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A Famine Village

Members of the local community gathered at the unveiling of the 'Village of Meenies' information panel. The site of the ...

Windmill Hill/The Rock – Windmill Lane

Skibbereen is one of the most significant towns in Ireland in terms of its Famine heritage; it  truly was the 'ground ...

Windmill Hill/The Rock – Skibbereen’s Origins

The earliest known settlement in the area we now call Skibbereen, the Gortnaclohy McCarthy Reagh Castle, once stood c. 1 ...

Windmill Hill/The Rock – Civil War Shooting

Windmill Hill/The Rock was the site of a fatal shooting during the Irish Civil War in 1922, when the IRA ...

Windmill Hill/The Rock – The Great Famine

Skibbereen is one of the most significant towns in Ireland in terms of its Famine heritage; it truly was the ...

Windmill Hill/The Rock – ‘Rock-Cut Houses’

Intriguing rock-cut structures on the Windmill Hill/The Rock were excavated over a six-week period in 2015 by staff and students ...

Lough Ine (Lough Hyne)Poem

All West Cork children of a certain era can quote one poem by rote from their school days - the ...

The McCarthy Excavation ‘Backstory’

Research by the academics from Maryland University, Professor Stephen Brighton and his PhD student Drew Webster, tells us that two ...

The Provincial Bank & the Great Famine

This building was once the site of the Provincial Bank of Ireland and its manager in the 1840s, JW Clerke, ...

First Land Survey of Ireland

The 17th century was an extremely turbulent time in Ireland. Post the Battle of Kinsale in 1601, resentment festered amongst ...
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