Category Archives: Allihies

Allihies a charming little village on the end of the Beara Peninsula, known for the only cable car in Ireland, the copper mining of the 19th century and quite simply its beauty . Here lots of photos and photography of the region.

Allihies, Events, Garnish GAA

Garnish GAA Dinner Dance

Monday 29/12/2014 Richie

Garnish GAA Dinner Dance was held on the 28 th of December in the Allihies Community hall. A great turnout attended the event to celebrate the year in style.

Garnish GAA Dinner Dance

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Allihies, Beara, Lehanmore

Cahermore National School

Sunday 28/12/2014 Richie

Cahermore National School is looking to save the teacher recently lost due to the government spending cuts. Paudie, Paul and Finbarr drove up to Dublin to meet the minister of education. We made this video which Paudie did the voice over for, to introduce the school and area.

Watch the three minute video below

Cahermore National School

A Central Hub in a community fighting for survival

Cahermore National School is a small school in the Allihies Parish on the Western tip of the Beara Peninsula. The school was built in 1979 following the amalgamation of three local schools; Cahermore NS, Lehanmore NS, and Cluin NS (Allihies Village).

Up until this year Cahermore N.S. had 3 classrooms. Due to drastic cuts in pupil-teacher ratio to small school of Ireland we now have two classroom teachers in the school; Mr. Padraig O’Sullivan (Principal) teaching 3rd, 4th, 5th and 6th classes, and Mrs. Siobhan O’Driscoll (Deputy Principal) teaching Junior Infants, Senior Infants 1st and 2nd classes. Nuala O’Neill is our part time Learning Support Teacher.

While Mr. Niall O’Sullivan is based at Cahermore N.S., he spends most of his week covering Resource teaching hours and Principal Release days in other Beara schools.

We are still fighting against these cutbacks. Losses such as this have detrimental effects on population regeneration of an already struggling parish, not to mention the negative effects on diversity of pupil education.

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Allihies, Allihies Mines, Beara, Reentrisk

Dooneen Copper Mine

Tuesday 18/11/2014 Richie

Dooneen Copper Mine on the Beara Peninsula near the picturesque village of Allihies. It was the first of the copper mines to open up in the area in the early 19th century. Here is a little video I made to practice my video making skills. Promoting Beara and getting people to make it as far as here….