Newsletter July-edition-2017

1. Greetings from the board of Ballyhoura Heritage and Environment
Welcome to this Issue of the Ballyhoura Country Newsletter
This monthly publication aims, as always, to bring you all the latest news on all that is happening in
the area. It gives us the opportunity to enlighten and inform you, the tourism product and service
providers of Ballyhoura Country, on upcoming events as well as new attractions and opportunities.
This is your newsletter. Your views and suggestions are important to us and your contributions and
comments are always welcome. Email reception@ballyhoura.org
Griston Bog – Outdoor Classroom – next tour 5th
July – Ballylanders
Griston Bog, Outdoor classroom are hosting their monthly tour the 1st Wednesday of every month. All groups &
schools catered for. Advanced booking essential. Contact Annette Rea on (063) 91300 Email:
reception@ballyhoura.org
Ballyhoura Beo Bike for Life-Kilfinane 30th
June, 7th
14th
& 21st
July @1pm
Want to make a start or get back into cycling? Then this 4 week cycling programme is for you. Train as a group twice
a week in Kilfinane, receive a bike for life booklet and long sleeve technical t-shirt, improve your confidence on the
bike, suitable for beginners, starts on June 30th, and will take place on July 7th, 14th, & 21st on Friday’s @ 1pm to 3pm.
For more information & to reserve a place on this programme email beo@ballyhoura.org or call 063-91300 Cost is
€20 per person for the 4 week programme. Own bike and helmet required.
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Ballyhoura bears walking group- July 2nd
6th
Ballyhoura bears walking groups A & B walks on Sunday Mornings, Saturday’s beginners Walks in Ardpatrick, and
Thursday nights B & C walks. For Saturday Morning Walks Please contact Eileen Hurley for further details 087-
9002152. Sunday 2th July A. Moderate walk on Slievenamuck @10am, meeting at Aherlow House Hotel, the
duration is 5hrs contact Pat Moriarty on 087-2652242 and the B walk at Slievenanmuck @11am, the duration will be
3-4hrs please contact Jim Flynn on 087-2833456. Thursday the 6th July please contact Mike Noonan on 085-7329975
meeting in Kilfinane.
For more information and walking list for 2017 please log on to www.ballyhourabears.com. Membership fees are now
due for 2017.
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Kildorrery Hillfest 2017-2nd, 6th, 7th, 8th, & 9th July
Sunday 2nd July-There will be a Family Fun Day in the GAA field featuring a host of attractions including ‘Kildorrery’s
Fittest Family’.
Thursday 6th July Festival Table Quiz (Creamery Yard Bar)
Friday 7th July ‘BobbleGox’ (Creamery Store) this is GOGGLEBOX Kildorrery style, come see your neighbours on the Big
Telly in the Creamery!
Saturday 8th July the Cottage Market Creamery Yard @ 11am live band HOT FUSS followed by DJ Denny, dancing in
the Creamery Yard Bar.
Sunday 9th July-Clay pigeon shoot, in the GAA Grounds commencing @ 12.30pm
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Guided Tour of Griston
Bog@ Ballylanders July 5th
Ballyhoura Beo Bike for Life-
30th June & July 7th, 14th, &
21st
Ballyhoura Bears Walking
groups July 2nd & 6th
Kildorrery Hillfest July 2nd,
6th, 7th, 8th & 9th
Ballyhoura Country News
Ballyhoura Heritage & Environment,
Kilfinane, Co Limerick
Tel: 063-91300 Web:
www.visitballyhoura.com

2. The Cottage Market creamery Yard Kildorrery-8th
July & 22nd
July
Our next market will be on the 8th July from 11.00am to 2.00pm and 22nd of July. There is a variety of stalls ranging
from home baking, wood craft , preserves, hot food, crochet designs, healthy products, fruit and veg, antique tea
ware, smoked salmon inter alia.
The previous market was a huge success, and people attended from all over. For more information on our market
please email y.ogrady.4@gmail.com
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Friars Gate Theatre – Kilmallock
Crossroads-An exhibition of paintings by the Elena Kotovenko will run for the month of July.
Sunday 2nd July @ 2.30pm
Callback Theatre returns with the charming Dorothy Dolittle’s Magical Adventure
Dorothy DoLittle is a lovely girl but she is always tired and grumpy. But all that is about to change for Dorothy!
