by Jer Kennelly
DRAW: Knockanure Parents Association Next draw 29th August, not too late to be in with a chance to win!
VINTAGE: Knockanure Vintage Day Sunday 18th of August.
PADRE Pio Pilgrimage to Knock on Sunday 22nd September. Bus leaving at 8.30am. Contact Bernadette on (087)601 9474.
KNOCK: Kerry Diocesan Pilgrimage to Knock Shrine Sat. 24th Aug.’24
AGED: Care of the Aged, Chiropodist will attend Marian Hall Monday 19th of August at 10.30am for appointment contact Noreen on 068-49238. Care of the Aged trip to Bunratty on Thursday September 5th. Bus, entrance fee, tea & scones and evening dinner €25. Pay when booking. All bookings and payment by 29th August. Bus leaving Church car park at 10.30am. Book & pay with Noreen 068-49238 or Elaine 068-49692.
GRAVEYARD MASSES; The Moyvane/Knockanure Graveyard Committee would like to thank the following:- Chief Celebrant Fr. Brendan Walsh, Fr. Brendan O’Callaghan & Fr. Tom McMahon. The Eucharistic Ministers, the Sacristans, the Choir & the Readers. Donal O’Sullivan for providing the amplification system. Leo Finucane, Tom Moore, Seamus Clancy, Mike Brosnan & Aiden Stack for providing the car parking facilities. The public for their very generous contribution to our Graveyard Collection. And to everyone that helped in any way.
DEATH of Sr. Francis O’Sullivan, St. Brigid’s, Listowel and Renasup, Gneeveguilla, on 9th August 2024 Predeceased by her parents John and Kate, her sister Hannah and her brothers Tom and Johnny. Sadly missed by the Mercy Sisters, her cousins, friends and neighbours.
DEATH of Gerard Greaney of Kilmorna, Listowel,on Wednesday, 14th August, 2024, Predeceased by his parents Paddy and Kitty. Gerard is survived by his partner Kathleen, sons, Michael, Johnny, Patrick and daughter Linda, their partners and loving mother Helen. Grandchildren Darragh, Nadine, Ella, Jack and Kayden, brothers Jimmy and David, sisters Bridget (Caffrey) and Catherine (Roche, Abbeyfeale), brothers in law, sisters in law, nephews, nieces, extended families, relatives, neighbours and many friends. Funeral cortege departed his home on Saturday morning at 11.00 a.m. to Corpus Christi Church, Knockanure, for 12 noon Requiem Mass
ANNIVERSARIES: Eileen Cronin, Timothy Carr, Mary Stack, Elsie O Sullivan, Joan Keane, Betty Nash, Joan McCarthy, Morgan Flaherty, Bro. Albert Breen, Edward Mulvihill, John Pierse.
MASS Intentions: Sat.17th Aug.’24 Moyvane for Nora & Jack Walsh & Michael Mulvihill (Aniv.’s) at 7.30pm; Sun. 18th Aug.’24 Knockanure a Private Intention at 9.30am, and Mass Moyvane for Mike Scanlon (Aniv.) at 11am; Tues.20th Aug.’24 Moyvane for Tom Scanlon (Aniv.) Leitrim Middle at 10am; Wed.21st Aug.’24 Knockanure a Private Intention at 10am; Thur.22nd Aug.’24 Moyvane a Private Intention at 10am; Fri. 23rd Aug.’24 Knockanure a Private Intention at 10am; Sat.24th Aug.’24 Mossie & Dora Ahern (Aniv.’s) at 7.30pm.; Sun. 25th Aug.’24 Knockanure a Private Intention at 9.30am and Mass Moyvane for Bridie Moore (Aniv.) Glenalappa at 11am; Tues.27th Aug.’24 Moyvane a Private Intention at 10am; Wed.28th Aug.’24 Knockanure a Private Intention at 10am ; Thur.29th Aug.’24 Moyvane for Morgan O’Flaherty (3rd Aniv.) at7pm, No Morning Mass; Fri.30th Aug.’24 Knockanure a Private Intention at 10am; Sat.31st Aug.’24 Moyvane for Gary Meehan, Recently Deceased at 7.30pm; Sun. 1st Sept.’24 Knockanure a Private Intention at 9.30am, and mass Moyvane for Mossie Kearney(1st Aniv.) Moyvane South at 11am.
LISTOWEL RACES: The races take place this September from 22-28 and the accommodation office is open in the Square above Christy’s well bar, Listowel from 11am until 4pm each day. We are looking for anyone that is letting accommodation for race week or anyone that is looking for accommodation please call into the office or call Maria on 0876652211.
