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The Cheekpoint quays
Cheekpoint is located 7 miles downstream from Waterford City. It has been an important navigation point for the ports of Waterford and New Ross as it is located at the meeting point of the three sister river network, the Barrow, Nore and Suir. Between them the drain...
Time and tide waits for no man
We all have particular clocks that we need to respond to. For farmers I guess it’s the dawn, when its light enough to see what your doing and which stretches to the dusk. All in all a long day in the height of the summer, but is balanced by the dark of winter. For...
Limekilns in the Cheekpoint & Faithlegg area (Part 2)
I wrote last week about the earlier origins of Kilns and this post focuses on the design and methods employed. The local design is of a block shaped building of cut stone into which is built a firing chamber, lined with firebricks and insulated with rubble and clay. ...
Limekilns in the Cheekpoint & Faithlegg area
This week marks my fourth year of a weekly Friday blog. To celebrate, I decided to republish my first blog. It was my first try at promoting local heritage and I suppose it also gives a sense of my curiosity and determination to discover more about the features that...
It all turns on affection
My grandmother had a phrase “the longer you live in a place, the longer you live”. I found it a curious phrase, one that tended to be used on the death of a friend or neighbour I remember. Like many of my grandmothers utterances, I never stopped the...
principals of a sustainable rural community that I think are worth considering
From Wendell Berry [The concept of "Mendo Island" is not to be isolationist or provincial, but rather to focus our attention and efforts locally, transitioning to more community-sufficiency, and in that process we also help those in far away places who are being...