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 [...]
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, 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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]