Mass
Sunday 25th Aug, St. John’s – John & Kathleen Clarke, Corvally and their grandson Patrick Cooney.
Wednesday 28th Aug, St. Michael’s, 7.30 pm – No Mass.
Sunday 1st Sept, St. Michael’s – Peter McNally, his wife Ellen, Corkishbane, daughter Margaret Rooney, son Peter & deceased members of the McNally & Gollogly families.
Tommie & Katie Larkin, Corrinenty, their sons Patsy & Peter, their granddaughters Caroline & Jacqueline, & their great-grandsons Anthony & Liam Twine.
Social Dancing to Curtis Magee in Corduff Raferagh Community Centre on Saturday 31st August from 8.30 pm
South Monaghan Parkinson’s Support Group – In the past few months a number of individuals, relatively recently diagnosed with Parkinson’s, have got together to support each other by sharing their stories and helping each other out. This small group are finding their shared experience a comfort and support as they enter uncharted waters. The group would like to extend an invitation to anyone suffering with Parkinson’s disease, or family members to make contact to help others in a similar situation.
For further details call Seamus in confidence on 087 2482292.
The Parish of Machaire Rois Healing Mass with the Anointing of the Sick. On Sunday 1st September at 4.00pm in the afternoon, we will have a special Mass in St. Joseph’s Church, Carrickmacross, where we will celebrate the Anointing of the Sick. The Sacrament of the Anointing of the Sick is one that is underused among our faithful. The Oil of the Sick is one of the three oils blessed by the Bishop at the Chrism Mass each Holy Thursday. This oil is distributed to every priest and parish in the diocese, along with the Oils of Chrism and Catechumens, used in Baptism and Confirmation.
Carrick Cancer Challenge in Memory of Ciara – Aidan Walsh will once again take on his annual fundraising event in memory of his late wife Ciara. We wish Aidan the very best as he departs on his bike from Eurospar Ireland – Cloughvalley Carrickmacross @ 9:30a.m. on Sat 31st August to his destination the Carlingford Greenway. Please like, share & support Aidan as he marks the 5th Anniversary of Ciara’s passing. #TogetherWeAREMakingADifference https://gofund.me/c545d158
Friends of Carrick Cancer – By popular demand, we will once again have our annual fundraising walk along the beautiful greenway from Carlingford to Omeath on Saturday the 31stAugust. If you wish to join us, there will be a bus leaving Carrickmacross at 9.30am and our walk will start at 10.45. Please contact committee members below for a sponsorship card to help raise funds or you can donate on the day. All proceeds go to Carrickmacross Cancer Society. Thank you. Committee Members Pat McNally 0874130727 – Majella Hoey 0872975326 – James Lambe 087 6329620 – Patrick McNally 0876500721and Grainne McNally 0872506045
The Fr. Noel Conlon Charitable Trust – Date for your diary – Saturday 7th of September. The Fr Noel Conlon Charitable Trust is holding the annual walk in Carlingford at 11 o clock with registration at 10.30 am. Beautiful scenic walk starting at the Marina with a short walk to St Jude’s Shrine-6km and longer walk to Omeath -12km, doing it for a very worthwhile charity, Mary’s Meals. Registration fee €25 p/p.
Heritage Week – It was a mixed bag of weather this week for the Heritage Week events, which started last Saturday 17th and runs until this Sunday 25th. “This year’s theme is Connections, Routes and Networks, which invites you to explore the ways we are connected to each other through physical or cultural connections.”
With this years’ theme what better way in this area to commemorate “Connections, Routes and Networks” than to follow the old Mass path from Corduff Chapel to the back of the Mountain. This path was a well-worn trail right up until the 1990s as the route to Corduff School, Corduff Chapel, Corduff Post Office, the Dispensary, Hanratty’s shop, Bergin’s Shop and the all-important telephone kiosk. For many, they traversed the path on their daily commute, some as a weekly commute to the shop or Mass, in all kinds of weather. These types of pathways were short cuts for those on foot rather than taking the extended walk by road. The advent of motor cars have all but eliminated these paths traditionally used to get from point A to point B in the shortest possible time. In our case we are fortunate that the furly gates and stiles are still standing and in use along this path.
Although we were getting warnings of the tail end of not one but two hurricane’s, to go or not to go was the big question right up until 6.30 pm last Thursday evening. But the hardy and brave crew who arrived at the Community Centre carpark at 6.30 pm were oblivious to the drops of rain and brewing breeze and were happy to proceed across the mountain.
On the other side of the mountain we visited a field known by the Hand family who own the field as ‘the Scréag’, one meaning of this name is cloch or stone. The field, in fact, was the site of a Mass Rock in Penal times later called Carraig An Aifrinn. No visible marking of the Mass Rock can be seen today, but it is literally a stone’s throw from the Mass Rock site in the neighbouring townland of Greaghlatacapple. Although the weather did not improve, it was interesting to view another place in our area where worshipers gathered in secret to attend Mass. The views towards the northwest were amazing, even with a grey sky, we could only imagine what it would be like on a clear day.
Sincere Thank you to Martin Hand for letting us traverse his fields and also to Mary McEvoy and John Hand for passing on their knowledge and memories which added to the enjoyment of the Ramble.
On our Rambles, wonderful information is always shared and gathered, like the families who lived locally who are no longer in the area, stories, anecdotes, field names, folklore etc. It is said that the water that flows west and north from Corduff mountain, flows into the Atlantic ocean, and all the water that flows east from it flows into the Irish Sea.
On the way back we ducked in to St. Michael’s and shared some of the history of the beautiful building built in the early 1860s.
On our return to the Mountain Dew, Linda had the tea pot full and all sat back and enjoyed some refreshments.
We then were treated to some lovely Memories from Maura Garvey, for the full story click on the following link https://corduffraferagh.ie/memories-by-maura-garvey/
A story shared on Thursday evening in regards to two Mrs. Marrons from Corduff went something like this. The two Mrs. Marrons found themselves in hospital at the same time delivering their sons, this was back a few years ago! As motor vehicles were few and far between, one of the husbands secured a car to pick up the two ladies and their sons to bring them back home to Umerafree and Corbane, near neighbours. On arrival at the hospital he told the nurse in charge that he was here to collect his wife, Mrs. Marron and his neighbour Mrs. Marron. The nurse proceeded to the ward and loudly announced that a man had arrived to take the two Mrs. Marron’s home, can you imagine the looks those ladies got!
