On Sunday October 20th , Billy O'Brien and Eamonn Pearse paid a pre - arranged visit to perhaps one of the most important people on their must - see list. Wife of Author Tom O'Keeffe ( Togher , A Brief History and Togher Past And Present ) - Kathleen O'Keeffe. The team entered her abode with trepidation and left with excitation. In the interim , they were treated very kindly by their host.
Billy O'Brien and Kathleen O'Keeffe
It was originally envisaged that an hour would be given over to the visit with the remainder of the day going towards two locations - Garrane Darragh House ( which would have necessitated a cross field sojourn ) and a fight with severe overgrowth to attain a photo of the remains of the " Tanning Cottage " off Forge Hill. However as soon as the photo albums were glimpsed , it quickly became apparent to the visitors that everything else was going to take a back seat for the forseeable future. Below are just a few of the fantastic images from the Kathleen O'Keeffe Collection which are reproduced here with permission.
Kathleen O'Keeffe centre back row with fellow
students of Togher Girls National School
somewhere on Lehenaghmore Hill mid 1960s
Feirm Bawn in its heyday circa 1996
Locals posing by wall of Liberty Stream circa 1968
Field in background would become new
Togher National Schools in 1971
Old Togher National School early 1960s
Sweetshop in green to right of building
New straight road ( Togher Road near Deanrock Bar )
under construction while old Railway Bridge
is being demolished circa 1976
Tracks from Cork Macroom Direct Railway
through Togher being lifted circa 1955
School outing aboard Irish Omnibus Company 1930s
Sarsfield Lodge near Togher Cross circa 1940s
Unknown Togher youths
circa 1920s
The Sarsfields circa 1946 with Maurice Sexton
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