TIDY TOWN COMP

2007 Programme

FRIDAY

"The Last Train "

SATURDAY

SUNDAY


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Chairperson: Cindy O'Shea.

Secretary: Cara McGrath

Treasurer: Richie Scanlan

PRO: Keith Dransfield.

Committee: Martin Reddy, Michael Doherty, Michael O'Rourke, Carl Geoghan, Kevin McCarthy, Michael Looby, Mary McGrath, Joe Prendergast

 

 

CAPPOQUIN CORNERSTONE CARNIVAL 2008
Fri June 27th - Sun 29th 2008
Cappoquin's Annual Weekend of Family Fun

All your favourite, and some new,attractions.

Photos can be seen on each day's links and in slide shows below the sponsor list

OUTLINE PROGRAM 2008

Cappoquin Tidy Towns Committee have organised a competition aimed at showcasing the town during the Carnival
Full details are HERE

Friday 27th

6.30pm Opening Ceremony in CYMS Hall
with Cheese and Wine Reception

Heritage Exhibition:
400yrs of Cappoquin Industry

7.00pm Cappoquin Soccer Club Soccer Blitz and Family Field Night.

8.00pm West Waterford Athletics Dromana 5 Road Race

9.00pm Music in the Square
by Winnie's Boys

11.00pm Firework Display, The Inch

Saturday 28th

Heritage Exhibition:
400yrs of Cappoquin Industry

10.00am  Cappoquin Local Anglers Club Fishing Competition

10.30am – 1.30pm Food producers’ Market in the Square

Camogie Blitz at GAA ground

1.30pm  Railway Athletic Family Open day at Railway Athletic ground

Snooker Exhibition

Historic Walk

Presentation "The Origins of Cook Streer"

Carnival Dance in Boathouse

Sunday 29th

Heritage Exhibition:
400yrs of cappoquin Industry

9.00am  Open Salmon Fishing Competition

12.00pm GAA Fun Day
(Including Tug o' War)

6.00pm Regatta

Click links below to view photos in new window
Last Year's Carnival

Saturday Market
Fancy Dress
Shop Windows
Cycle Race
Heritage Exhibition
"The Last Train"

 

The legend of The Cappoquin Cornerstone

The story goes that one of the occupiers of Cappoquin Castle was a poet named Tomas Ban Fitzgerald. Because of an enemy's curse he fell on hard times and did a deal with the Devil - in the guise of two 'Maistini' or Hell Hounds. They made him prosperous again in return for the promise that he would give them his first born son.

Because he was a bachelor and had no son anyway, Tomas was happy with his bargain. However, years later, he married a French noblewoman who bore him a son whom they christened Muiris.

Soon the Maistini came to take the child but Tomas refused. Days later the boy mysteriously died followed soon after by his mother who died of a broken heart. Consumed with grief, Tomas decided to leave Ireland forever and lived out his remaining years in a French monastery. Before he left he had the cornerstone of the Castle's fireplace, upon which his deal with the hell Hounds had been written, taken out and rolled far away from the Castle to the spot at the end of modern Castle Street where it now lies.

From "Cappoquin, A Walk Through History" by Melanie O'Sullivan and Kevin McCarthy

 

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