In Issue Number 9 of ‘Old Blarney’, the Journal of the Blarney and District Historical Society (2013), the present author reported on two tragic accidents in 1912 and 1919 involving trains of the Cork and Muskerry Light Railway Company or, as it was popularly known, the ‘Muskerry Tram’.
On the day of this fatality, the boys went there. Young Dan Burke asked a servant of the defendant “Where is the Blarney Stone?” and Harrington, the servant, pointed across to the stone and said “Over there”, but gave no warning as to any danger to a person approaching or kissing it.
The 125th anniversary of the first train to Blarney from the Western Road terminus of the Cork and Blarney Light Railway at the former Jurys, and now River Lee, Hotel site was celebrated in 2012.
In many of the countries of north-west Europe, quantities of butter have been found in bogs on a regular basis over the past 300 years or so and are still being found to the present day.
Captain (and Brevet Major) Ashley Elliott Herbert Fetherstonhaugh of the 14th (Kings) Hussars was the only son of Captain Cecil Digby Howard Fetherstonhaugh, whose family seat was at Bracklyn House, Co. Westmeath.
