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Listowel Thread

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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 51 ✭✭pinkyirl


    i'm from listowel & never heard of it being called 'main street' - that was always called 'the small square'

    any other listowellians agree?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 840 ✭✭✭SandhillRoad


    pinkyirl wrote:
    i'm from listowel & never heard of it being called 'main street' - that was always called 'the small square'

    any other listowellians agree?

    ______________________________________
    Hello PINKYIRL and welcome to the Listowel Forum.
    I am a Listowellian living in the USA.
    It is known by both names.
    I think if one was from the countryside they would know it as "MAIN STREET".
    If you were from the town you would know it as "The Small Square".
    Are you from the town?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,179 ✭✭✭snow scorpion


    Damn! Quiet in here, too.

    Maybe after the holidays settle down we'll see some more activity.


  • Registered Users Posts: 339 ✭✭Cherry Tree


    Guess what has just arrived in MAIN STREET? The premises previously known as Changes is now occupied by a local office of the Kerryman. I shall acquaint them of the existence of this and the Ballyb. thread and hopefully we will see a more diverse and lively debate in 2006. Happy New year to all the old Listowellians.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 840 ✭✭✭SandhillRoad


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    Guess what has just arrived in MAIN STREET? The premises previously known as Changes is now occupied by a local office of the Kerryman. I shall acquaint them of the existence of this and the Ballyb. thread and hopefully we will see a more diverse and lively debate in 2006. Happy New year to all the old Listowellians.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,179 ✭✭✭snow scorpion


    Guess what has just arrived in MAIN STREET? The premises previously known as Changes is now occupied by a local office of the Kerryman. I shall acquaint them of the existence of this and the Ballyb. thread and hopefully we will see a more diverse and lively debate in 2006. Happy New year to all the old Listowellians.

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    *goes to look at a map of Listowel to find Main Street*


    EDIT: Ah, Main Street is between Market Street and The Square. I've walked past where The Kerryman office is.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 840 ✭✭✭SandhillRoad


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    Guess what has just arrived in MAIN STREET? The premises previously known as Changes is now occupied by a local office of the Kerryman. I shall acquaint them of the existence of this and the Ballyb. thread and hopefully we will see a more diverse and lively debate in 2006. Happy New year to all the old Listowellians.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 840 ✭✭✭SandhillRoad


    Another old view of Listowel:
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    probably from Ballygrennan


  • Registered Users Posts: 339 ✭✭Cherry Tree


    Why do you think it is Listowel? I can't see anything to identify it as Listowel.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 840 ✭✭✭SandhillRoad


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    Why do you think it is Listowel? I can't see anything to identify it as Listowel.
    ________________________________________
    CHERRYTREE you have me wondering myself.This is a hand tinted photo:In the center background are the 2 Churches. on the left is the Castle ( black object).. You can see the Feale and the Island, probably the workhouse too.
    The bottom left says LISTOWEL and the bottom right says Co Kerry
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    right click on original photo and save and then magnify.
    ________________________________-
    There may be a black and white photo of this scene at the Arms Hotel on the walls


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 840 ✭✭✭SandhillRoad


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 840 ✭✭✭SandhillRoad


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 840 ✭✭✭SandhillRoad


    Now over 4000 views!!!!

    Are we all on vacation ?:) :):):)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 283 ✭✭reic


    I'm waiting for my next visit to Listowel, after the doldrums of the new year. Probably in 3 or 4 weeks. I've never seen Listowel in the frost, nice photos I'd say.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 840 ✭✭✭SandhillRoad


    Bring a chair, a homemade sandwich, some Farley's Rusks and a Nash's Lemonade.

    Enjoy and remember.



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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 840 ✭✭✭SandhillRoad


    This is a great site of note:

    http://www.mickeymacconnell.com/


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 840 ✭✭✭SandhillRoad


    Are there any websites out there where we can find more about Listowel and it's people? I have heard a Listowel man (Cyril Kelly who lived in Church St) many times on RTE Radio. You can access past episodes of the programme.When I think of the programme name I will post.Maybe someone can help me with this.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5 skyrider


    Hi, everyone, Great thread, have recently acquired the domain http://www.listowel.com, no plans for it at the moment but there is alot of inspiration here and any ideas would be welcome.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 840 ✭✭✭SandhillRoad


    Hello SKYRIDER.
    What are your connections to Listowel?Where are you based?


