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10.00am  Cappoquin Local Anglers Club Fishing Competition Venue R. Blackwater (Confined to Members) Prize presenation 7.30pm in Boathouse 10.30am – 1.30pm Food producers’ Market in the Square Contact Esther: 087-715167 10.30am Camogie Blitz at GAA ground Contact Rita: 08-276765 1.30pm  Railway Athletic Family Open day at Railway Athletic ground Incorporating the Mary McClaughlin Perpetual Trophy U8 Soccer Blitz, Bouncy Castle, Sideshows Contact Tom: 087-2787696 2.00pm Snooker Open Day Exhibition in Snooker Hall Contact John (Rhiney): 087-638152 4.00pm Regatta on River Blackwater featuring Trinity College RC as guests of Cappoquin Rowing Club 8.15pm Presentation by Julian Walton of WLR FM: "Robert Cooke of Cappoquin - Vegetarian & Author" Venue CYMS Hall 10.00pm Carnival Charity Dance Venue Boathouse. Tickets €10 - Limited Number - available from Credit Union Mary Murray's Shop

CONTINUING ALL WEEKEND Heritage Exhibition in St Anne's C of I: 400yrs of Cappoquin Industry Flower Club Exhibition in St Anne's C of I Primary School Art Exhibition in Library Window Display Competition Theme: Culture & Sport Saturday Market

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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