This blog is a personal take on Listowel, Co. Kerry. I am writing for anyone anywhere with a Listowel connection but especially for sons and daughters of Listowel who find themselves far from home. Contact me at listowelconnection@gmail.com
Bobby Cogan and his Lakewood Division 2 team who won their Winter League match at the weekend.
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Friendship Celebrated
Make new friends
But keep the old
The new ones are like silver
But the old ones are like gold
Peggy O’Shea, Mary Cogan, Margo Anglim and Assumpta O’Sullivan, friends for 50 years, meeting up for a regular catch up in March 2024 .
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Pres. Yearbook 1988
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An Obituary
I spotted this obituary in this week’s Kerry’s Eye. I never met Jim Costelloe but he is a man I feel I know through his book. He wrote about Asdee in the 1940s and 50s, a world very familiar to me from my own childhood.
I’ve featured many of his stories in his lovely chatty writing style on here in the past. I’ll have to revisit them again now.
Molly at the Tim Kennelly Roundabout, June 26 2023
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Kiskeam, Co. Cork
Kiskeam is a lovely rural North Cork village. It has, in the last few years, taken to preserving its heritage in murals and other initiatives aimed at connecting its diaspora at home and abroad with their roots.
Kiskeam suffered during the Famine and its population was further decimated by emigration in times of tough unemployment since. Kiskeam people are lovely and they have done every thing they can to welcome home the huge population worldwide with roots in this corner of the diocese of Kerry.
My friend, Phil, met this lovely man, Dan Lane who remembered her parents and was very knowledgeable about the village and knew the location of many graves .
Barr na Sráide is one visitor initiative.
Opposite the graveyard in Kiskeam is an old lane where once local tradesmen plied their trades.
Nowadays on one side are lovely new homes and on the other side murals commemorate the many trades that once kept the village folk alive. A way of life now faded from memory is commemorated for today’s children.
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Summer Maintenance
The fine weather is ideal for painting and decorating our shopfronts. Martin Chute is working on The Harp and Lion.
The Pat McAuliffe plasterwork has stood the test of time and is now ready for Martin’s skilled paintwork.
I disturbed Martin to ask him to pose with Jed Chute who happened to be passing by. Two lovely Listowel men.
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A Last Few Dollies
Who better than Danny to reproduce a good Dolly look?
The Colorado branch of the Groarke family called in to be part of Dolly Day.
Dolly Day was a very inclusive event bringing babies, pensioners and everyone in between together for 2 great charities.
Boasting impressive frontage were Eithne, Barry and Brenda O’Halloran
These three went creative with the costumes even if some of the attire was a tad unseasonal.
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Meanwhile in Sunday’s Well
I’m dead proud of my Anne who, with her partner Kevin, won the mixed doubles in Sunday’s Well recently