GLIN Castle: Tours of Glin Castle and Gardens will be held on Sunday August 25, from 12 noon to 6pm.
ST JOHNS: on Sunday 25th Trad- Eileen O Brien, Deirdre McSherry, Anne Conroy- Burke and Mary Conroy, and on Sat 31st Concert – Songs of Ireland with Pat Shortt and Mike Hanrahan, details from 068 22566.
REVIVAL FESTIVAL – THE SQUARE Friday next, August 23rd and Saturday next 24th August. The Square will be closed off for parking during these dates. Please note, because of traffic & restricted parking with the Concert beginning at 7.00 p.m. the Vigil Mass on Saturday night next, 24th, will take place at the earlier time of 6pm.
SIAMSA Tíre presents Andrew Lloyd Webber’s most popular musical Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat directed by Oliver Hurley – 23rd-25th August.
SIAMSA Tire, Angela Ryan Whyte as its new CEO. Angela is a past pupil of Kilflynn National School. She held many roles, including actor, playwright, director, producer, and drama facilitator and toured nationally and internationally, and co-founded the national playwriting festival.
ABBEYFEALE RUGBY CLUB: The club are looking to provide an option for girls in the Abbeyfeale area to play rugby. To make a start they plan to train an U14 side for the coming season. Áine Reidy and Mike Nash will coach the team and Áine has also arranged to have a guest coach from Munster Rugby once a month.
RAMBLING HOUSE; Listowel on last Thursday of the month and Knockanure on the first Thursday of the month. Ballyhahill 3rd Wednesday in the Community Centre.
REUNION: there will be a 50th reunion of the class of 1974 from the Convent School in Abbeyfeale On August 30th at The Winners Circle, Abbeyfeale.
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HERITAGE Week; From Gortaglanna to the Galtymore: Film and community storytelling networks 22 August, 7pm – 8:30pm at Kerry Writers’ Museum @ 24 The Square, Listowel; Killing Of Pig (1978), a short film by John Lynch on 21 August, 8:30pm – 10pm- Kerry Writers’ Museum @ Kissane’s Farm, Cloontubbrid, Listowel; Any old film in the attic? Managing personal collections of film and digital media. Kerry Writers’ Museum @ 24 The Square, Listowel on 25 August, 10am – 4pm, details at https://www.heritageweek.ie/event-listings?q=kerry#listings
HERITAGE WEEK: sites in County Limerick were open to the public free of charge on Saturday/Sunday August 17/ 18, as part of Heritage Week. They include the Lough Gur Visitor Centre and Lakeshore Park, Adare Castle, and Desmond Castle in Newcastle West. A Barnagh Tunnel nature walk took place on Saturday August 17, at 11am. Biodiversity walk with Geoff Hunt noticing nature on the Limerick Greenway on Sunday August 18, at 2pm. In celebration of Heritage Week, Foynes Flying Boat Museum is offering a free guided tour of the new Maureen O’Hara Collection on Tuesday August 20, at 2pm. Tour beginning at 2pm sharp. Attendees will have free access to all areas of the museum after the tour. Free entry to the museum is included. A walking tour of Ballingarry takes place on Saturday August 24, at 3pm. A family fun day event will be held on the River Arra Newcastle West on Sunday August 24.
RELIC: St Bernadette Relic tour around Ireland, runs from September 4th – November 5th 2024. Church of Our Lady and St Brendan, Tralee. Pilgrimage Date: 13/09/24 & 14/09/24
https://stbernadette.ie/pilgrimage-details/
FEAST of St. Bernard is celebrated on Tuesday 20th August. The great Cistercian saint who in 1115 became abbot of Clairveaux in France, which over the next 38 years grew to be one of the largest Monasteries in Europe. Feast of St. Rose of Lima is celebrated on Friday 23rd August. Born in the city of Lima in Peru, she devoted her life to the care of the poor and the homeless before dying at the age of 31.
BEACH Litter: September 20th to 22nd, volunteers will gather to clean our beaches and contribute to a global effort to combat marine litter. For more information and to register, visit www.cleancoasts.org
FUNDS: Government has raised funding for the national Meals on Wheels service from over €3 million in 2022 to over €6 million this year.
CHARITY CÉILÍ: The 3rd annual charity Céilí will be held in the Community Centre (V92WV70) Knocknagoshel on Sunday August 25th from 3-6pm. Music by Taylor’s Cross Céilí band.
