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
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A Comedy Play by Neil Simon
The Barryroe Friendship Club resumes after the summer break
New members are most welcome
By Denis O'Regan
This is a Black-tailed Godwit (Limosa limosa)
I took these photos on the muddy sea shore by the town of Clonakilty in November. The Godwits are winter visitors from Iceland and live up to their Latin name Limosa means mud so they are actually named ‘Mud mud’!
It's the perfect name describing their behaviour as they wade amongst the muddy bubbles. They probe with their long straight and stout beak feasting on invertebrates, including bivalves, polychaete worms and shore crabs.
Black-tailed Godwit (Limosa limosa)
Tom Maguire, son of coastguard William, was born in the coastguard station, Courtmacsherry in 1911 and lived there until the age of ten. The family moved to England in 1921. He emigrated from England to New Zealand in 1953.
Tom Maguire recorded several audio tapes of his recollections of his time in courtmacsherry for his sons, Gary, Danny and Tom. They were recorded between the years 1973 and 1975.
I was born on the 17th of July 1911 in the house in which we lived at Courtmacsherry, Co. Cork, Ireland. I don’t know the population of the town, but I imagine it was and probably still is somewhere about 800. The last time we went there in 1950, which was thirty-nine years after I was born, I couldn’t see any difference whatever. I can’t recall seeing even one new house. It was exactly the same as when we lived there.
Courtmacsherry Coastguard Station
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.