Sunday 11^th May was a beautiful, almost balmy Sunday evening as we assembled in Coppeen village to pool cars. Then a party of 15 persons travelled eastwards to Knockavilla. There, we parked near the soccer pitch, and Professor Billy O’Brien led us uphill into Cashel Hillfort, pausing at strategic points to explain in great detail the fascinating story of this most impressive archaeological site. Read the rest of this entry »

“Following the Kilmichael Ambush on the 28^th November 1920, the commander of the Crown Forces at Macroom Castle Colonel Barton Smith sent a number of auxiliary personnel to investigate the disaster and recover the casualties. Also included in that group was an engineer named Lieutenant E. Fleming, whose job was to assess and document the ambush site, and chart the facts as they lay before him……” Some 88 years after the historic event in Kilmichael, the nearby village of Coppeen saw the unveiling of an unusual historical artifact.

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