Listowel Thread

pinkyirl

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

any other listowellians agree?

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?

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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?

snow scorpion

Damn! Quiet in here, too.

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

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.

SandhillRoad

Cherry Tree wrote:

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.

snow scorpion

Cherry Tree wrote:

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.

*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.

SandhillRoad

Cherry Tree wrote:

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.

SandhillRoad

Another old view of Listowel:

probably from Ballygrennan

Cherry Tree

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

SandhillRoad

Cherry Tree wrote:

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

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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.
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There may be a black and white photo of this scene at the Arms Hotel on the walls

SandhillRoad

Hope you have your sound on for this.



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Now over 4000 views!!!!

SandhillRoad wrote:

Hope you have your sound on for this.



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SandhillRoad wrote:

Now over 4000 views!!!!

Are we all on vacation ?:)

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.

SandhillRoad

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

Enjoy and remember.



Are your speakers on ??

http://www.jacquielawson.com/viewcard.asp?code=VS37713695

SandhillRoad

This is a great site of note:

http://www.mickeymacconnell.com/

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.

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.

SandhillRoad

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

skyrider

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

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

SandhillRoad

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

SandhillRoad

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

SandhillRoad

Come on,join in !

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."

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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!"

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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 "

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.

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Is this what Listowel has come to?

jimm8242

snow scorpion wrote:

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 ... ... 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

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.

jimm8242

was jack barry the blacksmith
jimm

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

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

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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.

jimm8242

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

jimm8242

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

jimm8242

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

jimm8242

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

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.

SandhillRoad

What babies are really thinking.

SandhillRoad

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

warboy

skyrider wrote:

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.

A simple suggestion to start with would be to put the following links on listowel.com (assuming you've got a web server attached?)

http://www.listowel.ie
http://www.iol.ie/~coganj/
http://www.listowelraces.ie/
http://www.writersweek.ie/
http://homepage.eircom.net/~lartiguemonorail/
http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=267053
http://www.listowelemmets.com/
http://www.listowelfoodfair.com/
http://www.listowelsportscentre.com/
http://www.stjohnstheatrelistowel.com/
http://www.listowelonline.com/ or http://www.claneire.com/connected/default.asp?com=listowel
http://www.kerrywritersmuseum.com/

http://www.mountriverslistowel.com/
http://www.listowelarms.com/
http://www.listowelautos.ie/contentv3/


Up to you of course.

W

snow scorpion

warboy wrote:

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

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

SandhillRoad

Let's have some old photos to keep us guessing

SandhillRoad

warboy wrote:

A simple suggestion to start with would be to put the following links on listowel.com (assuming you've got a web server attached?)

http://www.listowel.ie
http://www.iol.ie/~coganj/
http://www.listowelraces.ie/
http://www.writersweek.ie/
http://homepage.eircom.net/~lartiguemonorail/
http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=267053
http://www.listowelemmets.com/
http://www.listowelfoodfair.com/
http://www.listowelsportscentre.com/
http://www.stjohnstheatrelistowel.com/
http://www.listowelonline.com/ or http://www.claneire.com/connected/default.asp?com=listowel
http://www.kerrywritersmuseum.com/

http://www.mountriverslistowel.com/
http://www.listowelarms.com/
http://www.listowelautos.ie/contentv3/


Up to you of course.

W

Add this to the Listowel website too.



http://www.mickeymacconnell.com/

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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 ?






Happy Saint Patricks Day to the Class of '57.

SandhillRoad

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March 17th 2006



Happy Saint Patrick's Day.



Beannachtai na Feile Padraig.




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Cherry Tree

Go mbeirimid beo ar an am seo arís.

snow scorpion

A St. Patrick's Day present for all the Listowel folk from snow scorpion

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SandhillRoad

He played for the ASHES !

SandhillRoad

SandhillRoad

The Ashes Team
Some are still in Listowel !!

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.