“The last night of October is ‘amlais’ night. It is also snap-apple night & Halloween.The young men of the district go around gathering alms or ‘amlais’ on that night. This custom has died out now and there weren’t any gathering ‘amlais’ this year.” — Tomás Breathnach, Kill, Co. Waterford (1930s) 🕯️

The Ghost of Glencairn Abbey a 18th century woman who literally lost her heart 🎃 #Halloween #Samhain #WaterfordFolklore #History #Dungarvanleader

I have a spooky article in this week’s #Dungarvan Leader about the White Lady or Ghost of Glencairn Abbey 🎃such a great tale! 👀 I also caught up with Gemma on @wlrfm.bsky.social to chat about the fabled Petticoat Loose a Waterford which eventually banished to Bay Lough.

Listen back: Absolutely loved being part of this live recorded podcast. Digging Into Waterford: Episode 7 – Live at @House of Waterford. Now available to listen back. Thanks for Claire & all the team at Visit Waterford. Such a lovely evening ❤️ Recorded live: Listen back:👇🏻 tinyurl.com/2hcyz23c

Listen back: Absolutely loved being part of this live recorded podcast. Digging Into Waterford: Episode 7 – Live at @House of Waterford. Now available to listen back. Thanks for Claire & all the team at Visit Waterford. Such a lovely evening ❤️ Recorded live: Listen back:👇🏻 tinyurl.com/2hcyz23c

I have a spooky article in this week’s #Dungarvan Leader about the White Lady or Ghost of Glencairn Abbey 🎃such a great tale! 👀 I also caught up with Gemma on @wlrfm.bsky.social to chat about the fabled Petticoat Loose a Waterford which eventually banished to Bay Lough.

Lily Mernin –Intelligence Agent and proud Waterford woman🇮🇪 Some of the amazing women are now up on the new Waterford County Museum website – including Lily Mernin who worked inside Dublin Castle during the War of Independence. www.waterfordmuseum.ie/waterfords-r...

Ardmore Ogham Stone: LUGUDECCAS MAQỊ/  ̣  ̣?   ̣  ̣MU]/COI NETA-SEGAMONAS/ DOLATI BIGAISGOB..Translation of Luguid son of ...? descent of Nad-Segamon' (Ogham 3D) NETA-SEGAMONAS a local dynasty likely active in w Waterford 5th–7th c. The name appears on stones also at Kilgrovan Island & possibly Knockboy

Waterford - #CustersLastStand June 25th the anniversary of the Battle of Little Big Horn. Four of the privates that fought alongside Custer at the last stand were born in Waterford. Their remains are buried on the Last Stand Hill. abbeysideheritagearchive.blogspot.com/2011/07/custer…

Waterford - #CustersLastStand June 25th the anniversary of the Battle of Little Big Horn. Four of the privates that fought alongside Custer at the last stand were born in Waterford. Their remains are buried on the Last Stand Hill. abbeysideheritagearchive.blogspot.com/2011/07/custer…

Waterford - #CustersLastStand June 25th the anniversary of the Battle of Little Big Horn. Four of the privates that fought alongside Custer at the last stand were born in Waterford. Their remains are buried on the Last Stand Hill. abbeysideheritagearchive.blogspot.com/2011/07/custer…

🔥 “They lit a big fire on the boreen and drove the cattle through it…” 🔥 St John’s Eve - Solstice customs from @duchas_ie #SchoolsFolklore — Patrick O’Rourke, Glentown #Waterford recalls a world of fire, fields & folk belief. More to come as we count down to #StJohnsEve in #Waterford ☀️

The Mórrígan: Irish goddess of war, fate & sovereignty. She shapeshifts from crow, wolf, eel, woman, foretelling doom, guiding battles, haunting heroes like Cú Chulainn. A force of chaos & prophecy in Ireland’s oldest myths. #Morrigan #IrishMythology #Ireland

Delighted that I’ve been accepted to the MA in Gaelic Literature & Culture at UCC starting September! I’ve long loved Irish sagas, mythology & manuscripts & now I get to study them properly. So excited to delve in. Expect lots of posts on myth, folklore & ancient texts over the next two years! 📚✨

