Killavullen
HAPPY SUMMER HOLIDAYS
Happy summer holidays to the second level students of the parish. You have all been learning in the most unusual of times over the last 11 weeks. Enjoy the break from school while remembering safety on the road, on the farm and safety around water. Fun times are great but keep safe and be aware of the dangers.
Leaving Cert Students ~ we wish you well. Traditionally this is exam time, a time when our thoughts and prayers are with our young people who are about to sit their final exams. This year it is very different. However, the community are still thinking of you all and wish you well in your future paths, wherever they may take you. Congratulations on completing your second level education. Best wishes to you all.
Wishing all the second level teachers in the parish a very happy summer holidays too. A break from remote teaching and planning is well deserved.
HOLD FIRM
Hold Firm is the motto of a new campaign run by the HSE praising the efforts and sacrifices we have all been making to flatten the curve and stop the spread of COVID-19.
Staying away from the people we love and the things we enjoy is not easy. It’s not us. But, this is us – taking care of each other, supporting our colleagues on the frontline and in the back office, and the people most at risk in communities all across the country.
Their message is ‘We now know COVID-19 is going to be with us for a while. We need to motivate and inspire people to keep up the actions that help us to stay safe and protect each other. We need the people of Ireland to HOLD FIRM.’.
The symbol of the campaign is the rainbow and people are being encouraged to display a rainbow on their windows to motivate each other to keep going. We are not there yet, but we are getting there, each day is a day closer to the lifting of restrictions.
OUR CHURCHES ARE OPEN
Both Annakisha and Killavullen Churches are open during daytime hours for private visits. Group gatherings will begin again from mid-July (according to government’s roadmap). Please observe best hygiene practices before and after visiting the churches and its grounds and keep physical distance from anyone you happen to meet.
MAINTENANCE ISSUES – Work has commenced this week on the sacristy and meeting room window at Killavullen Church. Work commenced this week on repairing one of the windows at Killavullen Church: the timberwork will revert to the original (pre-1995) design, which was retained in the front gable window. Clear glazing and better ventilation will make the upstairs meeting room an attractive venue for the children’s Liturgy of the Word, and other small group gatherings. At Annakisha the window openings will be housed in stainless-steel mesh frames to prevent avian intruders. Sorry, swallows, you will soon have to say your prayers outdoors.
MASS DURING COVID-19 – At this time of the Covid-19 pandemic Catholics are dispensed from the obligation to physically attend Sunday Mass. One of the ways to remain connected to our Catholic faith community is through livestreaming. The website churchservices. is the go-to place for many of the larger churches and cathedrals around the country, including St Mary’s Church, Mallow churchservices.tv/mallow. Masses are Live-streamed from larger churches around the country, especially at, churchservices.tv St Mary’s Church, Mallow: churchservices.tv/mallow livestreams weekday Masses at 10 a.m. There is a Saturday Vigil Mass at 6.30 p.m. Sunday Masses are broadcast from St Mary’s at 8.30 a.m. and 11.30 a.m. Mass and other programs are also broadcast through Radio Maria which is available on Saorview Channel 210. This station is led Fr Eamonn McCarthy, a priest of Cloyne.
DUMPING
While the above people were using their time and energy to boost the beauty of our locality others have been out in force undoing it. The roadway to some households in Killavullen has been littered with many loads of mixed garden waste, leaves, timber, building blocks, plastic, grass trimmings, brambles and briars dumped in unsightly piles on more than one occasion. The residents along this road must now go and tidy up the mess left behind. Bags of fire ashes are dumped in bags along other roadways, not to mention bags of household waste.
Residents are monitoring their areas and the advice to dumpers is to be careful. There are signs around letting you know that there are cameras in operation and they are being checked. Leaving or throwing litter in a public place is an offence which can result in the on the spot fine of €150 or a maximum of €3,000 if you are convicted in the District Court. It might be financially worth disposing of your waste correctly rather than pay the fine.
Stop expecting the good nature of residents who live where you dump, and those who use the walkways for exercise to pick up after you. If the waste was going to look unsightly at the end of the garden, dumping it on the way to the homes of other people is not kind or fair. Leave nothing but your footprints as you leave our area.
MEALS ON WHEELS
Mallow Meals on Wheels can provide a hot meal with either soup or a dessert Monday to Saturday for €5 per day to anybody in our parish, who may wish to continue to avail of this service or for new people who may wish to get a hot meal delivered daily. A cooled meal can also be delivered on Saturday which can be put straight into the fridge to be heated up on Sunday.
uring this pandemic the meals will be delivered to Killavullen and our Willing Hands Group are only too happy to help deliver them to those who have signed up. All our volunteers are discreet and do not want people to let pride get in the way of this amazing service.
Please pass this information
Photos: Eugene Cosgrove onto those you have contact with who may benefit from it. If you would like more information please contact Sheila at 085 2414879 for details.