Dorothy lives beside an old tree but what she doesn’t know is that it is a magic fruit tree… the enchanted gateway to a
mysterious land called the Land of DoLots. With the help of magic Do Lot dust Dorothy goes on a magical adventure to
the land of the DoLots. There, Dorothy meets Ronnie Run-A lot and Clarence Carrot her guardian angels and Miss
Aubergine, Queen over all the land who teaches her the all about being fit and healthy. She learns the secrets of the
food and exercise pyramids. But the magic dust is stolen!! Will Dorothy get fit and healthy enough to get it back and
be able to return home? Suitable for Ages 4-9years. Tickets €7
Wednesday 12th July @ 8pm
Film- La La Land 2016 128mins Cert: PG
Sebastian (Ryan Gosling) and Mia (Emma Stone) are drawn together by their common desire to do what they love. But
as success mounts they are faced with decisions that begin to fray the fragile fabric of their love affair, and the dreams
they worked so hard to maintain in each other threaten to rip them apart. Presented in association with Access
Cinema.
Tickets €7
Saturday 15th July @8pm
Bewley’s Café theatre presents Buridan’s Ass, a comedy by S.R. plant. Starring Michael James
Ford and Ruairi Heading. Directed by Iseult Golden
The outrageous and acclaimed cult comedy Burdan’s Ass, which enjoyed a sell-out run in Bewley’s Café Theatre last
year, is going on the road this summer. Mahone, the last in a line of taxidermists of Russian descent, is struggling to
save his dying business. The trade in stuffed animals has hit rock bottom and his only commission, the corpse of a
much-loved pet badger, has gone disastrously wrong. Moreover he is beset by a series of emotional and philosophical
crises and is haunted by the demons of his philandering past. But, spurred on by his irrepressible apprentice Ernest
Blades, Mahone sets out to overcome the paralysing effects of Buridan’s Ass syndrome and to find redemption
through physical passion…a laugh a minute…. THE SCOTSMAN….wildly and darkly comic…SUNDAY INDEPENDENT
Tickets €12/10
Saturday 22nd July @8pm
The Songs & Tall Tales of Jerry Fish
There’s a tendency for the word ‘unique’ to be bandied around a little too freely in music circles, but that’s the only
way to describe Jerry Fish’s genre bending style. A highly charismatic performer who refuses to countenance
audiences having anything but a good time, Jerry routinely fills the country’s biggest venues with his travelling musical
Cottage Market 8th July &
July 22nd
Friars Gate events July 2nd
12th, 15th & 22nd, Summer
camps 4th July-6th July &
24th July-28th July

3. Friars Gate events July 2nd
12th, 15th & 22nd, Summer
camps 4th July-6th July & 24th
July-28th July
Deebert house hotel social
July 2nd, 9th, 16th, 23rd & 30th
dancing and Traditional Irish
4th July
Charleville Park Hotel
T.O. Park, Labbamologga
American Tea party 1st July,
Mystery Tour 12th August
Scottish Trip 23 to 27th
September
medicine shows, his swaggering vocal, generous and infectious smile and that fantastic vaudeville moustache.
Jerry Fish has spent much of his life on the road, a constantly evolving artist who has always favoured innovation over
orthodoxy. Throughout the 1990’s he was the main creative force and frontman of the alternative rock band An
Emotional Fish, touring the globe and giving us the alt rock anthem Celebrate. Once he left the constraints of the four
piece rock format however, he found a whole universe of music suddenly because a tangible and touchable prospect.
Jerry’s aforementioned swaggering vocal has been described as Tom Waltz in a good mood, or Leonard Cohen doing
Dean Martin. Smiles come aplenty and witty lyrics are definitely Mr. Fish’s currency of choice, but Jerry’s songs have
been so well crafted that they deserve more than a casual, amused listen. The Songs & Tall Tales of Jerry Fish is an
intimate, stripped-down, theatre style shows in which Jerry persons his favourite songs from a career spanning over
two decades. Tickets €16/€18
Summer Camps
Arts & Craft for Children with Jane Howe- Tuesday 4th Thursday 6th July
2-5pm (5-12years) fee €45 including all materials
County Limerick Youth Theatre presents M.A.D Camp- Music, Art and Drama Camp with Betsy Walsh
Monday 24th – Friday 28th July 10am-2pm (4-12 years) Fee €70 including all materials
For more information contact: (063) 98727 or email: friarsgate@eircom.net
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Deebert House Hotel – Kilmallock – Sunday Social Dancing from 9-12pm
Social Dancing on 2nd July with Declan Aungier, 9th July with Donie Walsh, 16th July with Dermot & Irene Ring, 23rd July
with Catriona O’ Sullivan and the 30th July with Eddie Keogh. Traditional Irish Night – 4th July from 8-11.30pm Fee €5
Tickets for our Galtymore Re-union on Friday 4th August will go on sale 1st June. Tickets are limited and cost €15.
