Wreck of the Monmountshire

Wreck of the Monmountshire

There is a long list of ships lost in Tramore Bay, Co Waterford. One of the more recent was the three masted sailing iron barque Monmouthshire (1863), which came to her untimely end on Thursday 11th January 1894.  The vessel was built by H M Lawrence, Liverpool, in...
Blaa-therings

Blaa-therings

The long-awaited and much-anticipated new book from Cian Manning has hit the shelves for Christmas and it’s a cracker. Cian is renowned for his fresh look at Waterford history, his unique style of writing, and his ability to extract the nuggets from the mire of...
River women

River women

I was delighted to recently present to the Éigse Sliabh Rua on the topic of 19th Century lives along the local South Kilkenny riverbank.  One of the themes I touched on was women’s work. Women played a vital role in the local fishery and seafaring communities...
The Waterford Poltergist

The Waterford Poltergist

The following story comes from the newspapers of February 1892 and concerns the haunting of an ex-RIC man who had taken up residence in the home of an evicted family.  In February 1892 a family by the man of Kingworth (Kingsworth by some accounts) had a fearful...