by andrew | May 2, 2017 | Built Heritage, Waterford History
Jack Meades pub and restaurant has got to be one of the more remarkable and intriguing 18th Century agricultural sites in the country. As a young man I hadn’t much time for the older men who drank there, preferring to spend my time having the craic and the beer...
by andrew | Nov 25, 2016 | Waterford History
The Marquis de Bombells visited Waterford in November 1784, and over a week, made some observations on the area which he probably would not have had the time for, except that he was waiting on a ship to take him away. Similar indeed, to another foreign visitor we...
by andrew | Jun 3, 2016 | Waterford History
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...
by andrew | Mar 27, 2015 | Built Heritage, River Lore, Waterford History
Last summer whilst out kayaking on the river I chanced a trip up the Ballycanvan stream, which leads up to the ever-popular Jack Meades at Halfway House. I made the trip in an effort to track the route of the Lighters that would have supplied the Kilns at Jack Meades...
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