The Mórrígan: Irish goddess of war, fate & sovereignty. She shapeshifts from crow, wolf, eel, woman, foretelling doom, guiding battles, haunting heroes like Cú Chulainn. A force of chaos & prophecy in Ireland’s oldest myths. #Morrigan #IrishMythology #Ireland

Delighted that I’ve been accepted to the MA in Gaelic Literature & Culture at UCC starting September! I’ve long loved Irish sagas, mythology & manuscripts & now I get to study them properly. So excited to delve in. Expect lots of posts on myth, folklore & ancient texts over the next two years! 📚✨

I’ve always been fascinated by keening the ancient vocal lament once heard at funerals in Ireland and Scotland. This 1950s recording,m, is the first I’ve heard. It’s not what I expected, rhythmic, haunting &unexpectedly beautiful. #Folklore #Keening youtu.be/vgts7_b1JWY

I will be chatting to Gemma Delaney WLRfm after lunch today about Gallowhsill Community archaeology Project 😄 Which all started 10 years ago this year @WatCoMus and is part of @HeritageHubIRE #Adoptamonument initiatives. Funded and supported @RIAdawson @WaterfordCounci @CreativeIreland

Beautiful old wrought iron gates near Colligan Woods, #Waterford quiet markers of Waterford’s rural past. Standing watch as the landscape changes around them.

I will be chatting to Gemma Delaney WLRfm after lunch today about Gallowhsill Community archaeology Project 😄 Which all started 10 years ago this year @WatCoMus and is part of @HeritageHubIRE #Adoptamonument initiatives. Funded and supported @RIAdawson @WaterfordCounci @CreativeIreland

Beautiful old wrought iron gates near Colligan Woods, #Waterford quiet markers of Waterford’s rural past. Standing watch as the landscape changes around them.

Chatting to Gemma Delaney @wlrfm.bsky.social today about the #legend and #folklore of notorious highwayman William Crotty 📻 #Waterfordhistory

Always lots of pebble flint at Ballinard, Ballinacourty strand. We found various worked flint pieces at Gallowshill over the years excavating that originated from pebble #Flint , maybe even from Ballinacourty! A report dated them to the late #Neolithic period. Helvick in the distance.

A Glimpse Through Time 💕 A photo can capture a moment but sometimes, it holds entire lifetimes. In this photo, taken by Edmond Keohan, four generations of women and one small boy quietly speak volumes. Seated to the right is Ellen O’Mahoney, my 3x great-grandmother, born in Aglish in 1838.

Helvickhead, An Rinn #Waterford ❤️ a view of Helvick is especially beautiful as you round the bend on the pike towards Dungarvan #stunning

Look at those Faces 😍 beautifully captured photograph by Tom Tobin, 1950s at T.J Murphy Place from 'Up the Village' #Abbeyside L-R - Michael Power, Dermot Wade, John Tobin, Dermot O'Brien, Ester Tobin and Paddy Tobin.

Electing a housing High King and sending him to war against the Vikings

In my happy place 😊⛏️a week of digging at Ballynamintra caves, in 2019

Sunlight reflecting on Affane Church and graveyard, Co Waterford. The famed healer Greatrakes is believed to be buried in the church. Although other sources state Lismore cathedral. #churchruins #Waterfordhistory

Sunlight reflecting on Affane Church and graveyard, Co Waterford. The famed healer Greatrakes is believed to be buried in the church. Although other sources state Lismore cathedral. #churchruins #Waterfordhistory

CnamBan Founded 2nd April 1914 Listen back to @wlrfm.bsky.social today with Gemma Delaney to hear our chat about the forgotten story of #Waterford Cumman an mBan women during the the War of Independence and Civil War 🇮🇪 #Cummannamban #Womenshistory

Crotty's Cave, Comeragh Mountains A historic photograph c1900 shows unidentified men at Crotty’s Cave in the infamous hideout of William Crotty, notorious highwayman. The chamber, hidden beneath Crotty’s Rock. On 18 March 1742, he was hanged, and his severed head was displayed above Waterford gaol.