For further information contact: (063) 31200 email:info@deeberthousehotel.com
Web: www.deeberthousehotel.com Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/deeberthousehotel/
Charleville Park Hotel –
Leisure Club Summer Rates
1 Month Membership from €60 per adult
2 Months Membership from €115 per adult
For Couple & family rates please phone 063 33790
For any information please call us on 063-33701 or follow our link on www.charlevilleparkhotel.com
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T.O. Park, Labbamologga - American Tea Party- July 1st
This year’s America Tea party takes place at the Firgrove Hotel on Saturday, July 1st music is by Declan Aungier. If you
would like to book a seat text or call Declan on 086-4005727.
Mystery Tour Saturday 12th August
This year’s mystery tour will take place on Saturday 12th August, if you would like to book a seat call or text declan on
086-4005727. Deposits of €20 is required to secure your seat. Seats are being filled quickly

4. Scottish Trip September 23rd to 27th
If you have not seen the proposed trip to Scotland travelling the 23rd to 27th of September. You can contact Declan with
your address and we will forward you the information pack by e-mail or post. We will need to collect a deposit of €250
per person by Friday July 7th. You can pay your deposit by cash, cheque or bankdraft5, make cheques/drafts payable to
GTI Travel. You can post these to T.O. Park Scottish Trip, Labbamologga, Ballylanders, Co. Limerick. Please do not post
cash. If you wish you can bring cash or cheque to the Clongibbon hotel in the square in Mitchelstown between 6-8p.m.
on Friday July 7th.
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Castle Caves & High Nellies Tour 5th July
One of a kind, day coach tour exploring the hidden treasures of Ballyhoura Country and beyond, nestled in the lush
countryside of the borders of Counties Limerick, Cork and Tipperary, in Ireland’s Ancient East. Cost €30 per person
(includes Coach cost & entry fee to Mitchelstown Cave and High Nelly Café entrance to other paid attractions are
optional. See tour dates: www.ballyhouraexperience.com or check out Ballyhoura Experience tours on Facebook
Guests are collected and dropped off at the following accommodation the Old Bank, Bruff, Charleville Park Hotel,
Deebert house hotel, Kilmallock, Ballyhoura Mountain Lodges; and Ballyhoura Luxury Hostel, Kilfinane Don’t delay
book Kelly Travel today !!
Ballyhass Aquapark
Munster’s newest wipe out style Aqua Park is now open for bookings; open all week. Race your friends around this epic
course where you will have to bounce through trampoline, traverse climbing walls, tread carefully across balance logs
and slide down some epic 4M slides!! For full details head to www.ballyhassaquapark.ie and book online. All bookings
must go through the website for groups under 30 so what are you waiting for? Cool down this summer in the crystal
clear waters of Ballyhass. Don’t forget to check out our activity centre www.ballyhasslakes.ie
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DNA Testing to find your roots Irish Clan Search points family history enthusiasts to understand DNA testing to
find ancestors and living relatives. Thinking about taking one of those DNA tests you’ve heard about? Get ready for
what could be an amazing ride. Here are discoveries people have made after taking a DNA test; You could find out
you’re from a country you never guessed, Your DNA could be much more different from your siblings’ than expected
You could find a new sibling, or find a parent or a cousin. Irish clan search can commission building family trees, DIY
courses, lectures, guided tours & sentimental photos of places of historic interest, old homesteads, graveyards,
churches etc. Locate living relatives of relatives who died without making a will abroad and DNA testing. For more
information Novel Summer Saturday Workshops How to trace family trees 11am – 3pm @ Aimerslei De Bhosc, Old
Fermoy road, Mitchelstown to register please e-mail seamusfox365@gmail.com or phone 087-3589734
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T.O. Park, Labbamologga
American Tea party 1st July,
Mystery Tour 12th August
Scottish Trip 23 to 27th
September
Castle Caves & High Nellies
tour next Tour 5th July
Ballyhass Aqua Park Open all
week
DNA Testing Mitchelstown