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 [...]
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 [...]
"Is there anybody there?"
Georgiana Houghton (British painter) 1814 - 1884 The Eye of the Lord, 1874 watercolour and gouache on paper on board 25.3 x 35.6 cm (9.96 x 14.02 in.) Victorian Spiritualists [...]
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 [...]
School Teachers……Part 1
In March 1905 there was a census taken of all national school teachers on the island of Ireland, these details are available on the National Archives website here, this list [...]
Out, out , out – houses, buildings and sheds
One of the more interesting aspects of the 1901 and 1911 census returns is the additional information that it gives us about the physical environment that our ancestors lived in [...]
International Nurses' Day 2020
The twelfth of May is celebrated as International Nurses Day, the date was chosen in honor of Florence Nightingale, who was born on 12th May 1820. And to commemorate this [...]
Hydro Houses
I have complied a list of the houses listed in the Directories between 1875 and 1940 and the head of the household on those dates. It makes for some interesting [...]