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Remembrance Day 2019, names of soldiers in Listowel 1922 and Katurk Memories

Turf lorry passes by St. Mary’s Listowel on Sunday November 10 2019.

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People I met in The Square on Sunday




Three lovely ladies, Ingrid O’Connor and her daughters were in The Square after 11.30 mass.

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Remembrance Sunday 2019

The men and woman who organised the remembrance ceremony.

Jim Halpin who has done most to remember the fallen soldiers from North Kerry.

Taking the salute

Raising the tricolour


For me the two most spine chilling moments of the remembrance are firstly the reading out of the names of the fallen. These are local names familiar to us all, ancestors of local people who made the greatest sacrifice. The second moving moment is when that bugler plays the last post, bidding farewell to those who served.

 
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Listowel Army personnel from The Military Archives Census 1922

Listowel (Kerry)

Patrick

Daly

19

Listowel (Kerry)

Patk

Dirran

19

Listowel (Kerry)

Timothy

Enright

18

Listowel (Kerry)

John

Flaherty

28

Listowel (Kerry)

John

Fahy

25

Listowel (Kerry)

Patk

Finn

25

Listowel (Kerry)

John

Flaherty

20

Listowel (Kerry)

William

Flahive

22

Listowel (Kerry)

Stephen

Gurtrie

19

Listowel (Kerry)

Maurice

Granville

52

Listowel (Kerry)

Stephen

Gaughan

22

Listowel (Kerry)

Ned

Hanafin

19

Listowel (Kerry)

John

Hanafin

21

Listowel (Kerry)

Dan

Hunt

30

Listowel (Kerry)

Jeremiah

Hunt

24

Listowel (Kerry)

Martin

Hayes

26

Listowel (Kerry)

Con

Hickey

20

Listowel (Kerry)

Joe

Hynes

22

Listowel (Kerry)

Martin

Hynes

22

Listowel (Kerry)

Martin

Howe

18

Listowel (Kerry)

Michael

Hayes

19

Listowel (Kerry)

Thomas

Haugh

20

6

Listowel (Kerry)

Michael

Hanrahan

23

6

Listowel (Kerry)

Michael

Horan

18

6

Listowel (Kerry)

Bartley

Hernon

30

6

Listowel (Kerry)

Peter

Kenrick

21

6

Listowel (Kerry)

Jas

Kenny

19

6

Listowel (Kerry)

Patk

Kelly

22

6

Listowel (Kerry)

Timothy

Kelly

21

6

Listowel (Kerry)

John

King

21

6

Listowel (Kerry)

John

Murphy

32

8

Listowel (Kerry)

John J

McGarry

19

8

Listowel (Kerry)

John

Moriarty

20

8

Listowel (Kerry)

Patk

Murphy

19

8

Listowel (Kerry)

Michael

Murphy

19

8

Listowel (Kerry)

Francis

Moore

20

8

Listowel (Kerry)

Pat

Morrissey

23

8

Listowel (Kerry)

Thomas

Naughton

19

8

Listowel (Kerry)

Michael

O’Grady

25

8

Listowel (Kerry)

John

Halloran

23

8

Listowel (Kerry)

John

Sullivan

19

10

Listowel (Kerry)

Daniel

Shanahan

22

10

Listowel (Kerry)

Thos

Stack

22

10

Listowel (Kerry)

John

Walsh

21

10

Listowel (Kerry)

John

Walsh

21

10

Listowel (Kerry)

Coleman

Walsh

24

10

Listowel (Kerry)

Christy

Whelan

19

10

Listowel (Kerry)

Michael

Ward

20

10

Listowel (Kerry)

James

McMahon

23

10

Listowel (Kerry)

Dominic

Flaherty

24

10

Listowel (Kerry)

Patk

Sullivan

26

12

Listowel (Kerry)

John

Hickey

18

12

Listowel (Kerry)

Joseph

Grady

18

12

Listowel (Kerry)

William

Archer

18

14

Listowel (Kerry)

John

Ayers

24

14

Listowel (Kerry)

Denis

Bentley

20

14

Listowel (Kerry)

James

Blake

18

14

Listowel (Kerry)

John

Brady

22

14

Listowel (Kerry)

Michael

Bolton

21

14

Listowel (Kerry)

Edmond

Burns

21

14

Listowel (Kerry)

John

Curly

20

14

Listowel (Kerry)

Thomas

Collins

26

14

Listowel (Kerry)

Thomas

Cashel

35

14

Listowel (Kerry)

Thos

Connelly

21

16

Listowel (Kerry)

Austin

Cullinan

22

16

Listowel (Kerry)

Joseph

Condon

19

16

Listowel (Kerry)

Dan

Corry

33

16

Listowel (Kerry)

Patk

Curran

20

16

Listowel (Kerry)

Michael

Cantillon

26

16

Listowel (Kerry)

Michael

Collins

22

16

Listowel (Kerry)

Patk

Curran

20

16

Listowel (Kerry)

Timothy

Donovan

22

16

Listowel (Kerry)

Thomas

Daly

50

16

Listowel (Kerry)

Austin

Kelly

22

18

Listowel (Kerry)

John

Kennedy

21

18

Listowel (Kerry)

John

Lennane

20

18

Listowel (Kerry)

John

Lynch

30

18

Listowel (Kerry)

Mat

Lynch

20

18

Listowel (Kerry)

Lawrence

Larkin

24

18

Listowel (Kerry)

James

Lynch

21

18

Listowel (Kerry)

Joe

Lafferty

20

18

Listowel (Kerry)

