An absolutely delightful Christmas Play with a fourth Wise Man received its premiere in Cloghoula N.S. on Wednesday, 21st Dec. 2011 before a hugely appreciative audience. We shall be featuring a very brief sequence from the performance on LTV2 on Christmas Day in the 11.30pm to midnight slot. Also included here with the pupils are Teacher Leo McCarthy and Principal Mary Murphy. (S.R.)
Oh I love Cloghoula countryside when wild flowers are in bloom
Just outside the Town of Millstreet on the way out towards Macroom
When the birds are singing gaily and new leaves are on the trees
And the brown bog larks are piping o’er the bogland of Gneeves.
Oh I love you sweet Kilmeedy at the back of Clara hill
I have always been in love with you and doubtless I always will
You are beautiful and peaceful and your fields are evergreen
And you wake to greet each dawning day like a rare beauty queen.
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LTV1 is back on air from Wednesday, 9th Nov. and LTV2 Millstreet from Thursday, 10th Nov.. Pictured here in The Pub, Carriganima at a recent LTV Meeting are members of the team - from left: Seán, Mary, Brendan, Eily, William, Dan Joe and Michael. Test transmissions will take place before the broadcast season begins. The channel will be available on UHF Channel 48 and 50. Also on VHF Channel 12. Some of the programmes will also be uploaded on the Millstreet website. The LTV2 Supporters Club will help to fund the voluntary, community-based local television service. (S.R.)
Today’s Irish Times reports that Energia have begun civil engineering work on its Caherdowney wind farm, (which is midway between Millstreet and Macroom).
The Caherdowney Wind farm is made up of just four turbines, as well as the other associated infrastructure in windfarms. There are some photos on the website of Wind Farm Civils who are doing the work on site
Winners of the Men's Race at Cloghoula Pattern Day on Sunday, 19th June 2011.
Blessed with excellent weather this year’s Cloghoula Pattern Day was a great success with such a variety of exciting and imaginative activities. Knocknagree N.S. won the Quiz for the second continue reading…
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Due to present weather conditions Cloghoula Pattern Day scheduled to have taken place on tomorrow in the grounds of Cloghoula N.S., has been POSTPONED until a later date yet to be confirmed.
7th May: Please note that Cloghoula Pattern Day has been postponed until a later date.
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VERY IMPORTANT: Football and Race Registration at 1 o clock – SHARP!
Pictured recently at Millstreet Parish Centre personnel attending an updating workshop relating to Sunday's national Census 2011. Sunday, 10th April is Census Night.
The wonderful spectacle at the bottom of the frozen Comeenatrush Waterfall ar Curragh on Christmas Day, taken by Kevin Buckley.
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If you have any weird or wonderful photographs from the last week or so, please send them in to 
and we’ll put them up for you.
The severe cold in the last few days has seen Comeenatrush waterfall and lake freeze over in spectacular fashion. Photos above and below thanks to Neil Corkery. continue reading…
Due to the present wintery weather conditions and because Cloghoula N.S. is closed, the Mass and Nativity Play scheduled to take place there today, has been cancelled. Over the years this wonderful occasion has been one of the major highlights of the year.
The team who recently arranged to extend the Church Signal from St. Patrick's Church,Millstreet to a far wider area - (from left) John Hickey, the Keogh Brothers from Dublin and John Joe Moriarty. The aerial on the roof of the Church is now much higher. One may obtain the Church Signal on UHF Channel 53. It can be tuned in when Church Services take place. If you are one of the new people who is now receiving the signal (which provides television coverage of Church Services) we would very much appreciate it if you would indicate the area in which you are receiving it by adding a comment here or by emailing <email> This will very much help us to determine the extended radius of the signal. Sincere thanks. (Seán Radley for www.millstreet.ie)
LTV2 Millstreet, our community-based, non-commercial local television channel is scheduled to be back on air tonight with a broadcast at 10.00 p.m.. The transmission tonight features a repeat of a programme from our archives and a further repeat of another archival programme will be broadcast at 10.00 p.m. on Thurday, 4th November. Our first new programme of the season will be transmitted on Thursday, 11th November at 10.00 p.m.. It is hoped that, in time, we may be in a position to feature our weekly transmissions on the internet giving an opportunity to all our loyal website followers to experience LTV2 Millstreet on a regular basis. (Seán Radley for www.millstreet.ie and LTV2 Millstreet)
Meeting with author Tom Grainger (on right) at the Wallis Arms Hotel today. Tom’s excellent book “A War Baby – Rags to Riches” (See Tom’s splendid website www.tomgraingerbooks.com ) is now in its second edition and will soon be available at “Wordsworth” Bookshop, The Square, Millstreet. Tom has many wonderful connections continue reading…
Ann Lane (formerly of Ballinatona, Millstreet) has spent four years and traveled over 14,000 miles on an odyssey to catalog the country’s main pieces of public art. She said it was her initial encounter with Capall Mór, the ferro-cement over a steel structure, near Tralee, that depicts a Celtic war horse with broken chains around its forelegs, signifying freedom, which inspired her to undertake the task of cataloging the works …
This is from an article in the Irish Examiner today(5th Aug) describing her passion for public art, and her journey to this stage.
She featured on RTE Radio 1 yesterday morning (4th Aug) on the Kathryn Thomas Summer On One show, which can be heard in the podcast at the top of this page. (from 9:13 to 11:10 – starts just before the middle of the audio).
Ann’s passion was featured in an article on the Global Post from September ’09, and it shows some of the wonderful photography she has taken.
Ann Lane’s photographic journal of public art will be published this autumn by Wordwell Books.
with thanks to Kevin for the info on this article
This is an old photo taken in Cloghoula School sometime in the 1970s or 80s. Does anyone know when it was taken, or the occasion? And, if someone knows lots of people in the photo, could you take the time to leave the names in a comment below please.
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Genealogists and family historians all over will be delighted to hear that the 1901 census of Ireland has been online for some two weeks now. There are only two complete censuses relating to Ireland: those conducted in 1901 and 1911. The 1911 census went online just under a year ago, and contains slightly more information about each individual, but the 1901 census includes the following:
Name and surnameThe census is hosted on the nationalarchives.ie website, and you can navigate the Census in two ways:
Map of Communities in IRD Duhallow
IRD Duhallow have recently updated their website and all the up to date information is there, including the Monthly Newsletter, DART Timetables, info on grants, Duhallow Initiatives, a communities section, and much more.
from IRD Duhallow
Annabelle O’Sullivan presenting the “Mrs. O’Sullivan” Cup to the victorious Knocknagree N.S. Quiz Team – Andrew Sheehan, Darren Brosnan (Captain), Eoghan McSweeney and Paul O’Connor – at the recent Cloghoula N.S. (Millstreet) Sports and Pattern Day. Also included is Mary Murphy, Principal, Cloghoula National School. Pic.: Seán Radley
