Thursday, September 17, 2009

(3) (24 photographs)


3.1 Benmore Housing Estate, Sportsfield Road, Ballyduff


3.2 Playing in the New Year, Ballyduff, 1st January 1981


3.3 Caitlin O'Connor painting the Ballyduff Crest on the wall at the back of the stage in the Community Centre.


3.4 Slieveawadra National School, Ballyduff


3.5 Ferrybridge, Ballyduff / Ballybunion road


3.6 A view of the Ferry Bridge


3.7 Lacca / Sheepwalk Avenue, Ballyduff


3.8 Benmore Avenue, Ballyduff


3.9 Tower Drive, Ballyduff


3.10 Benmore Estate, Sportsfield Road, Ballyduff


3.11 Tralee Road, Ballyduff


3.12 Water Tower, North / Sea Road, Ballyduff


3.13 New Club and Dressing Room (rear), Ballyduff G.A.A. pitch


3.14 New Club and Dressing Room (front), Ballyduff G.A.A. pitch


3.15 Ballyduff G.A.A. pitch


3.17 Ballincrossig National School


3.18 Ballyduff G.A.A. Crest on the front wall of the new G.A.A. dressing room.


3.19 Old section, Rahela Cemetery, Ballyduff


3.20 Batty Lyons, (the Saint Patrick) just before the parade on the 17th of March


3.21 The Bishop of Kerry, Rev. Bill Murphy, saying Mass in Raheela Cemetery, July 2000


3.22 Rosary beads, made from fishing floats, hanging in S.S.Peter and Paul's Church, Ballyduff


3.23 The Bishop of Kerry, Rev. Bill Murphy, blessing the Pieta in Rahela Cemetery, July 2000.


3.24 Playing in the New Year, 1st of January 1981.

(4) (14 photographs)


4.1 Out with the Wren, December 26th


4.2 The Old Water Pump at the Cashen, Ballyduff


4.3 Ballyduff G.A.A.Centenary Cake, 1991 (cut in the Community Centre, at the launch of the local G.A.A. book)

4.4 The local G.A.A. Banner across the street, Benmore Cross, Ballyduff (1991)


4.5 (1990s) Marian Procession through the Main Street of Ballyduff on the night of 7th September after Mass (Vigil of Our Lady's Birthday).


4.6 Plaque on the wall at the Cashen River, Ballyduff


4.7 Meadow Lane Housing Estate, Ballyduff


4.8 Meadow Lane Housing Estate, Ballyduff


4.9 Corpus Christi Procession (1990s)


4.10 First modern Ballyduff St. Patrick's Day Parade (1993)


4.11 Ballyduff Central National School


4.12 The Ballyduff Choir members that sang at the Millstreet Millenium Concert organised and conducted by Fr. Pat Ahern.


4.13 Good Friday Pageant, Ballyduff, 2004 (Ballyduff Drama Group)


4.14 Taking part in the Cashen River Raft Run, about 2003



Tuesday, September 1, 2009

(5) (25 photographs)

5.1 Christmas lights in front of St.s Peter and Paul Church, Ballyduff

5.2 Charles Laide, in October 2000, demonstrates making nets at the Cashen

5.3 Some Ballyduff Pioneers stand on the site of the Temperance (Pioneer) Hall, (1911 - 1917) on Friday 30th June 2000, the Feast of the Sacred Heart (photo: Bernard Guerin)

5.4 A Drag Hunt in Ballyduff, about 2002

5.5 The Knopogue Well, Summer 1992

5.7 "Cosy", taken at Dunne's, Glounerdalive in the late 1990s

5.8 Maureen Moriarty and Breda Browne carry the Pioneer banner in the Ballyduff St. Patrick's Day Parade 2003.

5.9 The ruins of St.s Peter and Paul Abbey (approx. 1207 to 1580), Rattoo

5.10 Playing in the New Year, mid 1990s

5.11 Milk churns leaving Ballyduff creamer, about 1990.

5.12 Mr Margaret O'Donaghue, Rahela, 1990, one of the last local women to wear the old shawl.

5.13 Carol singers on the streets of Ballyduff on the night of 22nd December 2000.

5.14 Peggy O'Neill / McCarthy demonstrates, in 1995, how people in bygone days used a turnip as a base for a candle which was lit in a window just after dark on 24th December.

5.15 Peggy O'Neill / McCarthy on Lady's Walk road, Ballyduff

5.16 Ruins of Rattoo Abbey ( approx. 1207 - 1580)

5.17 National boxing champion Garry O'Brien, of Bishopscourt, Ballyduff, receives a presentation from Olympic boxing gold medalist Michael Carruth, on Friday 2nd June, 2000, in Purcell's Bar, Ballyduff.

5.18 Traffic crossing the then new Bailey bridge at Ballynagar in November 1993.

5.19 The interior of St.s Peter and Paul's Abbey, Rattoo, Ballyduff, in the early 1990s.

5.20 Playing in the New Year on 1st January 1991 in Ballyduff, with Thomas Sheehy on the Big Drum (1)

5.21 Playing in the New Year on 1st January 1991 in Ballyduff, with Thomas Sheehy on the Big Drum (2).


5.22 Philip O'Reilly in step at the 2002 Ballyduff St. Patrick's Day Parade

5.23 Ballyduff Rescue boat on the Cashen river about 2003

5.24 The Christmas lights in front of St's Peter and Paul's Church, Ballyduff (2)


5.25 The statue of St. Patrick when it was in front of the church of St.s Peter and Paul, Ballyduff (now re-located to the side of the church)