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		<title>&#8220;GALTEE COME WEST&#8221; BRINGS FATHER CASEY TO LIFE!</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Jan 2008 11:27:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#160; My grandmother remembered Fr Casey. She was just seven yeas old when he died, but she recalled a horseman dressed in black and with the distinctive Roman collar, cantering slowly across Abbeyfeale Hill on his way to Cahirhayes, probably to visit a sick parishioner. &#8220;That&#8217;s Fr Casey.&#8221; her mother told her. &#8220;That&#8217;s the Land [...]]]></description>
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		<title>THE OLD HILL ROAD</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Sep 2007 11:15:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last night as I lay sleeping, I dreamed of days of yore, And strolled along the old Hill Road In memory once more. &#8230;&#8230;&#8230;. &#160; Up beyond Jack Fealey&#8217;s cottage I walked the winding road, And familiar footsteps took me To Frank Foley&#8217;s famed abode. &#8230;&#8230;&#8230;. &#160; Geraniums on the window sill, A welcome at [...]]]></description>
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		<title>FATHER CASEY REMEMBERED</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Next year will be the centenary of the death of Fr William Casey PP who was Parish Priest of Abbeyfeale from 1883 until 1907. The event will be commemorated with various functions and events throughout West Limerick and beyond, and is certain to revive major interest in the life and times of this extraordinary man [...]]]></description>
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		<title>MEENKILLY WELL SCHOOLED IN THE ART OF CARD PLAYING!</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#160;Meenkilly National School, Abbeyfeale has enjoyed a long and proud academic history since its establishment at the start of the 1900`s. However, in recent years, it has garnered an additional reputation for the quality and excellence of its card school.Meenkilly Card Game has been up and running now for several seasons and has almost become [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;BY THE FEALE`S WAVE, BENIGHTED.&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#160; (See Mairead Reidy`s beautiful illustrations in our PHOTO ALBUM, ABBEYFEALE ART section.When Thomas Fitzgerald, 6th Earl of Desmond, approached the humble abode of one of his tenant farmers, just outside Abbeyfeale, on a dark and dreary winter&#8217;s evening in the year of Our Lord fourteen hundred and ten, little did he know that his [...]]]></description>
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		<title>DESCRIPTION OF ABBEYFEALE IN 1837</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#160;THE FOLLOWING IS AN EXTRACT FROM A TOPOGRAPHICAL DICTIONARY PUBLISHED BY SAMUEL LEWIS IN 1837. IT GIVES A FAIRLY VIVID DESCRIPTION OF WHAT CONDITIONS MUST HAVE BEEN LIKE, IN AND AROUND ABBEYFEALE, BEFORE ROAD AND RAIL ARRIVED. WE ARE INDEBTED TO THE BOFFINS AT LIMERICK COUNTY LIBRARY FOR THE EXTRACT. ABBEYFEALE.A parish, in the Glenquin [...]]]></description>
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		<title>HOW ABBEYFEALE GOT ITS NAME.</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#160;Abbeyfeale &#8211; Mainistir na Feile &#8211; The abbey of the Feale.It is said that the River Feale derives its name from a beautiful young maiden called Fial, who was the wife of local chieftain, Lughaidh Mhic Lotha. Legend has it that one day, while bathing in the river, Fial was startled by the sudden approach [...]]]></description>
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		<title>DROMTRASNA VILLAGE BYPASSED!</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Parish Newsletter, distributed over Christmas, was a riveting read, with one article in particular, creating much discussion and debate, as well as a certain amount of head scratching. The article, (author unknown) describes the early days of the Parish of Abbeyfeale and claims that there were in fact two villages in the parish &#8211; [...]]]></description>
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		<title>CON MURPHY AND THE BALLYDONNELL SAM STORY</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;WOULD THERE BE ANY CHANCE THAT YOU MIGHT COME TO MULLINGAR NEXT SATURDAY NIGHT? THERE IS A LITTLE BIT OF BUSINESS THAT I WANT YOU TO DO FOR ME.&#8221; It is almost twenty-four years ago since Con Murphy, a part-time bookmaker and greyhound trainer from Church Street in Abbeyfeale, circulated about forty relatives, friends and [...]]]></description>
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