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5 skyrider


    Hi, just moved to Listowel from Tralee bout 8 years ago .......a blow in!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 38 Miss Cellaneous


    Good crack and good music if you want to listen. Sing song if you want to join in ! Think I'll look in there myself tonight


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 840 ✭✭✭SandhillRoad


    Welcome to the Forum.
    Enjoy the evening at John Bs.
    Reading in Kerryseye about the new statue erected to The Master


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 840 ✭✭✭SandhillRoad


    Here's looking at you, kid.cid003401c5dbd0a4872d10c37a174.gifBetween the Listowel and Ballybunion forums over11,000 Views !!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 840 ✭✭✭SandhillRoad


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 840 ✭✭✭SandhillRoad


    Sunday, February 26, 2006 8:30 AM
    Paddy was driving down the street in a sweat because
    he had an important
    meeting and couldn't find a parking place.

    Looking up to heaven he said, "Lord take pity on me.
    If you find me a
    parking place I will go to Mass every Sunday for the
    rest of me life and
    give up me Irish Whiskey".

    Miraculously, a parking place appeared.

    Paddy looked up again and said, "Never mind, I found
    one."

    ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

    Father Murphy walks into a pub in Donegal, and says to
    the first man he
    meets, "Do you want to go to heaven?"

    The man said, "I do Father."

    The priest said, "Then stand over there against the
    wall."

    Then the priest asked the second man, "Do you want to
    got to heaven?"

    "Certainly, Father," was the man's reply. "Then stand
    over there against the
    wall," said the priest.

    Then Father Murphy walked up to O'Toole and said, "Do
    you want to go to
    heaven?

    O'Toole said, "No, I don't Father.

    The priest said, "I don't believe this. You mean to
    tell me that when you
    die you don't want to go to heaven?"

    O'Toole said, "Oh, when I die, yes. I thought you were
    getting a group
    together to go right now."

    ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

    O'Toole worked in the lumber yard for twenty years and
    all that time he'd
    been stealing the wood and selling it. At last his
    conscience began to
    bother him and he went to confession to repent.

    "Father, it's 15 years since my last confession, and
    I've been stealing wood
    from the lumber yard all those years," he told the
    priest.

    "I understand my son," says the priest. "Can you make
    a Novena?"

    O'Toole said, "Father, if you have the plans, I've got
    the lumber."

    ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

    Paddy was in New York He was patiently waiting, and
    watching the traffic cop
    on a busy street crossing. The cop stopped the flow of
    traffic and shouted,
    "Okay pedestrians". Then he'd allow the traffic to
    pass. He'd done this
    several times, and Paddy still stood on the sidewalk.

    After the cop had shouted "Pedestrians" for the tenth
    time, Paddy went over
    to him and said, "Is it not about time ye let the
    Catholics across?"

    +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

    Gallagher opened the morning newspaper and was
    dumbfounded to read in the
    obituary column that he had died. He quickly phoned
    his best friend Finney.

    "Did you see the paper?" asked Gallagher. "They say I
    died!!"

    "Yes, I saw it!" replied Finney. "Where are ye callin'
    from?"

    +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

    An Irish priest is driving down to New York and gets
    stopped for speeding in
    Connecticut. The state trooper smells alcohol on the
    priest's breath and
    then sees an empty wine bottle on the floor of the
    car. He says, "Sir, have
    you been drinking?"

    "Just water," says the priest.

    The trooper says, "Then why do I smell wine?"

    The priest looks at the bottle and says, "Good Lord!
    He's done it again!"

    ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

    Walking into the bar, Mike said to Charlie the
    bartender, "Pour me a stiff
    one - just had another fight with the little woman."

    Oh yeah?"said Charlie "And how did this one end?"

    "When it was over," Mike replied, "she came to me on
    her hands and knees.

    "Really," said Charles, "now that's a switch! What did
    she say?"

    She said, "Come out from under the bed, you little piece of
    chicken s**t "


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 840 ✭✭✭SandhillRoad


    The latest from the KERRYMAN:-

    AN ELDERLY couple living in Listowel town were left terrified by a late-night vandalism assault in the early hours of Saturday morning.

    The Kerryman understands that the incident was carried out by a drunken gang who went on a rampage around the town and damaged a number of other private and commercial buildings.

    This latest incident has added further fuel to a growing campaign in Listowel to have close circuit television installed in the town as a security measure.

    The incident, which is currently under investigation by gardaí, happened in Church Street early on Saturday morning, and according to concerned neighbours of the couple, is anything but an isolated matter.

    They say that acts of late-night mindless vandalism is fast becoming the norm in the town.

    ___________________________________________

    Is this what Listowel has come to?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 8 jimm8242


    Is the store called "Crowley's" just off the town square still there? As I remember it was somewhere close to John B. Keane's place.

