SAT 26th 2010

9.00AM - 2.00PM
BRUSHSTROKES
A painting workshop with
Andrea Jameson, Arthur Maderson
& Noel O'Donoghue
Venue: Cappoquin Community Centre
All amateur painters welcome but spaces are limited.
Please bring own materials and easel
€10 donation to local charity
Contact: Noel 087-7608639

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
Venue: the Square
Incl. Auvergne Specialities
Face painting by Cappoquin Youth Club
Contact Esther: 087-715167

10:30am
U12 Camogie Blitz at GAA ground
Contact Trish: 087-6843007

11.00am - 6.00pm
MADERSON'S OPEN DAY
An exhibition of local & French scenes
Venue: Derriheen House
Contact: Arthur 058-54861

2.30 pm
RECESSION OLYMPICS
Hosted by Cappoquin Civic Link Heritage
Group—old fashioned games that won’t break the bank.
Venue-Green Street
Contact Kevin: 087-6501042

4:15pm
BATTLE OF THE BARS
Relay Team Event
(3 per team) €5 per team
Venue-Green Street
Contact Bridget: 087-9705015

8:00pm
BLACKWATER CROSSING
Long Puck with Inter County and Local Hurling Stars
Venue-The BoatHouse
Contact Kevin: 087-6501042

9.00pm
BARBEQUE
followed by live music
Venue: Community Centre
Contact Cathy 058-52746

CONTINUING ALL WEEKEND

FLORAL & HERITAGE
EXHIBITION
Venue—St. Anne's Church
Saturday 11.00am—6.00pm

HERITAGE WINDOW COMPETITION
Sponsored by Cappoquin Civic Link Heritage Group—Independant Adjudication
Contact Cara: 087-9664513

A PENCIL FULL OF LEAD
Exhibition by Gillian Wright
Venue-The Community Centre
Saturday 11.00am—6.00pm
Contact: Gillian 087 6221615
Raffle of a commision of Gillian's work for local charity

Market
Market 2009

Recession Olympics 2009

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

Visit Cappoquin Civic Link for more local information

CAPPOQUIN CORNERSTONE CARNIVAL 2010

The legend of The Cappoquin Cornerstone