I will be chatting with Gemma Delaney later on wlrfm about an interesting Waterford place-name ‘Murdering Glen’ and the bloody and violent days of Faction Fighting in #Waterford #Factionfights

Delighted to present at last weeks @HeritageHubIRE information webinar about our experiences with #Adoptamonument Applications close this week, so don’t delay 🙌 Listen back 👇🏻 t.co/L9NOjk67YB Gallowshill Community project is supported by @WaterfordCounci @RIAdawson @CreativeIreland

Beautiful…. A view of Helvickhead and An Rinn from Clonea strand 💛 #Waterford

Register your interest for Thursday's webinar. I’ll be talking briefly about #Waterfords Gallowshill Project and our experience as members of #AdoptaMonument since 2016 😊 #Communityarchaeology #Dungarvan Register: 👉🏻 ow.ly/uWba50Vb1kW

Nora Whelan, Kilnafrehan, Co. Waterford, 1916 aged 18 years playing Coleen Bawn at Dungarvan Theatre. Nora was a founding member of Dungarvan Cumman in 1918. Courtesy Waterford County Museum.

#Internationalwomensday2025 Nora Whelan, Kilnafrehan, Co. Waterford at 18 she worked as a domestic servant in Dan Fraher’s home a hub of revolutionary activity. Member of CnamBan 1918-23. Refused a pension in December, 1950, she wrote a letter to the pension, ‘I feel justice wasn’t done on my case’

@rte Broadcast 1988 Moresby Commemoration of the shipwreck, that occurred off the coast of Dungarvan in 1895 and an exhibition in the Dungarvan museum and the restoration of the 19th-century buoy which marked the location of the wreck. www.rte.ie/archives/col...

Phyllis was from a fascinating family - the Ryans of Tomcoole - who were all involved in War of Independence then took opposite sides during Civil War. In later life she married President Seán O'Ceallaigh and hosted a Cumaan na mBan reunion in the Aras en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phyllis...

Cath up on the WLRFM app today with Gemma Delaney 1.30pm. #Waterford #Signaltowers 🌊

Famine burial ground at Slievegrine/Reilig an tSléibhe - 2½ miles South-West of Dungarvan. “In Remembrance of the victims of the Great Famine (1845-1850) buried here in common and unmarked graves. The King of Glory will show them favour, The Virgin Mary will them befriend… 1/2

Helvickhead framed by the rock formations at Ballinard, Ballinacourty #Waterfordcoast

Exciting reports of the discovery of the tomb of King Thutmose II, husband of female pharaoh Hatshepsut! Though the tomb is mostly destroyed, the excavation team still found items naming Thutmose & Hatshepsut, & fragments of the Amduat, a royal funerary text 🧵 1/4 www.theguardian.com/world/2025/f...

Helvickhead framed by the rock formations at Ballinard, Ballinacourty #Waterfordcoast

The Decies Public House, Clashmore Michael Walsh & four donkeys outside the Decies Public House, The photo was used as an album cover for 'Lan Stád Live at The Decies'. Band: Mick Mahoney, Richard Power, Eddie Cantwell, Michael Lenane. By Pat Crowley, 1990. Waterford County Museum archives.

A face peers out from the hilt of a wooden weaver's sword. This artefact is believed to date to the 11th century, and it was discovered during archaeological excavations at the former Beamish and Crawford brewery site in Cork City. ##SpéirGhorm #Archaeology 🏺

The Decies Public House, Clashmore Michael Walsh & four donkeys outside the Decies Public House, The photo was used as an album cover for 'Lan Stád Live at The Decies'. Band: Mick Mahoney, Richard Power, Eddie Cantwell, Michael Lenane. By Pat Crowley, 1990. Waterford County Museum archives.

I recently purchased a print of Brigid, goddess/saint of Ireland from @ciaraioch.bsky.social as a gift for a good friend of mine. Not exaggerating when I say the quality of everything was impeccable. The art, packaging, the extra goodies inside, the personalised note, and address on the parcel.

The last standing #Waterford Napoleonic Signal Tower along the breathtaking #Ardmore Cliff Walk. Built between 1805/1806 one of six towers built along Waterford's coast to guard against French invasion. Tune in to #WLRFM tomorrow I’ll be chatting with Gemma Delaney about these historic towers. 🌊 📻