Profile of Castleisland Entrepreneur, W H O’Connor
There is such a thing as inability to relax … His active life was his whole life. To the end, he was working. There was no let up. – Rev Brother Francis writing of his brother, W H O’Connor In 1955, Brother Francis of the Presentation Brothers, Cork, wrote an account of his older sibling, […]
A Tale of Two Fountains
A mid-nineteenth century altercation between two civil engineers casts an historic light on one of Castleisland’s famous landmarks. In the Famine year of 1846, the construction of two fountains – one in Tralee and one in Castleisland – to supply a ‘sufficient and unfailing supply of water to the poorer classes of townsfolk’ was being […]
Dooneen Water Supply
The great public protest of recent years over Uisce Éireann would have been water off a duck’s back to Michael O’Donohoe. His archive included a study of the supply of water to Castleisland. As far back as 1874, the public was far from content with the idea of paying for the utility. At […]
