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The Monks forgotten Tower house
Adults can sometimes be guilty, inadvertently in fairness, of causing deep confusion in youngsters. An example I can recall was the placename "Buttermilk Castle" or more common with the fishermen simply "the Castle". The Castle was formidable lump of rock and...
TF Meagher; A rebel students return to Waterford 1843
Thomas Francis Meagher was born in 1823 in the building that is now the Granville Hotel on Waterford's busy quays. The family spent some years at Ballycanvan, hence the family tomb at Faithlegg. Thomas got an expensive education which culminated with Stoneyhurst...
Rowing to the dance
If any one thread runs between my weekly blogs, it's the rivers. Being at the meeting place of the three sisters, the Rivers Barrow, Nore and Suir, that's probably not a surprise. But in all those blogs, one I think has been missing, the social element of the...
Celebrating Clean coasts week in Waterford harbour- a heritage event!
My normal blog generally follows a predictable theme of heritage or history concerning Waterford Harbour. However, although this post concerns heritage, which will become clear at the end, it also celebrates volunteers, our youth and decries the condition of our...
River Mersey rescue – SS Bannprince
It's two years this month since I started to write my weekly blog about Cheekpoint and the Waterford harbour area. In that time I've written many varied accounts of growing up, the fishing, the sea and the history and heritage we have in abundance. Most of my...
The Waterford man who sailed with Captain James Cook
Captain James Cook is a renowned explorer who led three separate expeditions into the largely unknown Pacific in the late 1700's and claimed much of it for his country. But he had the help of at least one Waterford man, a certain William Doyle, who has a headstone...