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The Road to Glenbeg260 viewsRudyard Kipling wrote the following during a visit to Berehaven: All Ireland was new to me, and I went ashore to investigate Castletown’s street of white houses, to smell peat smoke and find Dan Murphy, owner of a jaunting car and ancient friend of the ward-room. In this quest, me and the Navigator mustered not less than half the male population of Cork County, the remainder being O’Sullivans; but we found Dan at last – old, grizzled, with an untamable eye, voluble and beautifully Celtic. ‘Will I meet ye to-morrow at Mill Cove at nine-thirty? I will. Here’s my hand an’word on it. Will I drive to Glenbeg for fishing? I will. There’s my hand an’word on it. Do I mean it? Don’t I know the whole livin’fleet, man an’boy, for years?
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Crowd on the Old Pier259 viewsRegatta Day
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Ancient Order of Hibernians256 viewsCanon McDonnell P.P. with the Castletown Berehaven A.O.H. Band in front of 'Church of the Sacred Heart. 1912
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Sean and Riobard O’Dwyer, Ardgroom247 viewsWell known Beara athletes. Riobard won five All-Ireland Senior Hop, Step and Jump championships from 1952-1956 and two more in 1964 and ‘65. Sean won six All Ireland Hop, Skip and Jump and three All Ireland Long Jump medals.
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Christmas came late in 1908243 viewsThe S.S. Irada (Gulf Transport Line) was a cargo ship of 8,124 tons built in Belfast by Workman Clark & Co in 1900 for H. Welsford & Co. She left Galveston, Texas in November 1908 with a mixed cargo of raw cotton and 21,000 bales of cotton bound for Liverpool. On the 22nd of December 1908 she hit rocks off the SW Point of Mizen Head and sank with the loss of Captain Beveridge, four crew members and a stewardess. Subsequently many of the bales washed into Pulleen Harbour to the west of Castletownbere where they were gratefully retrieved by locals in the above Picture. The propeller from the ‘Irada’ was salvaged in 1994 and now rests at Mizen Head Visitor Centre as a memorial to all wrecked ships in the area.
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Reaping Oats241 viewsNealie (Dan) O'Sullivan, Donal O'Sullivan and Ebbie Harrington reaping oats at Cahermore
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Tim Harrington M.P239 viewsStatue of Tim Harrington, erected on the site of his homeplace
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All for Ireland League Band 1910231 viewsAll for Ireland League Band Castletown Berehaven 1910
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Separator Lorry230 viewsWhen the Castletownbere Creamery first opened in the late 1930’s, it had three separator lorries on the road. This photo is of a separator collecting milk at Rosmacowen Bridge
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