Chrissy Knight-O’Connor

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

Thanks Brian ☺️

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! 📚✨

YouTube video by The Folk Revival Project Keening | Six authentic recordings from Ireland and Scotland (1955-1965)

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