A Progressive 25 Card Drive in aid of Windgap Hurling Club takes place in Guinans on Friday 25th Oct. at 9.00pm sharp. All are welcome.
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WINDGAP PARISH NEWSLETTER 20 OCTOBER 2013
**************************************************************************************** MASSES DURING THE WEEK Monday & Friday in Dunamaggan at 9.30 a.m. First Friday mass in Windgap at 7.30 p.m. Wednesday & Thursday in St. Joseph’s Home, Kilmoganny at 12.10 p.m. Tuesday in Windgap at 9.30 a.m. Saturday: Kilmoganny at 7.00 p.m.; Sunday: Tullahought at 9.00 a.m.; Windgap at 10.00 a.m.; Dunamaggan at 11.00 a.m. Exposition of the Blessed Sacrament in St. Nicholas’s Church, Windgap each Monday from 10.00 a.m. – 8.00 p.m. Holy Hour each Wednesday from 3.00 - 4.00 p.m. St. Leonard’s Church, Dunamaggan. ***************************************************************************************** RECENTLY DECEASED: Pat Purcell, Kilmacoliver. ANNIVERSARIES: John Joe Egan, Paddy & Stastia Egan, Butlerswood, mass at 10.00 a.m. Sun 20th; Martin & Mary Burke, Knockeen, mass at 9.00 a.m. Sun 20th; Michael & Nora Barry, Mealoughmore, mass at 10.00 a.m. Sun 27th; Sean Ryan, Windgap, mass at 10.00 a.m. Sun. 27th. ***************************************************************************************** ANNIVERSARY MASSES: When more than one anniversary is included at a weekend mass, those prayed for will be included in masses during the following week. ***************************************************************************************** FEAST OF ALL SAINTS, Friday 1st November is a Holy Day of Obligation. Masses on Thursday 31st October and Friday 1st November will be at the usual weekend times. Also First Friday mass in Windgap at 7.30 p.m. will be month’s mind mass for Kathleen O’Donnell (nee Ryan). **************************************************************************************** FEAST OF ALL SOULS, Saturday 2nd November. Masses at: 9.30 a.m. in Dunamaggan; 11.00 a.m. in Tullahought and 12.10 p.m. in St. Joseph’s Home, Kilmoganny. **************************************************************************************** FIRST FRIDAY HOME VISITS will be a little later because of Holy day masses. **************************************************************************************** MISSION SUNDAY is this Sunday. Collection for the Missions will be taken up during second collection. **************************************************************************************** KILMOGANNY POST OFFICE will re-open, in temporary premises in Early November. **************************************************************************************** BUS TO KNITTING & STITCHING SHOW in the R.D.S. Dublin on Thursday 31st October. Further details from Maria Landy 051 – 648279; 087 – 9518384. **************************************************************************************** VARIETY CONCERT in aid of Community Water Scheme in Kenya Slums, Africa in The Springhill Court Hotel on Friday 25th October at 8.00 p.m. Admission €10. Door Prize and Raffle tickets available at the Springhill Court Hotel. **************************************************************************************** SOUTH KILKENNY HISTORICAL SOCIETY LECTURE: An Illustrated Introduction to the Photographic Work of Annie Brophy (to include material related to south Kilkenny) Speaker: Mr Donal Moore on Thursday, October 24th at 8.00 p.m. in Mullinavat Parish Hall (opposite church) Admission: €5 (members free) **************************************************************************************** PARISH PASTORAL COUNCIL MEETING will take place in the Parochial House, Windgap on Monday 28th October at 8.00 p.m. We are looking into starting a youth club in windgap and are having a first meeting on Wednesday 23rd at 7pm in the GAA club rooms. Martina who helps with start ups will be there with all information. We can have one for primary school or one for the older kids or both if enough interest.
JOE GRINSELL MEMORIAL: Thanks are extended to all who supported the recent fundraisers in aid of Carrick-on-Suir River Rescue. The tremendous response to the sponsored walk up Slievenamon and to all those who contributed to the auction night in Power’s Tullahought on Saturday night last where a few bargains were picked up. At the event our local auctioneer entertained us whilst also managing to get the best possible price through his encouragement of bidders that resulted in a tremendous outcome for this very good cause. The proceeds of all the efforts totalled €11,000 and the cheque for the amount was presented by Joes cousin Eddie Grinsell to Michael Hickey who accepted it on behalf of Carrick -on Suir River Rescue team.
