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LATEST NEWS FROM LYRE Updated September 8 2019
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The album includes ‘The Road John Murphy Made,’ the winning song in this year’s Sean McCarthy Ballad Competition. That song is set in the 1750s connecting the butter trade to the slave trade.
The Album is available from Joe
Harrington, Lyreacrompane, Co. Kerry Tel: 087 285 3570 It is also available on line at www.kerrymusic.com and on Spotify.The album is now in the following shops. Caball’s Tralee The proceeds from the album go towards the Fund for the renovation of the old Glen Schoolhouse in Lyreacrompane as a Heritage Centre for the general Stacks Mountains area. This community project aims to preserve and highlight the Heritage, Culture and Environment of the Stacks Mountains and involve the community in a manner that will lessen social isolation. Our fundraising efforts have gone well to date and we have set ourselves a further target of €10,000. Sales of the album will be part of meeting this goal, so we are hoping that people will rally round and buy the Album. More information on the Heritage House Project can be found on the Heritage page of www.lyreacrompane.com On the Lyreacrompane Heritage Trail The Lyreacrompane Heritage Group regularly get enquiries from people seeking their roots or wishing to know more about some aspect of the heritage, culture or environment of the general Lyreacrompane area. This week we had a visit from Sue Hurley from Australia seeking information on her ancestors who had been landlords in north Kerry, including Lyreacrompane from 1857 to 1911. The houses associated with the Hurlys are Fenit House, Glenfuff House in Kielduff, Glendalough House hear Glenbeigh and the now demolished Bridge House in Tralee - the Garda Station now stands on the site. Sue is pictured here in front of the Glen Schoolhouse in Lyreacrompane. This building, now a protected structure, was handed over to the community by John Hurly for use as a schoolhouse in 1872 and the Lyreacrompane Heritage Group is working to have it renovated as a Heritage House for the Stacks Mountains area. (To go to Heritage page click here) During her visit members of the Heritage Group accompanied Sue as she sought out places connected with her roots. First stop was the Glen Schoolhouse.
including John Hurly of Fenit House - known as the landlord of Lyreacrompane
with Sue and Kay O'Leary of the Lyreacrompane Heritage Group.
Birthday Celebrated in Lyreacrompane
Down the years the Lyreacrompane Heritage
Group have given talks to groups on the heritage, culture and
the environment of Lyreacrompane but it was a first when Cáit
O'Shea from Lahard, Beaufort decided that for her special
birthday all she wanted was a tour/talk on Lyreacrompane. Cáit's
daughter, Doreen, contacted Joe Harrington, Chairperson of the
Heritage Group, to organise the event. Today, Monday September
10th Cáit accompanied by her husband Tony and daughter Doreen
Moore from Tralee spent a couple of hours in the area with tour
guide, Joe Harrington. Proceeds from 5K/10K Walk/Run
Celebrations in Lyreacrompane - Post Office
remains open. The general Lyreacrompane Community is delighted that our Post Office remains open and Johnny Nolan is still behind that counter providing a valuable service in our community. If the Post Office had gone the shop would have been unlikely to survive. Apart from convenience, the Post Office is a point at which people meet and its closure would have meant an increase in social isolation. Our community has ducked a bullet and we need to really take to heart the urgent need to support our Post Office and Shop. We have a second bite of the cherry so please encourage your friends and neighbours to use the facility. It definitely is a case of use or lose it. We would like to make a special appeal to
people who used Duagh, Knocknagoshel, Ballymacelligott and
Banemore Post Offices to now use Lyreacrompane Post Office
whenever possible.  to do with Lyreacrompane Just click on the link
The Dan Paddy Andy Festival Bog Walk 2015 was
videoed by Irish TV
Joe's Country Kingdom 
Click on the following link to listen to Joe's Country Kingdom with Joe Harrington broadcast live from Lyreacrompane on Tuesdays, 9 to 11pm and Saturdays, 9pm to 11pm on internet radio. www.irishcountrymusicradio.com
At the Ploughing at Causeway
Announcing Glenduff Manor
There is general delight in the Lyreacrompane area at the news that Glenduff House is to be extended as a hotel. The historic building was once in the hands of the Hurly Family who were the landlords of Lyreacrompane from 1857 to 1911. There has been a shortage of accommodation for visitors and exiles who visit this general area. The best of luck to Michael O’Malley and his team with their ambitious project which we are sure will be a great and convenient venue for locals and those visiting our place. The new venue will be called Glenduff Manor and will be officially opened on Saturday, January 21 at 12.30pm. Guarding local resources Guard What We Have: It is worth considering the important things we have in our community. These include our School, Post Office, Community Centre, Festival and the various small businesses. It is vital that we continue to support the things that makes and keeps us a vibrant community. Let us appreciate the things we have and work individually and collectively to maintain, extend and improve them. There are a lot of things working against small rural communities like ours and we all need to think of the bigger picture so as to protect what we have. No one else is going to do that for us. |
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