Super Valu foyer

Kanturk Men’s Shed Christmas Fair

My Kanturk family met these Two Crafty Kerry Ladies at the local fair. Lovely to see these women bringing their gorgeous wares over the border to Cork.

More Reminders of Nature’s Destructive Power

Dandy Lodge surrounded by receding floodwater on November 23 2024

I took this before noon from the viewing platform by the river.

This is the river walk to the left of that path.

“I was there at the flood of 2024,” Will this little lad be telling his grandchildren that he witnessed with is own eyes historic levels of floodwater in The Feale. I hope that by then the river and its tributaries will be dredged and the awful event of Saturday last will just be a bad memory.

Spotted earlier in the Week

In a Listowel garden

An Ancient Harpist

Image and test from An Claíomh Solais

Pádraig Dall Ó Beirn was the last noted exponent in Ireland of the historical Gaelic wire strung harp and the first Irish traditional musician ever photographed.

Postbox in Youghal

A Fact

The only creature ever known to be killed by a meteor was a dog in Egypt in 1911.

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