CHARITIES On a busy weekend in the locality a Monster Auction was held in Powers of Tullahought on Saturday night in aid of the Carrick-on-Suir River Rescue. Also supporting the funds was a Cake sale in Tullahought community centre on Sunday morning. In Wibndagp a Trad for Trocaire Session took place in Guinans Lounge on Saturday evening. SCRAP COLLECTION: Windgap Hurling Club is running a Scrap Collection that will assist repairing the Ball Stop netting behind the goals. The event runs from now till the end of November. For more details contact Club Chairman PJ Egan or any member of the committee. All donations of scrap greatly appreciated. UP THE NIRE: Windgap Walkers plan on travelling to the Nire Valley on Sunday morning to join in the Comeragh Mountains annual Walking Festival. This is a great opportunity to see some of the best scenery in Co Waterford. All are welcome. Further details visit our website www.windgap.ie GALMOY WINDGAP; The sides final fixture for the season is at under twenty one level. ZAMBIA CLOTHES COLLECTION: Callan CBS is looking for donations of unwanted clothes, linen, books and shoes. All funds raised will be going towards the Zambia Immersion Project. Three staff members will accompany eleven 5th year students to Zambia next Easter where they will spend time helping in schools, orphanages and hospices. All donations will be greatly appreciated. Contact Darragh O'Shea at 0872609749 or leave donation bags in to Callan CBS. WALKING: The walking groups continue each Saturday morning where they meet at the lake in Windgap at 9.30am. and at the Community centre In Tullahought on Mondays and Thursdays at 7.30pm. All are welcome to take part at any place or time. POTTERY CLASSES: Adult Pottery classes commence in Camphill Kyle, on Tuesday 24th and run for eight weeks from 7:30-9:30pm. The courses cost € 100 (all materials included). In addition Children's Classes (age 6-12), start on Wednesday 25th of September and run for 5 weeks from 6pm-7pm, costing € 40 (all materials included). For more information or to book, contact Sonja on 086-3050428. HANDBALL NEWS: Windgap handball players had no luck in their All Ireland finals that were held in Cashel. Caoimhe O' Shea and her partner Aoife Walsh came up against a very strong Limerick pair in their U.15 Final. In the boys final Darragh O' Shea and Mark Dowling were defeated at U.17 level. GOLF NEWS: Callan Golf club New membership offer now available €499 until Jan 2015 Contact 056 7725136 CLUB NEWS: Windgap traveled to Graiguenamanagh o play the home side in the Valley of the Monks on Sunday morning in the Joe Walsh Cup quarter Final. After a 2-13 to 0-12 win they now play Mooncoin in the semi-final. PASTORAL COUNCIL: A change of personal at the Parish’s pastoral Council meeting recently saw Eileen Grace take over as Chairperson and Margaret Mackey as secretary. They replace outgoing Chairperson Ann Foley and secretary Helen Hawe. The remaining members of the committee are Joan Downey, Kitty Egan, Joan O’Gorman, Gabriel Hawe, Joan Watters, Helen, Fr Nicholas Flavin and Eamon Doyle SAINT STEPHENS DAY: Plans for the annual festival walk and activities are currently being put in place. GAME OF TIT AND TAT: Unusually seated on a fence post a sparrow hawk kept his eyes beaded in a south easterly direction despite ongoing distractions. Around its head over and back and up and down flew a member of the Magpie family. Unable to distract his more formidable foe the Sparrow Hawk took flight for the Ash tree that he was focussed on over a bank overlooking a dried up stream. In doing so he was followed immediately by his tormentor as their activities caused the start of the autumnal fall of leaves as they moved through its branches. Oblivious to the ongoing activities below the local swallows and house martins soared way above as a single white spot on the bank turned out to be one of many field mushrooms. Whatever the attraction or distraction the activities continued when they moved into a nearby sceach heavily laden with red berries in their game of follow the leader. BRIDGE CLASSES: Classes resume in St. Eoghan's Centre in Kilmoganny on Wednesday 2nd of October. For further information call 087 2557498. COMPLIMENTS: Thanks go to the many people who supplied material to this weeks notes and have helped to record the ongoing activities of the community. Contributors and Clubs are invited to email items for publication with a name and contact number to windgapnotes@gmail.com by Sunday evenings at 6pm. For all the local news, photographs and We are looking into starting a youth club in windgap and are having a first meeting on Wednesday 23rd at 7pm in the GAA clubrooms. Martina who helps with start ups will be there with all information. We can have one for primary school or one for the older kids or both if enough interest. If you are interested in getting involved please text Lena on 087-7789188 and I'll get back with location later. WINDGAP PARISH NEWSLETTER 13 OCTOBER 2013 **************************************************************************************** MASSES DURING THE WEEK Friday in Dunamaggan at 9.30 a.m. First Friday mass in Windgap at 7.30 p.m. No mass this Monday Wednesday & Thursday in