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Features
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Written by Ted Coakley
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Saturday, 08 December 2007 |
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A
friend told me that during the Summer he had a great time in northern
Spain as part of the Santiago de Compostela pilgrimage walk. I was
posted a book to read about it and to make sure that I visited
shortly. I did not read the book -yet- so when I saw an article in the Southern
Star dated
November 17th
last, I realised my chance to catch up on this item.
The
article was written by Perry O'Donovan, a West Cork native,
presently undertaking the complete walk over a period of 40 days. He
demonstrated the various experiences along the route, the different
places he visited and that some were "scrappy
little villages like Reenascreena".
So,
there you have it.
Our
village now has
a "reference point" but for all the wrong reasons. Is it a fair
description? It seems extraordinary that as full members of the E.U.
over the past 35 years, have we advanced much? How is it that some
people can hijack the normal progress of a place and this has
happened on many occasions? What can be done about it? Does it
matter?
In
October of this year, a sum of 5000euros had to be refused from the
County Council for village renewal
as agreement could not be reached on how to use it. Unbelievable.
Ted Coakley (hon sec CAG)
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Website News
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Written by Calvin Jones
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Monday, 08 October 2007 |
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Our guestbook was experienceing problems displaying the security image that is designed to prevent automated spam entries. Unfortunately this meant that for a while our visitors were unable to leave their entries in the guestbook.
Guestbook functionality has now been restored, so feel free to post your entries here .
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Features
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Written by Ted Coakley
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Monday, 08 October 2007 |
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At first glance, it would appear that the area around Reenascreena is ideal for all kinds and methods of water supply. The Argideen River rises here with sources from three different points ; a strong tributary, called the Glashagloragh, comes from the northern side and the Rowry river has a source nearby, too. We have two lovely lakes : Corran and Lough Atariffe. There is a share of wet land like cut-away bogs, marshes and many streams ; our rainfall levels are considerably high. But when efforts were made to sink or bore for water, the aforementioned facts hold little relevance towards having success due to the fact that the rock formation locally is not conducive to the retention of water in most wells and boreholes. The hardship that this visited on the local population is hard to calculate and now, many years later, it seems difficult to understand. Buckets, barrels, churns and the famous sweet-tins, were used to transport and store water that was drawn from a well for domestic and personal use . The problems for livestock management were huge: nearly every farm had some pigs and most householders kept a cow or two.
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Reenascreena News
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Written by Calvin Jones
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Wednesday, 09 May 2007 |
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 Reenascreena Community Playschool will be holding its enrolment day for the 2007/2008 school year on Friday 25 May between 09:30 and 12:00 at the Reenascreena Community Hall.
All parents of pre-school children are welcome to come along and sign their child(ren) up for a playschool place. We look forward to meeting you and next year's pupils on the day.
Reenascreena Community Playschool is a community run, not-for-profit facility affiliated to the High/Scope Educational Research Foundation.
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Website News
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Written by Calvin Jones
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Thursday, 25 January 2007 |
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Those of you using Microsoft's new browser, Internet Explorer 7, may have noticed that it's causing problems with the header layout of the Reenascreena.com site. We will be addressing this in time, and giving the site a bit of a re-vamp too. Meanwhile, you could try using the standards compliant (and frankly better) Mozilla Firefox browser which is free to download from the Mozilla website.
Regards,
Calvin Jones -- Webmaster
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