Castleisland Co-Op Mart 1957 to 2023
Castleisland Mart stands within a stone’s throw of the offices of Castleisland District Heritage. John Roche, Chairman of Castleisland District Heritage, is one of its founding members and has been asked to place on record a sketch of its formation. Only those of us 75 and over have a memory of rural Ireland […]
Rev Thomas Radcliff’s Agricultural Survey of Kerry in 1814
Michael O’Donohoe’s papers include an extract from Rev Thomas Radcliff’s agricultural survey of the Castleisland district conducted more than two hundred years ago. The extract, transcribed below, captures social as well as agricultural change. Kerry in 1814 At the commencement of this Barony, in its nearest approach to Killarney, is an extensive tract of […]
