The
latest issue of the Sliabh gCua Annual is now out. The cover has an attractive watercolour of
Knockboy Church by Trevor Wayman.
As
usual the annual is full of interesting local stories. A particularly interesting story is “The
Local Bismark Connection” by Mary Fanning.
It tells the story of Mary Hanrahan of Caherbrack, Ballinamult who
worked as a nanny and English teacher for the children of the Bismark family at
their hunting lodge at Friedrichsruh, east of Hamburg. A letter giving details of her death in 1956
has been donated to Waterford County Museum.