GARRYKENNEDY - (Garraí Uí Chinnéide)

Garrykennedy by Paul Gauci before the construction of the Harbour

Castletown and Garrykennedy as recorded by William Petty in the Down Survey 1655-56

Garrykennedy Desmesne from Encumbered Estates Brochure 1857. The new harbour was built in 1857 to accommodate the export of slate from the Curraghbally Slate Quarries.. Much of the ruins of the old Slanger Tower ended up as infill to join the castle island to the mainland.

Early map showing the castle was built on a separate island

1980 edition of Cois Deirge featuring Garrykennedy Castle

Diving competition at Garrykennedy Regatta

Music Festival in Garrykennedy

Locals on board a barge being ferried across Lough Derg to Mountshannon for a dance

Safe moorage in the harbour

Before the addition of the Marina

Early Postcard of Garrykennedy Quay

James McGraths 1912 (above) and The Barge Inn before the building was re-imagined as Larkins

A stroll around Garrykennedy

Ciss Ryans Bar with and without anchor

Ciss Ryan - publican

Gerry Martin - local musician and fiddle maker

Interviewed by National Geographic Magazine in November 1978, he was 81 and was in the process of completing his 75th violin...."I live for music" he said.

Gerry Martin's house

Remnants of the castle interior with mural passage

Continental Cafe society in Garry

Garrykennedy after remedial work by the O.P.W. in 1946

The Castle covered in Ivy

Anachronistic postbox with insignia for Edward VII and Saorstat Eireann

Summers Day in Garrykennedy

Garrykennedy woodland

Larkins Pub

Castle Ruins

Birdlife in Garrykennedy Harbour

Hotel Ormond Water Taxi

The MV Ormond was purchased in Holland in 1964 by the owner of the Ormond Hotel Denis Gilmartin. Its home port was Garrykennedy.

The stark and upright ruin of Garrykennedy Castle and Harbour - (aka Slanger Castle/Castlegare)

Flora in and around the gently splashing waters of Lough Derg at Garrykennedy

Living, abandoned and sunken dreams in the newly built Garrykennedy Marina (2018)

Garrykennedy House in nearby Cornode - Originally it was the residence of James Watson. The family also once owned Brookwatson outside of Nenagh. It was bought by William Parker in 1857. 

Garrykennedy Tower...One local legend recorded by Maurice Lenihan states it was built for protection after an English resident received a threatening notice. Originally the only means of entry was via a ladder. It was said to have had a conical slate roof using material from the nearby Curraghbally Slate Quarry. Other versions state that it was one of four towers that William Parker intended building for a new house. Eventually it was resigned to be a folly with a viewing window for the nearby lake. At present, Planning permission has been recently granted to renovate and return the tower to this use.

Artworks

B Dangerfield - view of Lough Derg

Painting of Slanger Tower by N/K