COVID-19 VOLUNTEER GROUPS
In Killavullen two groups have been set up in response to cocooning and self-isolation requests by the government. One group is a telephone group. A group of willing volunteers have offered to ring locals as they isolate and cocoon. They will be a friendly voice in the day to break up the monotony and the loneliness than can sometimes occur. This group will also ask if anything is needed or required, shopping, prescriptions, milk, newspapers, stamps etc. They will then pass this information onto the second group.
The second group is a Willing Hands Group. This group is one which is made up of people will get what is needed and are willing to deliver the items to those cocooning or isolating.
If you are cocooning or isolating and this service would be of benefit to you please contact Gillian Forde at 086 3845655 to be included and tell your friends. If you have a relative or neighbour who you think would benefit please let them know. To make this service work we need to have contact numbers from those cocooning or isolating.
An Garda Síochána in our districts of Fermoy and Mallow have dedicated Gardaí whose priority will be looking after the needs of those who are most vulnerable. If you or someone you know is vulnerable due to their age, health or ability please contact the Gardaí and they will assist in any way they can. It may be to deliver a prescription or something requiring attention in your home, they will not be able to assist with giving drives to people.
Phone Fermoy Garda Station at 025 82100; Mitchelstown 025 84833; Mallow 022 31450.
LOCAL INFORMATION
There are two very informative websites now active in our parish and worth checking out on a regular basis: killavullenparish.ie/ killavullengaa.com/
It is also worth keeping an eye on the Parish Facebook page, the newly formed group Look after the Elderly in Killavullen and the Killavullen GAA Facebook.
GAA NEWS
Tom Horgan from Rockview terrace in Doneraile, died of late, and received a very dignified send off from his home and lifelong parish of Doneraile. Towards the end of his life, he suffered from Alzheimer’s and this cruel disease robbed a very intelligent and articulate man, of his memory.
He was in this correspondent’s house in Killavullen countless times, and while the memory banks were not cooperating, it was warming to recall, that to mention hurling received a smile every time, and to ask, if any games involved a ruckus, the answer would be another smile, and did any games involved Doneraile and Killavullen, yet another smile, and a chuckle. Did every topic get a smile, no, but hurling certainly did.
That all players can look back on their life, involving sport, affectionately, even in old age and impending cruel dotage, and smile.
The sporting code does not really matter, the grade does not matter, but hopefully, the memories are kind.
CALEB CRONE – Caleb Crone was born in Killavullen in 1920, where his father was station Master on the Great Southern and Western Railway Line that ran through the parish, between Killarney and Rosslare. Caleb later moved to Dublin where he excelled as an accomplished back, with in the Dublin club championship, that brought him to the attention of the Dublin Senior Football Selectors.
Caleb was a member of the 1937 Air Corps Apprentice Class. He played for the St Mary’s Club in Saggart during his Air Corps Service in Baldonnel.
He won an all-Ireland Medal with Dublin in 1942, playing at left corner back.
St Mary’s had five players on the Dublin team when they won the 1942 all-Ireland Final against Galway. The five players were Paddy Bermingham, Gerry Fitzgerald, Peter O’Reilly, Caleb Crone and Paddy O’Connor.
After his apprenticeship term in the Air Corps, Caleb then transferred to Cork temporarily, and won a second all-Ireland Medal wearing the Red jersey of the county of his birth, in 1945. Inter County transfers were far more prevalent in the early years of the GAA when there was greater migration, but less transport and infrastructure.
Given Kerry’s omnipotence in Munster, Cork had suffered a lean period. After winning in 1911, they went 34 years without beating Kerry. It wasn’t till 1945, when the legendary Collins Barracks Army members, Eamon Young, Mick Tubridy, ‘Togher’ Casey, Moll Driscoll, and our very own Caleb Crone backboned a fine team that included Jack Lynch, that won the Celtic Cross medals.
Caleb also won Railway Cup medals, for both Leinster and Munster, when there was great sway placed on that competition in 1944 with Leinster, and 1946 with Munster, marking him down as a player of fine repute.
He is quite unique in the GAA being only one of five football players who have won winners medals with different counties. He was honoured when elected to the Cork Team of the Century on the occasion of the GAA Centenary in 1984. Caleb retired from the Air Corps with the rank of Sergeant and joined Aer Lingus where he worked as a technician in the aircraft simulation department.
He settled in Saggart after marrying a local girl, Annie McDermot and had two sons Colm and Denis. Colm sadly passed away in 2000 and Denis still lives in the Saggart area. He was related to TV and Radio pundit George Hook, who has often proudly spoken about him. Caleb regretfully died in 1958 at a relatively young age and is buried in Saggart Cemetery.
Other players to win all-Ireland Medals with different counties include William Guiry (SF: Limerick 1896; Dublin 1897); Larry Stanley (SF: Kildare 1919; Dublin 1923); Jack Flavin (SF: Kerry 1937; Galway 1938); Bobby Beggs (SF: Galway 1938; Dublin 1942); Caleb Crones (SF: Dublin 1942; Cork 1945).