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Gormú - join us for daily mini adventures with a touch of dúchas 🏊‍♀️🏃‍♂️🚶‍♀️ 🚴‍♀️ Team adventure challenges starting in Cork winter '24.

[RTÉ Nationwide @RTENationwide]

Our journey along the @wildatlanticway continues as we hear stories from west Cork. We take a bike tour which is combined with Irish folklore. #RTÉNationwide, Friday 29th November on @RTEOne at 7pm. @GormuAR @Failte_Ireland @DiscoverIreland @SkibbereenIRL @kinsale_ie @Corkcoco

[Gougane Barra Hotel @gouganebarra]

Aurora an Ghugáin
#GouganeBarra #Auroraborealis

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While this account suggests a Norman-Gaelic origin for the surname with it coming from Buaidh Baudekin ???

https://t.co/vZNXUJ6vyW

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There’s a new TV series on Netflix set in our local village Bréantrá or Union Hall.
In the series, the fictional village is called
Bodkin.
It got us wondering, what if this was a real Irish placename?
Could it have derived from Bod Cionn?
#funnyplacenames

[Gormú @GormuAR]

Joking aside, there is actually a Bodkin placename in Ireland and it’s in Co. Galway.
It’s said to derive from the Norman surname de Bodekin.

https://t.co/gRwKk6jPGi

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In Irish folklore, all the fires in Ireland were extinguished on Bealtaine and relight from a fire on this hill

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Cnoc Uisnigh/Ushnagh Hill | https://t.co/82bLmPnMqk https://t.co/NvpC8RbKRk

[Coolim Books @CoolimBooks]

Published in thirteen volumes between 1993 and 2007, the Mizen Journal was rightly known for the high standard of the articles they contained. A selection of these Journals are now available via Coolim Books. See https://t.co/o7A3SUa5i9

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These are Laethanta na Bó Riach or the days of the brindled cow
https://t.co/E7yD0ylMKB

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@intothewild45 Put a beart of straw into the pond and it will clear up the algae in no time.
It doesn’t need to be much but tie it up with string so you can retrieve it afterwards.

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Irish humour at it's very best! 😂😂😂

[Tadhg Fleming @tadhgfleming_]

Here is the longer & original version of me shoving my fadder into a balloon 🤣💚☘️

[Skibbereen Historical @SkibbHistory]

‘The Skellig Lists: A Folk Tradition concerning Marriage’, by Shane Lehane is our next talk on Wednesday 31 January at the GAA Pavilion at 8pm. A really interesting subject! All are welcome.

[The Irish at War @irelandbattles]

#OnThisDay 1661 Oliver Cromwell's body was exhumed, dragged through the streets of London, hanged in chains at Tyburn, beheaded & his body thrown into a pit. His head displayed on a pole on the roof of Westminster Hall until 1685.

A great day for the parish.

#Ireland #History

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Muine Uí Mhothlacháin is our local 'money' placename and it can be interpreted as the thicket of the Uí Mhothlacháin family.
It was later anglicised to Moneyvollahane and it is where @CastlehavenGAA have their main pitch.

[The Northern Ireland Place-Name Project @placenamesni]

The element money may represent two different words in Irish place-names: muine‘brake or thicket’ and mónaidh, an oblique form of móin, ‘moor or bog’. There is also another word monadh ‘mountain, heath, etc.’ which is normally found in Scotland. https://t.co/fD3Kn7MofR

[Smuggling & Dark History @IrishSmuggling]

A Leper hole at Timoleague Friary in Cork, the hole allowed Lepers from a nearby colony to observe mass and to receive sacraments that were passed out on a spoon to avoid contagion.

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Some views from yesterday’s walk including clip of Tráigh Liceach.
This morning is walk 3 of 12 and we depart from the back entrance of Abbeystrowry Graveyard at 10:30am.

Book at
https://t.co/a8Q6vnXe7F
All proceeds to Skibb St Vincent de Paul

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@leesonl @neilojim1972 Hi Lorraine!
All’s well in the ‘Haven this winter, especially since we won the Munster club championship earlier this month.
FYI, we upgraded our bike tour to e-bikes this summer so if you are down in 2024 - we’d love to take you out.
Wishing you and yours a Happy New Year! C

[Conor Ó Buachalla @conorobuachalla]

10:30am departure this morning from The Leap Inn, Leap Co Cork
All proceeds to Skibbereen St Vincent’s de Paul
Book at
https://t.co/Utq0B1pu5w

#wrenboywatch

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Really look forward to seeing this!

[Skibbereen Heritage @skibbheritage]

Coming Soon!!
A West Cork Genealogy Podcast just for you .....
Margaret our genealogist has been sharing her extensive knowledge with our manager/curator Terri
More info just after Christmas....
#westcork #irishgenealogy @purecork @corkcoco @Irish_Genealogy

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An Drom Beag today on the #WinterSolstice #drombegatonecircle