VINTAGE: Athea Vintage Club event September 1st. They are raising funds for the development of the Playground in Athea.
TRIP TO DONNERAILE Sunday Aug., 24th, Fitzpatrick’s Bus picking up in Listowel at 9am. in the Square, Abbeyfeale 9.15.am bus stop opposite the Church. Newcastlewest opposite the Longcourt house hotel bus stop 9.30am For More Information and booking Contact Maureen Finnegan at 087 984 5102.
KILLARNEY three-day summer horse-racing festival from Thursday, August 22 to Saturday, August 24.
GREENWAY OUTING: The Great Southern Trail Group are organising a trip to New Ross, Wexford Greenway on Saturday August 31. Departing from the Market Yard Newcastle West at 8pm. Contact Pat Condon on 069-62344 or Liam O’Mahony on 087-6471956 or email greatsoutherntrail @gmail.com
GROW MENTAL HEALTH GROUP meets in Seanchaí Centre, Listowel every Wednesday evening at 8:00 pm. No referrals necessary. Just come along or telephone Jerry at 086-0271990.
CATARACT: Danny Healy Rae, TD, He’s advising anybody in need of a cataract procedure to book their place now on one of the three buses he’s arranging during this month of August to beat the reduction in the post procedure reimbursement rates being imposed by the HSE. Contact, Healy Rae, Main Street, Kilgarvan, Co. Kerry 064 66 85315 / 087 2316055
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60 YEARS of Dairy; Agriland Media Group is delighted to collaborate with the National Dairy Council (NDC) to bring you the Raising the Dairy Voice Series.
The Raising the Dairy Voice Series will comprise weekly articles covering many aspects of the dairy sector and the NDC’s work within in.
To celebrate 60 years of the NDC, Agriland spoke to two of the NDC’s farmer ambassadors, who are both steeped in the dairy farming tradition, with their respective families
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SIAMSA Video link
Filename Fr Pat Ahern Siamsa Tribute day Introduction
FULL Moon was on 19th of Aug., Land is dry this year at present, turf is in good condition.
LARTIGUE monorail and museum is open on the John B Keane road in Listowel seven days a week between 1pm-4pm. Phone 068 24393 for further information.
SCHOOL Folklore; Knockanure Parish History
Gurtaglanna has been the home of the Mc Mahon’s for the past four hundred years. My father Thomas Mc Mahon was the sixth generation, his great grandfather’s grand father having married the daughter of a man named Lyons after he – Mc Mahon – had been evicted from his land – at Tubber – Tureen. Within about three hundred yards of my house is the ruins of an old grinding mill; where the mill-stream ran can be easily traced. This mill was in working order up to eighty years ago, and was owned by my great-grandfather’s father.
Gurtaglanna at that time had an old blacksmith named Moloney, a cooper named Hanrahan, a carpenter named Mulvihill, a thatcher named Pardine, a weaver named Madigan. All these lived right at the cross-road of Gurtaglanna; the houses being joined together just like a village, only two houses now remain. The owners of these acquired them by purchase from the former owners, and what are now cabbage-haggard’s were the sites of the houses of the former inhabitants of Gurtaglanna.
Illicit distillation of whiskey was also carried on at Gurtaglanna and in a fairly large scale too, for owing to the fact that the main road from Limerick to all the principal towns of Kerry passed through it, a drop or two of the mountain dew was no hurt to the weary traveller.
The Mc Mahons formerly came from Kilmurry Mc Mahon in County Clare six hundred years ago and settled at Murhur; anyone who enters Murhur Cemetery will see from inscriptions on head-stones that the Mc Mahons are some of the oldest inhabitants of Murhur parish.
Within a few hundred yards of Gurtaglanna lies Glounrukain wood. It is on the side of a glen, and is entirely composed of oak-trees and hazel-bushes; through it runs a never-failing stream. The ground is rough and stoney, huge rocks of stones are exposed here and there; one of these rocks is known as the “slipping flag”. It has a smooth surface and is about fourteen feet long, by about ten feet in width and is in a sloping position, it is not much used now, but in olden days when the wood was in the possession of the Sandes of Sallowglen many gay days were spent at the “Slipping-flag” as picnics were held there every Summer in one of the glades at the north-eastern side, there assembled the greater part of the landlords of North Cork, Limerick, and Kerry, the festivities often lasting three days; with them too came the usual number of retainers, rent warners and estate-bailiffs, and as some of the descendants of the latter are still in this parish pose to-day as great Irishmen it would not be fair to mention names, these of course were there as attendants, the whole company were shown about the place by the wood-ranger who was also game-keeper to Sandes.
