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 Show held on Saturday 11 July was blessed with sunshine
Here is a selection of pictures and a video created by Denis O'Regan
Watch the Video below
The Barryroe Show 2026
Courtmacsherry Biodiversity Action Plan
Nature Memory Archive
Walk, draw and share memories of favourite spots past and present
Free Event
in aid of
Courtmacsherry Harbour Lifeboat
Tea/Coffee
Homemade Cakes
Raffle
Lifeboat Souvenirs
Sea Songs
Canto Community Choir perform as part of the Courtmacsherry 50th Harbour Festival
by Denis O'Regan
The Fulmar (Northern Fulmar - Fulmarus glacialis) Irish: Fulmaire is a fascinating bird
What are the origins of the name?
The name Fulmar is derived from two Old Norse words - fúll = “foul” and már = “gull” refers to the stinking stomach oil it produces.
Stinky Oil
This has several functions. Firstly It is an extremely energy-rich food they can regurgitate on the wing as sustenance on amazing long flights as far as 800km. This rich oil is also fed to their young.
The Fascinating Fulmar
In December 1701 the slave ship, “Amity”, owned by the Royal African Company and bound from Guinea to London was blown off course in a severe Atlantic storm and ended up being wrecked off the Seven Heads at Dunworley
The “Amity” was a large ship, believed to have been ninety-feet in length. She was carrying a cargo of ivory and a hardwood from the African Padauk tree known as camm-wood. She struck a reef in Dunworley Bay, the ship was pounded by the relentless Atlantic storm until she broke up and all hands on board, bar one negro cabin boy, were lost.
It is not know how many crew were on board the vessel, but a ship of that size would normally have had fifty crew to man the vessel. The only name known was that of the captain whose surname was Phaxton.
Amity wreck
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.