Kilfinane Coshlea Historical Journals

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2002 Volume 1 Part 1 – Read online

Table of Contents

• {p1} Editorial
• {p3} Foundation of the Historical Society, 1999
• {p4} Kilfinane Abbey Brooch  ^[Note]  
• {p5} Glenbrohane – A Short History
• {p8} Kilfinane man NF Davin In Canada ^[Note]
• {p9} Ballinvreena Youth Club
• {p11} Race Day in Ballinahinch
• {p12} Palatines in the Ballyhoura Country
• {p14} Ballyorgan in the 1930’s
• {p15} Kilfinane Coin
• {p18} The Shrine of St. Molua
• {p20} The Fenians at Kilclooney ^{[Notes 1, 1a ]}
• {p22} The Lee Family and Kilfinane ^{[Note] [House 7]}
• {p24} Abbeyballinegaul
• {p27} John Flanagan, Limerick’s Hercules ^[Kilbreedy]

2002 Volume 1 Part 2 – Read online

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• {p29} Travelling Personalities ^[Note]
• {p30} Crossroads Dancing
• {p31} The Caseys of Kilfinane
• {p32} The Lady they called Sequin Queen ^[Note]
• {p33} A Farmers Prayer
• {p34} Ballylanders Old I.R.A. Memorial ^[Note]
• {p35} The Roll of Honour
• {p38} Report on Ballyriggin Wood
• {p40} The Ryan Family, The Scarteen Hounds ^[Note]
• {p42} Kilfinane National Schools
• {p43} The Life of Staker Wallace ^[Tiermore]
• {p44} Kilfinane Church of Ireland Primary School Goes National
• {p45} How Irish Troops Bagged their First Plane ^[Note]
• {p46} Folklore of the Forge
• {p47} The Lime Kiln
• {p48} Memories of my Youth, Kilfinane in the 40’s
• {p49} Kilfinane Moat or Fort
• {p51} A Brief History of Castle Oliver ^{[NUIG] [NIAH]}
• {p52} Buried in his own Haggard ^[Note]
• {p53} Hurling, The Great Escape
• {p56} The Ballad of Ballinvreena
• {p57} The Rescue of Sean Hogan ^{[Notes 1, 2, 3, 3a, 4, 5 ]}
• {p58} The Station of Knocklong ^{[Notes 1, 2, 2b, 3, 4, 4b ]}
• {p59} List of Patrons
• {p60} Coshlea Map

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2003 Volume 2 Part 1 – Read Online

Table of Contents

• {p1} Editorial
• {p3} Retreat of O’Sullivan Beara
• {p10} Memories of Jimmy Lehane ^[Note]
• {p11} Up My Sleeve
• {p13} Mce Meade – A Freedom Fighter ^{[Note] [BMH Statement]}
• {p16} The East Limerick Fighting Squad ^{[J MacCarthy BMH]}
• {p17} The Hiring Fair
• {p19} Royal Forts of Coshlea
• {p23} The Slievereagh Poem
• {p24} Changed Times at Castle Oliver ^{[Restoration]}
• {p28} Coshlea Poem
• {p29} Griston Bog
• {p30} Liam Manahan ^{[Note] [BMH]}
• {p32} Ballylanders Town Hall Poem
• {p33} Maple Ballroom
• {p34} The Burning of Glenosheen ^[Note]
• {p38} The Moore-Abbey
• {p39} The Legend of Moore-Abbey
• {p40} Istabraq

2003 Volume 2 Part 2 – Read Online

• {p44} A Man before His Time ^{[House 12]}
• {p46} The Staker Wallace Band
• {p48} Ballinahinch
• {p50} The Gascoignes
• {p51} Charge of Riot over Priest’s House
• {p52} Johnny Patterson ^[Note]
• {p53} The Rise & Fall of the Local Creameries
• {p56} The Touring Show
• {p57} Glenaree Urn Burial
• {p59} When Work Meant Work
• {p62} Glenbrohane’s Famous Sons
• {p64} The Famine (poem)
• {p65} Building an Irish Ireland
• {p68} ‘Cross of the Tree’ Ambush Hero ^[Note]
• {p69} The Staker (Poem)
• {p70} Forestry in Kilfinane Area
• {p72} Tribute to J.J. Flanagan ^[Note]
• {p73} Memories of Sister Bridget
• {p80} The Walking Salesman
• {p81} Successful Drama Festival
• {p82} Gold in Bulgaden
• {p83} Gold in Bulgaden (poem)
• {p84} Don’t judge Others Too Harshly

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2005 Volume 3 Part 1 – Read Online

Table of Contents

• {p1} Editorial
• {p3} Place Names of Coshlea ^{[PW Joyce – 47mb]}
• {p7} Other Days in Limerick’s Athletic History ^[Note]
• {p8} Cattle Raiding in the Galtee Mountains
• {p10} Kilfinane Chess Club
• {p15} The ancient Parish of Galbally
• {p18} Weather Recording at Mount Russell ^{[Dataset] [2] [3] [4]}
• {p20} If my Memory Serves me Right ^[Note]
• {p27} Ballinvreena Foot Beagles
• {p29} Oliver’s Mill
• {p37} Fr. Sheehy and his Executioner
• {p39} Grand Jury Presentments

2005 Volume 3 Part 2 – Read Online

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• {p45} Kilfinane Church ^{[NIAH] [Note]}
• {p55} Anne O’Sullivan
• {p58} The Last Defender ^[Note]
• {p60} The Sisters in Kilfinane ^{[NIAH] [Notes 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 ]}
• {p63} Raheenamadra
• {p81} The Travelling People
• {p82} Fragments of Lost Census
• {p86} The Shraharla Ambush ^{[Notes 1, 2, 3 ]}
• {p88} Duntryleague
• {p96} Lewis Prytherch’s Manuscript
• {p99} Researching your Locality

