by andrew | Sep 30, 2022 | Pill Placename, River Lore
One of our favourite boat trips is up the Campile Pill from where we can call to Dunbrody Abbey, visit the village itself or explore the neighbourhood and its interesting heritage. Although my favourite pastime is in exploring the fishing heritage of the area,...
by andrew | Sep 27, 2022 | Emigration, Project Updates, River Lore, Waterford History, Waterford Seafarers
For this years Imagine Arts festival I am doing two talks – both in Jordans on the Quay and both on the theme of Waterford Maritime History. The first is “In the Great Westerns Wake” – a reminisce of the ship that traded from the early 1930s to...
by andrew | Sep 26, 2022 | Project Updates, River Lore
For this year’s Heritage Week Deena and I organised a weir building workshop based on my personal life experiences of working on the repair and the fishing of the traditional Waterford Harbour Head Weir. I decided to build a life-size model of the...
by andrew | Sep 24, 2022 | Project Updates, River Lore
After four long years of a hard slog, Cheekpoint finally got a new pontoon access to the water, bringing the village into the 21st Century. A small local committee with a very healthy membership of local boat owners was behind the project and from the outset, the...
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