Dan

Lynch

22

18

Listowel (Kerry)

Tom

Lynch

21

18

Listowel (Kerry)

George

Mahony

18

20

Listowel (Kerry)

Eugene

McNamara

23

20

Listowel (Kerry)

John

McNamara

19

20

Listowel (Kerry)

John

Moroney

22

20

Listowel (Kerry)

McPhilbin

20

Listowel (Kerry)

William

McNamara

29

20

Listowel (Kerry)

Frank

Mangan

21

20

Listowel (Kerry)

John

Moore

60

20

Listowel (Kerry)

Thomas

Moore

28

20

Listowel (Kerry)

Patk

McGrath

26

20

Listowel (Kerry)

John

O’Grady

23

22

Listowel (Kerry)

Michael

Sullivan

18

22

Listowel (Kerry)

James

Pope

18

22

Listowel (Kerry)

John

Perkins

20

22

Listowel (Kerry)

Patk

Purse

17

22

Listowel (Kerry)

Joseph

Pendergast

23

22

Listowel (Kerry)

Michael

Quirke

18

22

Listowel (Kerry)

John

Ryan

28

22

Listowel (Kerry)

Frank

Roche

22

22

Listowel (Kerry)

Michael

Ryan

18

22

Listowel (Kerry)

T P

Shea

23

24

Listowel (Kerry)

John

O’Connor

32

24

Listowel (Kerry)

Roger

O’Connor

22

24

Listowel (Kerry)

Denis

Sullivan

19

24

Listowel (Kerry)

Michael

O’Connor

18

24

Listowel (Kerry)

Patk

O’Grady

22

24

Listowel (Kerry)

Dan

O’Brien

22

24

Listowel (Kerry)

Brian

O’Grady

26

24

Listowel (Kerry)

John

O’Connell

26

24

Listowel (Kerry)

John

O’Keeffe

21

24

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Kanturk, My Home Town




We, Kanturk natives, are lucky to have a Facebook page dedicated to Kanturk Memories where people share photos and memories.

The above treasure is of a carnival in 1941. Goggin’s was one of the local mineral water companies.

I’m taking a trip down that Memory Lane tomorrow evening, November 15 2019 for my Ahern family are organising a Kanturk launch of A minute of Your Time in the Edel Quinn Hall at 7.30. I’m looking forward to meeting up with old friends and cousins. My cousin, Eugene Brosnan is going to play the music and my super caterer, sister in law is looking after the nibbles.. If you are in the area, drop in. It should be a good one.

Holy Well in Coolard, The Ball Alley, the Vincent de Paul shop and Michael Healy Rae in Woulfe’s

Sunday Morning Walk



Childers’ Park, Listowel Co. Kerry November 18 2018

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Well in Coolard  (Dúchas Collection)

There is a holy well in Coolard and many people visited it on certain days. The same prayers are said at every well and whilst saying it they make nine rounds. When people visit the well they take a bottle of the water home with them and some moss. The water of the above well cures sore throats and rheumatism. The water of the well is never used for any domestic purpose. There was a scarcity of water and the people took the water from the blessed well. They couldn’t get it to boil.

Rinn Tuirc School collection 10 5 1938.

St Bartholomew’s Well, Coolard, Lisselton

Collector Nancy Hanrahan-Informant- Michael Hanrahan, Age 60

The blessed well is situated in a thick wood near Coolard. The well is shallow and a stream of fresh water flows from it. Many people in the district visit the well three times a year, to pay rounds. They go around the well nine times and they say three rosaries. If they have not the rosaries finished when going around, they kneel by the well and finish them. When they are going home they leave money or holy pictures or pieces of cloth on the tree beside the well. Anyone having sores washes them in the water. They also take three sips of the water and also some water with them. The people living near the well use the water for household purposes. It is said that the well was situated farther up on the wood once. A woman washed clothes in it. Then it moved down to where it is at the present time.

Holy Wells 17 – 11- ’38

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Woodford Pottery Nativity



I love my Woodford Pottery crib. I will light a tea light in it every evening from now to Christmas.



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The Ball Alley



Listowel men of a certain age remember the ball alley with great fondness. There have been essays and poems written about the exploits of Listowel’s handballers. I don’t know if the Sheehy brothers who are commemorated on this seat were among the champions but they would have certainly enjoyed being reminded of the days when the ball alley was the centre of young men’s social calendar.




Some years ago in a project undertaken by the young people of Xistance Youth Café the walls of the now disused alley were decorated with graffiti. Over time the pictures have taken a battering from the weather but most are still intact and looking beautiful.



These Pictures are on the side walls. The end wall has had to be replastered.




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Second Time Around




One of my favourite Listowel shops is Second Time Around, the St. Vincent de Paul shop on Upper William Street. It is always staffed by smiling friendly volunteers and there are always great bargains to be had from the stock donated by some really kind  (and stylish) donors.



On Wednesday week when I called in I met these two lovely ladies, Ingrid and EileenR looking after the shop.



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A Booksigning at  Woulfe’s


Michael Healy Rae signing John Hartnett’s copy of his book, Time to Talk



Michael with John and the shop staff, Fiona, Mary and Brenda



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Lyre Postman Retires



(Photo and text from Joe Harrington on Facebook)




Our Postman, Seán O’Connell, on his last day as Lyreacrompane Postman delivering the mail to Norrie Connell, Carrigcannon on Friday November 30 2018. Seán has been the postman in the Lyreacrompane district for 38 years! Happy retirement Seán.


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