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maps.osi.ie/publicviewer/#V1,662934,612973,7,7

It's a ploughed field now: maps.osi.ie/publicviewer/#V1,662938,612926,7,0

I was looking at this one: maps.osi.ie/publicviewer/#V1,650711,657292,7,9 Which is now a hotel.

There's pretty much no trace of it now - someone's been driving diggers all over it: www.google.ie/maps/@52.2641574,-7.0787315,350m/data=!3m1!1e3

According to the census, Miss McCreevy isn't a local, unless her entire family were away on the census date. There's no McCreevys in Kilkenny or Waterford, let alone Rathculliheen.

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"Governor-General prays for tasteful joke from fruit farmer"

Great !!

?Bananas Are Facing Extinction – And It’s All Our Fault The world’s favourite fruit, known for its health benefits, is under attack by two dangerous diseases.US article 2019 . www.huffpost.com/entry/bananas-extinction-fungal-disease_...

City Hall workers tried to use locally-sourced materials and were proud to handcraft the finer details of the building. The building's exterior is built from ashlar coursed sandstone from the Helidon district near Ipswich. Inside the building, Queensland maple and silky oak timbers were used. It was a proud time for Brisbane’s citizens, when this elegant sandstone building, inspired by the architects’ passion for New York’s art deco stock combined with interwar academic classical references, suddenly rose well above all surrounding structures. In her poem, The City Hall, Mabel Forrest (1872-1935) described: "The loveliness of tower and of wall, Of sculptured beauty crowned with stately spire, Built on foundations of a people's love — A man's ambition welded, to his toil — The star supreme of architectural grace, Crying: "This shall be worthy of our land. Queensland — with majesty — we crown thee Queen!" Forrest’s full poem — written for the occasion of the opening of the new City Hall and read at the opening ceremony — is now on a plaque in the hall in a beautiful frame built by Ed Rosenstegel. The opening ceremony was described as 'A Spectacle of Splendour'… as the great and representative assemblage gradually filled the Concert Hall this afternoon for the official opening of the City Hall by the Governor (Sir John Goodwin), the scene was brilliant… a most impressive setting had been provided for the historic event. But it was not until the hall was filled by the representative guests, and all the lights were up that the splendour of the scene burst forth. Over the years it has become one of Brisbane's greatest icons and community meeting places. The building has played an important role in the lives of our local community in times of war, peace, celebration and refuge and has rightly earned the title of the 'People's Place'. Source: www.slq.qld.gov.au/blog/90th-anniversary-opening-brisbane....