Some Memorial Cards, Durrus, Kilcrohane and Bantry from early 20th century to 1958.

Some Memorial Cards, Durrus, Kilcrohane and Bantry from early 20th century to 1958.

Memorial Cards, Durrus, Kilcrohane and Bantry from early 20th century to 1958.

Memorial Cards, Durrus, Kilcrohane and Bantry from early 20th century to 1958.

These Record deaths in Durrus, Kilcrohane, Bantry from the early 20th century to 1958.  I have put in  back up info and in a number of cases newspaper obits.  The last is Master Hurley, Kilcrohane, died aged 79 in 1958.  James O’Mahony, KIlcrohane mentioned to me that he had done a lot to encourage the planting of pines on the peninsula.  An English Lady had a house in Ahakista maybe the one Graham Norton has now and propagated 3 varieties of pine trees.  Oral tradition may be wrong here. The lady who in the 1930s propagated the pines was probably Kitty Hayes who ran the Ahakista Hotel from about 1931 to the early 1950s when she set up what Sid now known as the time hut. Earlier to about 1903 Caroline Isabella Rice who. was born in Kerry ran the hotel. She would leave them outside her gate.  The combined efforts are still evident all over the peninsula.  If anyone else has memorial cards I will happily include.

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