Fáilte and welcome to the Barryroe Community Website
This website offers to:
- List Local Events
- List Local Organisations and Businesses in the Directory
- Publish Community News
- Build a library of interesting local History
- Share the local Nature
Please do Add an Event or Add Your Listing
The Barryroe Friendship Club resumes after the summer break
New members are most welcome
Fri 9 Oct 2026
Sat 10 Oct 2026
Sat 17 Oct 2026
Sun 18 Oct 2026
8:00pm
P72 PY13
A Comedy Play by Neil Simon
By Denis O’Regan
Dolphin DNA from years ago!
Last week a research paper was published on 14 August 2026 which describes the findings regarding a genetic study of the three distinct groups of Bottlenose Dolphins around Ireland namely the Shannon Estuary, Coastal and Offshore populations.
This study included the known five solitary dolphins of which Fungie was probably the most well-known. DNA samples were collected from four of them but the research began just after Fungie was last seen in October 2020.
In July 2021 I happened to be aboard the Celtic Mist for a week surveying the genetically distinct Bottlenose Dolphins populating the Shannon Estuary and nearby locations.
Denis with Fungie in 1988
Southern Star – 4 September 1937
Sixty-Year Old Epic of the Sea
Courtmacsherry Fishermen’s Thrilling Escape
Survivor’s Story
(From our Special Representative)
A sixty-year old epic of the sea is recalled by the death of Mr. John Courtney (“Johnny O”), which was recorded in the “Courtmacsherry Clippings” in last week’s issue.
Those far off days were a halcyon time for the fishing industry when our Southern waterways harboured hundreds of craft manned by sturdy weather-beaten fishermen who extracted a lucrative living from the deep.
Courtmacsherry was then one of the leading centres of the industry and its boats and boatmen were well-known from Dunmore East to Dingle.
The thrilling episode in which eight Courtmacsherry fishermen were involved, occurred in April 1878, and of those concerned, only one survives – Mr. Timothy Keohane, now residing at Lislee, whom our representative interviewed, and who told the story of the happening with a clarity and expressiveness remarkable for a man of his 84 years. The names of the other seven men were – Jeremiah O’Driscoll, captain and owner of the fishing boat “Alma”; Thomas Jeffers, Pat Walsh, Pat Minihane, Larry O’Neill, John Courtney and Timothy Dormey, the boy.
Main-Sail Carried Away
The “Alma” left Courtmacsherry on a Monday in April of the year mentioned and proceeded to the fishing grounds off Baltimore, where the nets were set. On Thursday night, a violent North-East gale sprang up, and the nets were torn away while the mizzen mast and sail were also carried overboard. The small craft was at once whirled before the gale, and it was fortunate that a small sail, belonging to the main-mast, was left intact. This the crew set and, with a silent prayer for deliverance, they turned the nose of the storm-tossed “Alma” into the wallowing waves and adopted the only course open – to run before the storm.
How did the Barryroe Community Website begin?
Denis O'Regan, founder of Faithful.ie has been developing websites since 1998. To put that into perspective four years earlier at the beginning of 1994 the total number of websites on planet earth was 623! In 2003 based in the UK, Denis formed the IT company Easykey. Denis and Carol and two dogs Benny and Chloe arrived in 2015 to Barryroe. During the COVID pandemic he developed a website for the parish of Barryroe with the initial service of providing livestream Mass for the local community. In the following months the company Faithful.ie was established specifically providing smart website solutions for Faith Communities.
See Faithful.ie
On Sunday 26 April 2026 the Barryroe Community website was launched. Initially the purpose was to List Local Events. This quickly expanded to:
- Building a library of interesting local History
- Listing Local Organisations and Businesses in the Directory
- Sharing the local Wildlife and Nature
Denis O'Regan
How is the website funded?
All costs for this website are sponsored by Faithful.ie and is provided for free to the local community.