Inclement weather plays havoc with proposed games
Killavullen’s proposed game in the division 1 hurling league against Glanworth on Sunday last had to be called off due to the deluge of rain which fell predominantly on Friday and Saturday of last week. Sunday was a nice day but saturated underfoot conditions meant that the game could not proceed safely.
We in the GAA community were not alone as Kilworth and Araglin Point-to-Points also fell victim to the weather. In Avondhu only two games of a full program survived the weekend storms with Kilshannig able to host a game on their excellent sand based pitch in Glantane and Ballyclough and Buttevant playing out their game on the astroturf in Banteer.
Kelly Bros Ballydesmond completed Banteer Community Sportsfields regulation sized astropitch in March 2020 with a Musco lighting system installed by McSherry Electrical Mallow. This facility was the first part of a €1.5m development funded by the Rural Generation fund via IRD Duhallow Department of Sports funding and great support from local companies and local fundraising.
In February of 2019 the Banteer Community Sportsfield Project was awarded a €1.128 million grant under the Rural Regeneration and Development Fund towards the cost of what is believed to be the first community-owned full size multi-use astroturf pitch in Munster.
The development serves all sports and is a much needed all-weather facility in the area. The second part will include new changing rooms spectator stand museum etc. The community of Banteer are to be commended for raising over three hundred thousand euro towards the project which will serve their community well, provide inward investment in their community and act as an economic stimulus in the area. More of these types of initiatives will be necessary going forward as the unpredictable weather patterns become the norm.
NO WINNER OF THE LOTTO JACKPOT
There was no winner of the jackpot of €1,700 last Tuesday night when the draw took place in the Community Centre. The numbers drawn were 9, 16 and 24. The jackpot on the night was at €1,700. Next week the jackpot will be €1800. The winners of the lucky dips on last Tuesday night were as follows; €50 Kieran Sheedy SBM– Seller – John Angland; €30 Leona O’Regan Ballygarrett seller online sales. €20 John O’Connell Annakissa seller John Magner.
Purchase your ticket from any committee member or from our website - killavullengaa. com.
FORTHCOMING FIXTURES
Division 1 junior football league 2nd game is due to be played on 17th March in Kilshannig versus the home team at 10.30am. It is hoped that a narrower pitch 2 in Killavullen will be in a good enough condition to take a U13 hurling game Killavullen v St Dominics at 2pm on Saturday 19th.
Killavullen girls have a U21 football championship game in Killavullen on Sunday 20th at 2pm.
Pitch 2 needs to be rolled where we dug it up last year hence the need for the narrowed pitch. But before we roll it, the stones need to be picked and the divots filled in with topsoil and some grass seeds thrown on.
Killavullen GAA was hoping that we could roll the pitch on the 19th but it’s looking very unlikely. We need to get a 1.5T self-propelled roller onto the field but we will only compound a bad situation if we go onto the fields while they are so soft.
MALLOW TO DUNGARVAN GREENWAY – LOCAL POINTS OF INTEREST
The proposed Mallow to Dungarvan Greenway leaving Beecher Street / Mallow Train Station route has yet to be finalised, but there is certainly no shortage of focal points / interesting areas on the old train line as it progressed from Mallow towards Fermoy.
One immediate jewel very close to Mallow and in the parish of Killavullen is the Carrig Viaduct. This is a six-arch limestone railway viaduct over the Carrig River built in 1860 which is now disused. It has rusticated stone piers with dressed stone impost courses round arches with ashlar soffits and rock-faced voussoirs. It has dressed stone string course above arches with ashlar parapet walls above. It has rusticated abutments with dressed copings.
This substantial finely built viaduct formed part of the Mallow to Fermoy line which closed in 1967. Its immense size gives it a dramatic and rhythmical silhouette in the landscape. Textural interest is provided by several different treatments of limestone - ashlar parapets and soffits rock-faced voussoirs and rusticated piers. The structure constitutes a fine example of mid-nineteenth-century engineering.
William Dargan the contractor began work on the Mallow-Fermoy line on 30 September 1858 and it opened on 17 May 1860. The GS&WR had taken over the powers of the Mallow & Fermoy Railway in 1857. This had been an independent company incorporated in 1854 as a revival of an earlier one of 1845.
The quoted contractual figure of £51,000 (€64750) in 1858 proved to be totally inadequate. The final cost was £109,000 (€138,500). The higher cost was caused by construction difficulties with Kilcummer viaduct
The last train passed over the Viaduct on Saturday, 25th March, 1967. The dismantling of the railway in the late 1960s was predominantly done using outside labour. Railway workers from the
St Johnston and Carrigans area of Donegal were engaged in the lifting of the Mallow to Fermoy railway in the late 1960s.
THE PREMIUM LEVEL EXPERIENCE AT CORK V DOWN
Cork play Down on 20th March in Páirc Uí Chaoimh at 1pm. Killavullen GAA have two tickets for Páirc Uí Chaoimh and any member or participant in the Rebels’ Bounty Draw can put their name forward to utilise. Simply send your request to our secretary Ian in advance of the game, to be considered. A draw will take place and someone of our members / supporters could be experiencing the premium experience.
THE LOCAL HORSE IN CHELTENHAM
Next Friday all the eyes of Killavullen parish will be on the local horse Ballygrifin Cottage running in the Albert Bartlett race in Cheltenham. The race is due off at 14.50. Previously that horse was owned by Donie Turner of Carrig and our parish before he was sold to race for Dan Skelton in the UK. Currently about 16/1 for the race perhaps a small wager each way could pay dividends.
MOTTO FOR THE WEEK
We must accept finite disappointment but we must never lose finite hope - attributed to Martin Luther King. Howard Farm Feeds.