St. Joseph’s Home, Kilmoganny at 12.10 p.m. Tuesday in Windgap at 9.30 a.m. Saturday: Kilmoganny at 7.00 p.m.; Sunday: Tullahought at 9.00 a.m.; Windgap at 10.00 a.m.; Dunamaggan at 11.00 a.m. Exposition of the Blessed Sacrament in St. Nicholas’s Church, Windgap each Monday from 10.00 a.m. – 8.00 p.m. Holy Hour each Wednesday from 3.00 - 4.00 p.m. St. Leonard’s Church, Dunamaggan. ***************************************************************************************** ANNIVERSARIES: Larry & Johanna Purcell, Bawnreigh, mass at 9.00 a.m. Sun. 13th; Sean Power, Knockroe, mass at 10.00 a.m. Sun. 13th. John Joe Egan, Butlerswood, mass at 10.00 a.m. Sun 20th. ***************************************************************************************** ANNIVERSARY MASSES: When more than one anniversary is included at a weekend mass, those prayed for will be included in masses during the following week. ***************************************************************************************** THANKS: Tullahought Ladies Guild would like to thank all who supported their Cake Sale last Sunday in aid of Carrick River Rescue. The amount collected amounted to €302. 50. **************************************************************************************** WINDGAP DEVELOPMENT GROUP REPORT: (1) The reply re lease of land for playground is awaited; (2) A Tús worker is now working in Windgap; (3) The Plans for the Community Centre will be presented at a Public Meeting on Tuesday 5th November at 8.00 p.m.; (4) The numerous activities undertaken during the past year were outlined; (5) The walkway from the Car park to the Walkway in Windgap is completed; (6) The stone with the Poem re Grotto has been situated at the entrance to the car park. **************************************************************************************** KILMOGANNY POST OFFICE will re-open, in temporary premises in Early November. **************************************************************************************** BUS TO KNITTING & STITCHING SHOW in the R.D.S. Dublin on Thursday 31st October. Further details from Maria Landy 051 – 648279; 087 – 9518384. **************************************************************************************** DATES FOR CONFIRMATION: Dunamaggan on Sunday 13th April; Windgap on Sunday 1st June. **************************************************************************************** CALLAN GOLF CLUB: New Membership Offer of €499 is now available up to January 2015. Contact Margaret 056 - 7725136 **************************************************************************************** THE MISCARAGE ASSOCIATION OF IRELAND will hold its first national support group meeting in Kilkenny on 17th October 2013, 7pm in St Patrick’s Parish Centre, Bohernatounish Road, Loughboy. This meeting, the first to be held outside of Dublin, will give an opportunity to all those affected by miscarriage to talk about and share their experience. The meeting will be co-ordinated by committee members of the association. ‘This meeting provides an opportunity for women and their partners to talk in a supportive environment about their experience,’ said Niamh Ryan, secretary of the Association. ‘Of course, people are under no obligation to talk and can find great comfort simply by listening to others talk about their own experience.’ A Book of Remembrance will also be available on the day for those who wish to make an entry in memory of the child they have lost through miscarriage. The Association, which celebrates 25 years in existence this year, provides support to all who have been affected by miscarriage through a telephone support service, monthly support meetings in Dublin’s Buswell’s Hotel, and an annual Service of Remembrance, which will take place this year on 10th November, at 3 pm in St Theresa’s church, Donore Avenue (off South Circular Road) Dublin 8. ***************************************************************************************** The Census of Ireland (1659), was also known as Petty's or Pender's Census. It provides townland census returns of the inhabitants of most of the country, It also gives the number of inhabitants and their racial classification, the returns supply the names of the principal occupiers, referred to as ‘Tituladoes’.
Far more interesting is the fact that it also gives the surnames and counts of the principal Irish families, by barony. The local records are actually for the Barony of Kells, but keep in mind the population in 1659 was likely one tenth of the current population, with just over half a million estimated from this census. The barony of Kells incorporated the following civil parishes, Killamery, Tullahought, Kilmoganny, Dunamaaggin. Kilkree, Ballytobin, Mallardstown and Kells. I have converted the names into the 21st century form where possible (likely due to 1659 government enumerator errors and the fact that Irish was the dominant language in this area, and names had not often really been translated to English). It is amazing that the names from this area feature so strongly 354 years later. The O'Shea's and Walsh's unsurprisingly fill the top two positions. Updated on October 15th 2013 with 1659 Map Hello.
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