SUN 27th 2010

10:00am SALMON & TROUT OPEN DAY
Hosted by Cappoquin Salmon & Trout Anglers Association.
Contact: Titelines-54152

12:15pm HISTORIC WALK OF CAPPOQUIN
(weather permitting)
Venue—Meet at The Square
Contact: Brendan 058-54682

1:30pm DOG SHOW
Followed by Small Dog Novelty Races
Venue-The GAA Field
Contact Angela: 087-2739991

2:00pm GAA FUN DAY
Venue GAA Field.
Contact: Jennifer Hickey

2:00pm INTERNATIONAL BOULES
Venue the Wall in GAA Field
Contact Keith 087-9054068

2:30pm TUG OF WAR
Venue—GAA Field
Teams can enter on the day
Contact: Christine 087-7684235

2:00pm OPEN DAY AT THE SNOOKER HALL
Venue—Snooker Hall
Contact: John (Rhiney) 087-6381572

FORTUNE TELLING
with Madame Skuhrova
Contact: Angela 087-2739991

5:00pm CAR TREASURE HUNT
Starting Point—GAA Carpark (€10 per car)
Contact: Christine 087-7684235

7:45pm FORMAL CLOSING OF CARNIVAL
Venue—St. Anne’s Church
Prize giving & competition results

8:15pm 45 CARD DRIVE
Venue-The Parochial Hall €10 person
Contact Peg: 087-2938027

FLORAL & HERITAGE
EXHIBITION
Venue—St. Anne's Church
Sunday 12.00am - 7.45pm

HERITAGE WINDOW COMPETITION
Sponsored by Cappoquin Civic Link Heritage Group—Independant Adjudication
Contact Cara: 087 6221615

A PENCIL FULL OF LEAD
Exhibition by Gillian Wright
Venue-The Community Centre
Sunday 12.00am - 7.00pm
Contact: Gillian 087-6191856
Raffle of a commision of Gillian's work for local charity

Dog Show
Dog Show Winners 2009

Closing
Closing Ceremony 2008

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

CAPPOQUIN CORNERSTONE CARNIVAL 2010

The legend of The Cappoquin Cornerstone