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 [...]
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 [...]
Model Village Tower
I was driving down the Kerry Road recently and was taken aback to see one of those huge, enormous cranes rising high and towering above all the houses in the [...]
The Ambrose Family of Gurth, Vicarstown and Coolflugh, Tower
My grandmother Kit Cogan was born Kathleen Ambrose on 30th May 1936 in Killeen, Vicarstown, the youngest child of Michael Ambrose, from Gurth, and Nora (née Kelleher), from Knocknagoun, Rylane. [...]
All the Brigids
1901 and 1911 Brigids In honor of St Brigid's Day, 1st Feb 2020, I have listed all the Brigids recorded in both the 1901 and 1911 census in both Blarney [...]
History as long as the bar counter
My curiousity was piqued recently when I saw The Strand bar at Vicarstown Cross, won the award for Best Local Pub in the Irish Pub Awards 2019. https://twitter.com/vfipubs/status/1173599970638946307 It [...]
"Thanks Hun, Penneys"
We have all done it, replied to a compliment on an item of clothing we are wearing with “Thanks Hun, Penneys”. It is an accepted way to accept a compliment [...]
School Days
Thursday of last week, 27th June 2019, was without a doubt the best start to the holiday season for primary schools - bright blue skies, high temperatures, a shining sun [...]
Elijah Sewell
When I first started to collect the census information for the Tower area a number of years ago I made a list of people and names that caught my attention, [...]