The original school was founded by the late Mrs. Peg O’Connor in the Emer Hall, Waterloo Road in 1952. Among the teachers in those early days were Mr. Aodán O’Donoghue, later to become Cigire in the Dept. of Education, and the late Ms. Marie Hobbs, later a Vice-Principal in St. Aloysius, Cork.
War at Sea, Food Shortages, Regulation. The battlefields of Belgium and France may have seemed far away but the war was also being fought just off the coast of Ireland.
Blarney Hunt Club or ‘The Hunt Club’ as it was locally known, was founded and established in 1886 and lasted for 133 years until it was eventually disbanded in 2019.
Compiled by Brian Gabriel Harvest Home at Blarney – October 1850 We witnessed, last Saturday, one of those delightful entertainments,…
Blarney Group LDF 1942, Nominal Roll 13/1/42 – 24/3/42.
On 10th January 1923, the Commissioner of Public Works wrote to the Secretary of the Minister of Home Affairs informing him that the local assistant architect had visited Blarney and had found that the only suitable accommodation for the Civic Guard was a house near the Muskerry train terminus owned by Mrs. Cotter, a school teacher and wife of Eugene Cotter, also a school teacher, of Emerald House, Blarney.
Listing of the first Applicants for Membership of the newly forming ‘Our Lady of the Immaculate Conception’ Blarney Boys Club’, under the direction of the Blarney Praesidium of The Legion of Mary.
All Saints Well is located in the townland of Killeens and situated on a private working farm located near the…
One of the most picturesque and interesting trips I made in Great Britain was the trip by the Cork, Muskerry and Donoughmore railway to Blarney. The train follows the winding, grass grown, tree shaded banks of the river Lee for some miles.
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.
