National Lottery Good Causes Awards 2019 for Gallows Hill Community Project

Waterford County Museum, Gallows Hill Community Project has been selected as a county winner in the National Lottery Good Causes Awards for 2019.

Well done and thank you to our amazing volunteers, local residents and volunteer committee members who have worked tirelessly on the project to date.  Hopefully we will progress to the National Finals but being selected in itself is an honour for the Museum society.

Photo of the Week

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Stories from Old Newspapers

                               Stories from old newspapers

                            Dungarvan Observer 9 March 1918

Hygienic Bakery for Dungarvan – A. Moloney & Sons, Ltd., New Installation

    Within the past week one of the most up-to-date Hygienic Bakeries has been installed by the enterprising firm of A. Moloney and Sons, which is unequalled in finish and completeness in any provincial town in Ireland.

    In order to do so it was necessary to have a new premises erected, and this was done on a spacious site adjoining their corn stores and at the rear of Main Street.  The work was carried out under the supervision of Mr. Michael Mahony, Main Street, who has ere this proved himself an expert in the matter of such buildings.  The tiling, cementing, and outside work was carried out…by Mr. Thomas Butler and Sons, Church Street.  The new oven, which weighs 90 tons was erected by Messrs T.H. Tonge, Manchester, and the power by the National Gas Engine Co Ltd., Ashton-Under-Lyne.  The new bakery is 66 feet long by 26 feet wide.  It is divided into three compartments.  At the rear is the furnace room, in the centre the bakehouse, measuring 30 ft by 26ft, and outside is the engine room. The front of the oven is in white enameled brick.  Upstairs there is a loft capable of holding some hundreds of flour, and by means of a chute the flour can be sent…right into the kneader in the bakehouse…The oven…is able to bake 1½ sacks of flour every hour.  No hand touches the flour from beginning to end. 

18th May 2019 National Drawing Day in Waterford County Museum

National Drawing Day

Waterford County Museum take part in National Drawing Day

National Drawing Day organised by the National Gallery of Ireland takes place on Saturday 18^th May 2019.

Waterford County Museum are delighted to be part of this nationwide event. 

Children’s Drawing Workshop:  11 – 1 p.m. 

Please note this is limited to ten participants and must be booked in advance.  Age group 10 years +

A Talk by artist A. C. Hayes  -  Different Approaches to Drawing – Paul Klee, Hans Holbein, Sol LeWitt and Paula Rego:  1.30 – 2 p.m.

Guided Tour of Drawings and Prints

Curator William Fraher will give a guided tour of pictures currently on display in the museum and explain their history.    2 – 2.45 p.m.

Adult’s Drawing Workshop:  3.15 – 5 p.m. 

Limited to 12 places and must be booked in advance.

For further details and to book places  contact us at 058 - 45960 or at info@waterfordmuseum.ie

12th Annual West Waterford Festival of Foods

Waterford County Museum was open on Saturday 27^th and Sunday 28^th April for West Waterford Festival of Food.  We were delighted with the number of visitors to the museum over the weekend.  There was great interest in the cycling material and in particular the penny farthing bicycles which are being exhibited at the moment.   

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Stories from Old Newspapers

Drowning Fatality at Ballinacurra – A Captain Lost

Waterford Standard 20 March 1901

A very sad and rather tragic fatality occurred at Ballinacurra late on Friday night, the victim being Patrick Christopher, captain or skipper of the three masted schooner Maria McMillian, a vessel belonging to a merchant in Dungarvan named McCarthy.  It appears that the deceased arrived with his vessel on Friday from Plymouth with a cargo of guano manure for a local merchant, and being engaged during the evening in doing some necessary business about the locality, returned to his vessel about 11 or 12 o’clock on Friday night when he accidentally fell into the tidal waters of Ballinacurra Quay, where the vessel was lying.  His body was found on Saturday at about 9.30 in low water, between the vessel and the quay.  Which would go to show that he missed his footing…Deceased who bore an excellent character, was aged about 35 and was unmarried, his native place being Dungarvan.

John Young in his Maritime & General History of Dungarvan has the following details on this schooner:

Built at Ardrossan by Barr in 1862.  She was then owned by Fisher & Co, registered in Barrow and Lancaster.  The crew were: Captain Whelan, Patrick Christopher and Captain Gibbons.  Her dimensions were 80ftx20ftx10ft.  While based in Dungarvan she was owned by the Moloney family.