Maintaining Dunmore East Harbour

by | Jun 29, 2018 | Dunmore East, Guest Posts

For this latest guest blog, I’m delighted to welcome back David Carroll, who shares more memories of his childhood in Dunmore East in the 1950’s & 60’s. In a similar vein to his previous blog on the village, and his recollection of the ship wreck...

The Faithlegg “dungeon”

by | Jun 22, 2018 | Built Heritage, Cheekpoint memories

We often fear what we don’t know, have never experienced or what is new and different. As free ranging children of the 1970’s one of the more mysterious and fear inducing encounters must have been in what was then called the “Oak Woods” but...

Visiting Minaun Hill

by | Jun 8, 2018 | Cheekpoint memories, Waterford History

One of the most beautiful views, and quieter walks that you will find in in East Waterford is the Minaun, overlooking the Meeting of the Three Sisters and with panoramas over the counties of the SE, down the harbour and out to the Saltee Islands.  My mother told me...

Cheekpoint Fairy Tale?

by | Jun 1, 2018 | Cheekpoint memories, Folklore

I was often chided for my romantic notions of the Cheekpoint name deriving from the fairy folk, the Sidhe.  However in recent months strong, albeit circumstantial, evidence is coming to the surface that those of us with romantic notions may not be totally without...