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 [...]
"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 [...]
99 year old letter from America
Not quite the standard of hotel that you associate with people from Tower village at the turn of the 1900's but thanks to a letter from ninety-nine years ago [...]
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 [...]