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The Monks forgotten Tower house

by andrew | Jun 10, 2016 | Built Heritage, Maritime Wexford

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...

Waterford harbour kidnappers

by andrew | Apr 15, 2016 | Irelands Maritime Heritage, Royal Navy, Waterford History

I first heard about the press gang menace while fishing for salmon in the river as a child. The story was introduced, like so many others by my father, in a dramatic way. We were drifting on the ebb tide at night, off Ryan’s shore, when we heard a boat rowing...

The Prong – curious and unique boat of the Three Rivers

by andrew | Feb 19, 2016 | Fishing Heritage, Irelands Maritime Heritage, River Lore

As a child there was many sights that I took for granted in a traditional fishing community such as Cheekpoint. Sights like men repairing nets, beam trawls laid out on the village green, weir poles at high water mark and timber boats of all shapes and descriptions....

February – traditional start date of the Salmon Driftnet Fishery

by andrew | Jan 29, 2016 | Fishing Heritage

The traditional start of the Salmon drift net season in Ireland was, for generations, February 1st. Once opened it stretched to August 15th, the Feast of the Assumption, and a very important church holiday in the village in the past. By the time I started to fish...

words and phrases my Grandmother used

by andrew | 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...

The Monks forgotten Tower house

Waterford harbour kidnappers

The Prong – curious and unique boat of the Three Rivers

February – traditional start date of the Salmon Driftnet Fishery

words and phrases my Grandmother used

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