Mitchelstown heritage expo on display

M i t c h e l s t ow n Library currently hosts a full window exhibition on Clonmel Road.

See nostalgia with fairytale lore mixed in with local history pics and tips on constructing your family trees. See how Ballygiblin hurlers rose from the ashes to contest an

All-Ireland final. See revitalised O’Connell Park for Community Games and see how a Mitchelstown hammer thrower competes internationally.

Also, see how a Portuguese volleyball international coaches local and Irish national teams or how native skittles and road bowling games are played. See Saint Fanahan’s Well / 7th century abbey and the Marian Grotto.

See the Mulberry silk plantation site and remnants of such beside Mulberry Road. Georges Street jail and police barracks, Kingston College where Ukranians will be housed, Free Mason

Lodge, croquet lawns and lawn tennis courts, etc. St George’s heritage centre, the Workhouse, John Mandeville land activist and many more interesting details.

View these at Mitchelstown Library.