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
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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)
Girlie Holly (nee O’Donovan) was born at Glasheen in Cork City in 1915
She married Joe Holly in 1945 and died in her 91st year in 2006. From the age of eleven, until her death, she spent her holidays in Courtmacsherry. In her late eighties, she wrote a memoir of her youth. This is the chapter she wrote on holidaying in Courtmacsherry.
Where we stayed in Courtmac
I think we came to Courtmac first in 1926. Lena worked with Kathleen Donovan from Courtmacsherry and it was through this connection that we first came. The first house we stayed in belonged to Thady O’Donovan (always known as Thady the Guard because he was the Guard on the Courtmacsherry train). Billy and Chrissie Murphy now occupy this house. Thady was Kathleen Donovan’s father and grandfather to Una Cox. The following year we stayed in Annie O’Driscolls. In each of these houses, the family made some of the rooms available to us, my mother would buy the food and it was cooked for us.
Courtmacsherry Regatta
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.
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