hundred and Fifteenth Birthday
Saturday the 4th of May 1907 was the date that two major events were officially opened in Ireland. In Dublin, the Irish International Exhibition was opened with much fanfare [...]
A scandalous divorce
Another divorce scandal made the papers in Ireland during 1905, four years before Shenstone Bishop divorced his wife. And again, St. Ann's Hill Hydro played a central role [...]
Max Altdorfer – Father & Son
Maximilian Erneste Altdorfer was born in 1891 in St Ann’s Hill Hydro, son of Dr. Max Altdorfer and Mrs Auguste Altdorfer. His father was one of the resident physicians [...]
Tower abú!
For the first time since 2014 Cork are in an All-Ireland Senior men's hurling final, and are waiting since 2005 for a win. And for the first time since [...]
Burnt Mills, Shournagh Line
On the road from Blarney to Donoughmore, in the Parish of Cloghroe, Co. Cork, there is a place called "Burnt Mills". It is so called because about a hundred [...]