About one hundred and fifty years ago the only school in Knockanure parish was situated at Trien gate, it was what was known as a common school, the teacher’s name was John Lynn, he was a very learned man and produced good scholars, one of whom became teacher in Knockanure after he (Lynn) had gone to Newcastle West. Burns was this young man’s name and the school he taught was situated in the chapel yard right where the church-bell is now erected, it was a thatched structure built with mud and had two chimneys but one of them was what is known as a “blind chimney”. Burns was a native of this parish, he left the school and went to some business in Cork where his family still reside. He was then succeeded by Whyte, a native of Athea, but after six years teaching Whyte committed suicide by cutting his throat, and as this happened during school hours needless to say his pupils were terrified and ran wild and the majority could never be got back to school again.
A man named Keane next came teaching there but he was not much of a teacher it appears that the necessary qualifications to become a teacher in those days were that you be able to write and also be able to make block capitals for the use of the local smith when making brands for farmers with which they branded their names on their firkins of butter.
Daniel Mac Mahon aged 43.
Gortaglanna from National Folklore Collection, UCD.
https://www.duchas.ie/en/cbes/4613713/4611466
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Pattern Day Knockanure
School: Cnoc an Iubhair (C.) Location: Kealid, Co. Kerry
Teacher: Máire Ní Cheallacháin
For generations back in the 15th day of August there was held in Knockanure what was called the Pattern. In the earlier part of the nineteenth century this Pattern was the scene of many a faction-fight between what were known as the Couleens and the Black Mulvihills.
Young and old assembled there to see the fight, the contending parties being armed with black thorn sticks. Each party had its captain and for months previous he had instructions given to his men who attended classes in their various districts by some old veteran who was an adept at the game in his own day.
Hard strokes were given and received and many a young man maimed for life, the fortunes of war varied from year to year, the defeated party always turning up the next year with fresh men and attacked their opponents with renewed vigour. This state of affairs lasted up to about one hundred and twenty years ago when a decisive battle was fought at Ballyeah strand near Ballybunion with a great loss of life to both parties. The clergy appealed to the young men in the different parishes pointing out the foolishness of their action and except for minor little scuffles faction-fighting died down in North Kerry.
The young men of the different parishes when “the Pattern day” came round organised sports, this turned the minds of the youth into other channels and faction fighting was completely forgotten. The only people who tried to keep it alive were the old seasoned veterans and at fire side and cross road they recalled the “brave deeds” of the men of their day and rebuked the youth taunting them with cowardice, but their encouragement was in vain.
Informant.
Daniel Mac Mahon Age 43 Address Lissaniska, Co. Kerry
https://www.duchas.ie/en/cbes/4613713/4611484
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IRISH Abroad: His book, Plentiful Country: The Great Potato Famine and the Making of Irish New York, came out earlier this year. In an era before photo IDs, the bank, which catered to Irish, collected details on each of its customers so they could later prove who they were to bank clerks, including the year and exact place they were born, the name of the ship that took them over, and the names of their parents and their siblings and children. The details made it possible for Anbinder to track their movements in the United States, with the help of a small army of research assistants and a professional genealogist.
Anbinder is a professor emeritus at George Washington University. He spoke with the Register’s Matt McDonald by telephone on July 9. A transcript of the interview is below;
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Death, Burial, Cemetery & Obituaries
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PAYMENT: A number of individuals are eligible to claim a weekly supplementary payment of up to €230.
This is a weekly allowance given to those who lack sufficient income to cater for their needs or their family’s needs. The Department of Social Protection disburses this payment, and there are five conditions that must be met to claim it, reports RSVP Live.
https://www.dublinlive.ie/news/dublin-news/social-welfare-ireland-thousands-families-29459189
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SEASON OF CREATION LECTURE – “Developing an Eco-Spirituality – To Hope and Act with Creation” on 19th September at 7.30pm in Renehan Hall, St. Patrick’s College Maynooth. Xavier de Bénazé SJ will explore eco-spirituality and Laudato Si’ through different perspectives which reflect on the current environmental crises and how eco-spirituality is part of the solution. To register for this event please email [email protected]
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Arts Festivals and Events Calendar (https://kerrycoco.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u=b3755ab5575cb711eac9566f8&id=96840620a2&e=57e387efec)
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Preview YouTube video Fr Pat Ahern Siamsa Tribute day Introduction May 2018
Fr Pat Ahern Siamsa Tribute day Introduction May 2018
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