RIC Barracks Site and Lyreacrompane Farm
Following the very successful unveiling of the renovated lime kiln in Lyreacrompane the Local Heritage Group has now erected an...
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Welcome to the newly upgraded Lyreacrompane website. Lyreacrompane is a rural, upland area in the Stacks and Glanaruddery Mountains of North Kerry in Ireland.
You will find information here from our Heritage Group, the Dan Paddy Andy Festival and also our Journals can be accessed online from this, our new website.
Once Upon A Road
We are delighted to announce the launch of Once Upon A Road. Written by Joe Harrington, Once Upon a Road contains 364 full colour pages and 315 images, maps and photos. It is a comprehensive account of the oldest turnpike road to the Cork Butter Market. Joe describes the book as a “search for the olden days on a sixty-mile journey through 275 years of time.
Built by John Murphy under a 1747 Act of Parliament, every mile tells its own tale and along the way we meet Whiteboys and Hedge Schoolmasters, Freedom Fighters and Moonlighters, Famines and Natural Disasters, Mass Rocks and Wedge Tombs, Bronze age hoards and Bog Butter, Lost Estates and Evicted Tenants – and the part played by the road in the slave trade.
Now in bookshops in Kerry, Cork and Limerick and by post from Joe Harrington, Lyreacrompane, Listowel, Co. Kerry. Ph. 087 285 3570 at €30 (includes P&P)