Gas at Martin Mahony’s Woollen Mills
Gas was manufactured in Blarney Woollen Mill from “gas coal”, a usually bituminous coal used for making gas by distillation.
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Further Fatal Accidents In The Late 19th Century Involving The ‘Muskerry Tram’
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’.
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Flashpoint and Bloodbath at Loughane Bridge
“The year 1836 dawned in an air permeated with an element of tension arising from the seething unrest that existed between the Catholic laity and the Protestant clergymen of the day.
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Finbarr O’Leary – Two-time All-Ireland Champion Boxer
A quiet, un-assuming man walked amongst the residents of Blarney village on a daily basis and not many people are aware that he had been an All-Ireland Champion Boxer, not once but twice.
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Fatality at Blarney Castle Sunday 24th July, 1932
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.
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Fatal Affray at Blarney
The Coroner on Friday 26 July 1867, held an inquest at the South Infirmary to enquire into the death of John McCarthy who died in the institution on Thursday.
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Fatal Accidents in 1912 & 1918 Involving The ‘Muskerry Tram’
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.
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Famous Crime Writer and The Hydro
During its time in existence, St. Ann’s Hydropathic Establishment played host to countless members of royal families, statesmen, politicians, celebrities and wealthy families from across Europe, all wishing to partake of the waters of Doctor Richard Barter’s Hydropathic Establishment which was founded in 1843. Apart from the hotel section St. Ann’s had a number of very desirable residences which were rented at the location.
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Establishing a Community of Nuns at Blarney
The village of Blarney, which fifty years ago (1832) was very unimportant, and would not have been known outside the county, but for the famous old castle and caves, and still more famous ‘kissing stone’, has now assumed a position which bodes well for its future.
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Does The Medicinal Leech Still Exist In Blarney Lake?
William Molyneux (1656-1698), influential Natural Philosopher from Dublin, asked the onetime Military Governor of Cork, Richard Cox (1650-1733), for a description of Cork and its environs as a contribution toward a proposed “Natural History of Ireland” (a work which was never published).
