Tralee & Dingle Narrow Gauge Railway Collection
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Mary Fitzgerald (b. 1933)
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Mary Fitzgerald (née Dunne) was reared on the foothills of Caherconree on the Dingle Peninsula, and she recalls her young days collecting barnacles, periwinkles and carrageen moss from the sea shore nearby. The local people of Camp and the local dancehall, known as Camp Hall, are recalled, and she explains that her grandfather, Mick Dunne, […]
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Tralee & Dingle Narrow Gauge Railway Collection
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Purchase the full Collection of 12 digitised recordings on DVD or USB Key for €50 The Tralee & Dingle Narrow Gauge Railway was established in 1891 and operated until 1953. It struck westwards from Tralee into the Dingle Peninsula, through Blennerville, Derrymore, Castlegregory Junction at Camp with a extension to Castlegregory. The main line continued […]
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Patrick Quirke (b. 1935)
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The Quirke family home is situated beside the old railway line. At one time Patrick Quirke’s maternal Greaney family were in residence, and the old building was originally thatched. Patrick begins by telling a story about an occasion when a spark from the train set the thatch ablaze in the 1920s. The house dates back […]
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Bart O’Shea (b. 1932)
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The ancestral O’Shea family home was situated in Derrymore, close to the narrow guage railway line which Bart O’Shea helped to dismantle in 1954. Bart O’Shea’s father Pat worked for the Co. Council in the nearby quarry in Derryquay. Bart followed him there to work, initially at drawing water from a local stream to the […]
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Maurice O’Donnell (b. 1932)
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Maurice O’Donnell grew up in Blennerville village, two doors away from the Station House. During that time it operated as a public house, and was to close in 1940. He recalls the names and occupations of the people of Blennerville in his youth. Mr. Moriarty who lived in a thatched cottage at The Point was […]
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John Knightly (b. 1920s) Part 1
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John Knightly’s father was Stationmaster in Annascaul for twenty years prior to his transfer to Banteer in Co. Cork and later to Castlemaine, prior to the closure of the narrow-gauge line in 1954. John recounts many stories about his time in Annascaul, including a fine description of being a passenger in the guard’s van on […]
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Maura Harcksen (b. 1943)
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David Moriarty operated the Lock Gates at The Point at the mouth of the canal to Tralee, as also did his father before him. David was the grandfather of Maura Harcksen and she explains that he died at a young age, leaving her grandmother, Ellen Moriarty, and two young sons and a daughter. The family […]
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Pat Griffin (b. 1929)
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There is a long tradition of helping the poor and needy in the Griffin family, and in West Kerry Pat Griffin worked as a Relieving Officer. His granduncle, known as Gerry “Buggy”, worked with Pat’s grandfather Dan at Dingle Poorhouse. Gerry “Buggy” was the driver of the horse -drawn ambulance for the Poorhouse and Dan […]
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Eileen Galvin (b. 1930)
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Eileen Kennedy grew up in the townland of Gurteens where she lived with her parents and six siblings in one section of a long thatched house. The Hanafin family of ten children and their parents also lived there. She recalls her schooldays when before leaving home she would churn the butter and then bring a […]
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Tony Barrett (b. 1943)
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Three generations of the Barrett family have lived and farmed the land in Clooncurra, Lispole. The old home was thatched originally, and several members of the family fell victim to tuberculosis resulting in the deaths of Tony Barrett’s grandmother and two of her children. Tony Barrett’s father, Johnny Barrett, also contracted the disease, but luckily […]
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John Knightly (b. 1920s) Part 2
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John Knightly has fond memories of occasions when he travelled as a youth on the long journey from Annascaul to Tralee on the narrow-gauge railway line and then on the main line to Mallow and onward to Banteer where his father was working as Stationmaster. He was allowed by the train drivers to travel at […]
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Peg Doyle (b. 1933)
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Raheen in Ventry was the childhood home place of Peg Doyle (née Kavanagh). Her grandparents were Kate Hickson of Lispole and Daniel Kavanagh, and they had ten children. Peg’s mother Nora married Joseph Kavanagh, and they had seven children. Her brother, who inherited the farm, had seven children, so the house was always filled with […]
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Tom Daly (b. 1930)
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The railway station at Castlegregory was a hive of activity during Tom Daly’s young days, and he describes in detail the train journey to Tralee at that time. He remembers helping the local farmers drive their cattle and pigs to the station after Fair Days in the village and explains that the railway opened up […]
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