    We'd come into town from Ballybunion, turn right onto a long wide street, (Tuesday was market day and the market was on the right.)

    At the end of that long street the Irish Tourist Board had on office at the corner on the right hand side of the street.

    Turn right at the Irish Tourist Board onto a short narrow street ... :confused: ... I think that's where Keane's and Crowley's was.

    And then turn left to the Church square/town square.

    That's about all I remember. :(
    CROWLEYS LONG GONE JOHN B KEANS STILL THERE GREAT FOR THE CRAIC AND A GOOD PINT MARKET PLACE MOVED OUT THE TRALEE ROAD TOURIST MOVED TO ANOTHER LOCATION I THINK IT'S IN THE SMALL SQUARE


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,179 ✭✭✭snow scorpion


    jimm8242 wrote:
    CROWLEYS LONG GONE JOHN B KEANS STILL THERE GREAT FOR THE CRAIC AND A GOOD PINT MARKET PLACE MOVED OUT THE TRALEE ROAD TOURIST MOVED TO ANOTHER LOCATION I THINK IT'S IN THE SMALL SQUARE

    Thanks, Jim. Or "Jimeen" as the Kerry folk say.

    It's been a long time since I was in Listowel. I hope to get back there someday soon.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 8 jimm8242


    was jack barry the blacksmith
    jimm


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 8 jimm8242


    Jack Barry was black smith and Tommy Sheehy lived up the road a bit Mrs Hussey lived next door to T.Sheehy and she taught school at derrindagh school


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 840 ✭✭✭SandhillRoad


    jimm8242 wrote:
    jack barry im was black smith and tooy sheehy lived up the road a bit mrs hussy lived next door to t sheehy and she taught school at derrindafh school
    _________________
    I remember there was a boy , I think from England,who visited Jack Barry and his wife for the summer holidays, back in the late 50s or 60s.
    Was Jack Barrys and Tommy Sheehys houses close to the road? Tommy was a single man and tall, if my memory is right.
    Our farm was close to Jack Barry's, but set back , you had to go up a lane to get to the farmhouse . The house was on the left( gable end to the bohereen) and The sheds ( on the other side of the bohereen )were to the right of the gable end of the house. I last saw the house in 1984, still have pictures of it.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 8 jimm8242


    mot sure if i got this right I'm new at this. Sorry i only know a few names


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 8 jimm8242


    I can't recall jack having any visitors. but yes i remember the SHEEHY house set back about 1000 yds from main road


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 8 jimm8242


    next time I'm in ny i'll be sure to pay you a visit. Don't get there to often anymore


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 8 jimm8242


    next time I'm in ny i'll be sure to pay you a visit. Don't get there to often anymore


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 27 warboy


    jimm8242 wrote:
    mot sure if i got this right I'm new at this. Sorry i only know a few names

    I think this was taken in Kilworth (or Kilworth Camp) in Cork, 1955....details to be confirmed. Listowel had just won a Munster competition...more info to follow.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 840 ✭✭✭SandhillRoad


    What babies are really thinking.

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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 840 ✭✭✭SandhillRoad


    Listowel forum has now over 5000 views ! Thank you all.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,179 ✭✭✭snow scorpion


    warboy wrote:
    (assuming you've got a web server attached?)

    :confused: I've really got to learn how this intraweb thing works. :D


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 840 ✭✭✭SandhillRoad


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    Let's have some old photos to keep us guessing


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 840 ✭✭✭SandhillRoad


    Come on lads, we know you are out there !
    Remember we were not even 10 then and still in short pants!
    Maybe Tadgh and Ned had long pants, as their dads were in the clothing business .
    Remember our 1st Communion breakfast at Eileen Quirkes in Church St ?




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    Happy Saint Patricks Day to the Class of '57.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 840 ✭✭✭SandhillRoad




    ***********************************************

    March 17th 2006



    Happy Saint Patrick's Day.



    Beannachtai na Feile Padraig.




    *****************************************


  • Registered Users Posts: 339 ✭✭Cherry Tree


    Go mbeirimid beo ar an am seo arís.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 840 ✭✭✭SandhillRoad


    He played for the ASHES !


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 840 ✭✭✭SandhillRoad


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 840 ✭✭✭SandhillRoad


    The Ashes Team
    Some are still in Listowel !!



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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 27 warboy


    This is something done a while back so is out of date.

    http://uk.geocities.com/wuckley/ListowelMapZoom3.html

    I'll update it soon.


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