All Take Notice!, a publication about Pound Road, will be launched at 2pm this Sunday at the Garda Eugene Leonard Memorial Family Fun Day at Castleisland Desmonds GAA Club grounds.
A production of Castleisland District Heritage, the publication is designed as a tribute to the life and times of this historic part of town before all trace of it was removed in the 1960s.
Mikey Conway to Launch
The book will be officially launched by the area’s most senior citizen Michael ‘Mikey’ Conway.
Mikey was always willing to help out when people came looking for information on the area and he has appeared on television a couple of times doing just that.
I was asked to ’round-up’ a few local people by the Cork based Fore-Front TV crew in the run-up to the making of the Spillane an Fánaí series and it’s hard to believe that it was made a decade and a bit ago last month.
Bell Ringing Demonstration
For the Castleisland segment of the series Mikey gave a demonstration and description of the bell ringing or town crier trade that was so much part of his family’s history and way of life.
It was a skill that followed them from their origins in Caherciveen. It was taken up here in Castleisland by Mikey’s father – also Mikey and by his brother Charlie.
Mikey was a kind of first sub town crier and he’d stand in if his father or brother weren’t available.
Nationwide Calling
Farther back again, to 2002 and RTÉ wanted to film a piece on The Kerryman centenary book, Images and Chronicles which was published earlier that year. Reporter Marie Mularkey rang looking for a knowledgeable and suitable person to fill her and her viewers in on the history of Pound Road – and guess who filled the slot with aplomb?
The programme concentrated on articles from Dingle, Killarney and Castleisland which were included in the publication.
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