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2007 Volume 4 Part 1 – Read Online

Table of Contents

• {p1} Editorial
• {p3} Davy Quish
• {p6} The Canon Hayes Memorial Hall ^[Note]
• {p11} The Galbally Riots
• {p12} The Galbally Sports
• {p13} Fair Day in Kilfinane
• {p15} Kilfinane Blacksmiths
• {p16} A Short Biography – Pa Collins
• {p18} From Ballylanders to Croke Park
• {p34} Kilflynn Church of Ireland ^[NIAH]

2007 Volume 4 Part 2 – Read Online

Table of Contents

• {p44} Index to Kilflynn Churchyard
• {p49} The Battle of Kilmallock ^{[Notes 1, 2 ]}
• {p54} Farewell to Limerick
• {p56} James Tobin’s Recollections of Kilfinane Past – 1983
• {p59} Celtic Ballintubber
• {p65} Ballylanders Parish Church ^[NIAH]
• {p70} Billy O’Reilly R.I.P
• {p71} Saved… by An Irishman wearing British Khaki ^[Note]
• {p73} The Holy Wells of County Limerick and also in the Barony of Coshlea
• {p88} The Well of the Omen

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2009 Volume 5 Part 1 – Read Online

Table of Contents

• {p1} Editorial
• {p3} John James Keane ^[Note]
• {p8} Hedge Schools in South East Co. Limerick
• {p11} St. Paul’s Secondary School, Kilfinane 1962
• {p12} Limekilns in the Coshlea Area of Co. Limerick
• {p17} John O’Mahony; Loughannana, Kilbeheny, Co. Limerick ^[Note]
• {p24} Superstitions
• {p27} Great Limerick Athletes – Dan Shanahan of Kilfinane ^{[Notes 1, 2 ]}
• {p30} Boyhood Memories
• {p31} A History of Darragh Creamery
• {p33} The Natural Heritage of Coshlea
• {p36} St. Andrews Church of Ireland, Kilfinane, Co. Limerick ^[NIAH]

2009 Volume 5 Part 2 – Read Online

Table of Contents

• {p45} St. Andrews Church of Ireland, Kilfinane, Co. Limerick – continued
• {p55} Willie Condon – Fenian and Land League Campaigner ^{[Notes 1, 2 ]}
• {p62} Glenosheen and its Beauty
• {p64} History of the Development of the Deerpark Herd
• {p68} Like Father, Like Son
• {p70} Selling Milk: Buying Butterfat
• {p73} My Home in Gleneffy
• {p74} Low Infants of 1949/50 Kilfinane National School
• {p77} Ballyorgan National School
• {p80} The Act of Union in Coshlea
• {p82} People from the Barony of Coshlea who died in the 1st World War ^{[Notes 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 ]}
• {p85} Garry Bouncers Ladies Tug-O-War
• {p87} Canavour Spring – Gift of God

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2013 Volume 6 Part 1 – Read Online

Table of Contents

• {p1} Editorial
• {p3} The Famine of ‘Black 47’ ^[Note]
• {p6} The making of replica Bronze Age vessels from the Cush, Co. Limerick site
• {p8} Roger O’Donnell: An Appreciation
• {p10} The Family Tree
• {p12} Michael J. Hennessy: an Appreciation
• {p14} Childhood memories of Ballintubber
• {p17} The period 1798 to 1923 – Kilfinane has a rich history
• {p22} Kilfinane Autumn Festival
• {p26} Galbally – My Own Place ^[Note]
• {p28} Great Limerick Athletes – Denis Carey of Kilfinane ^[Note]
• {p31} The Ballinvana Stakers
• {p34} Hurling – Blackrock 2010 ^[1993]
• {p37} Frank Roche of Elton ^{[Notes 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 ]}

2013 Volume 6 Part 2 – Read Online

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• {p42} Flanagan inspires Maurice to a lifetime of dedication to the Olympics ^[Note]
• {p44} To the memory of the “O’Neill Crowley Pipe Band”
• {p46} List of Shops, Pubs and Businesses in the Kilfinane area in the 50s and 60s
• {p53} Fr. John Ryan ^[Note]
• {p54} St. Patrick’s Church, Glenbrohane – a short history ^[NIAH]
• {p62} Folklore of Ballinlyna
• {p63} Members of Limerick County Council from the Kilfinane Coshlea area, 1899 to 2013
• {p72} The Clancys of Cush ^{[House 4]}
• {p79} Dancehalls in Ballyhoura Country in the 1950s and 60s
• {p82} Ardpatrick – a spot surrounded in romance

Overview –

Total pages: 504
Total articles: 178
Total contributors: 88

___Michael J Hennessy: 12 articles
___Roger O’Donnell: 11
___Davy Quish: 11
___Jim Neville: 9
___Denis O’Dwyer: 6
___Denis Martin, John O’Donnell, Maurice O’Regan, Mary F Ryan, Seamus Ryan: 4
___Jimmy Lehane, Matt O’Callaghan, John Ryan, Michael Tobin: 3
___Dan Barrett, Willie Carr, Jimmy Fitzgerald, Mannix Joyce, Pat McGrath, Seamus ___O’Ceallaigh, Liam O’Connor, M O h-Aonghusa, Jim Ryan: 2
___65 with 1. [5 articles had multi-authorship] [17 uncredited/unknown].