Cheekpoints most notable landmark

by | Dec 4, 2015 | Built Heritage

Growing up in the Mount Avenue in the 1970’s the most notable and invasive feature on our young lives was neither the magnificent Barrow Railway viaduct, or the colliding waters of the three rivers as they met below our home.  That honour, if that phrase is...

“Shaking” the Herring nets

by | Nov 20, 2015 | Fishing Heritage

Over the last few weeks I’ve occasionally covered my exploits fishing herring in Waterford harbor. The first week looked at getting prepared, and the second installment looked at the finding of the shoal and the catch.  This week I look at the really...

words and phrases my Grandmother used

by | Nov 13, 2015 | Cheekpoint memories

I’ve mentioned before that I first came to live in the Russianside with my grandmother, Maura Moran, in my late teens.  “Nanny” as she was called was in the family had her own way of expressing herself. But of course, she was just a different...