Pew Sheet – 23rd February 2025

Dates for your Diary

February

24th Owenabue Garden & Flower Club 8pm St Mary’s NS

March

5th Ash Wednesday Services in St Mary’s Church

10:30am and 7:30pm

7th World Day of Prayer, 3pm Service in St Mary’s Church

12th Lenten Workshop on Prayer, 8pm St Mary’s Church

19th MU Meeting 3pm Parish Hall

Lenten Workshop on Prayer, 8pm St Mary’s Church

23rd MU Lenten Lunch in Parish Hall after 11am Service ,

Donations to the MU Overseas Fund.

26th Lenten Workshop on Prayer, 8pm St Mary’s Church

This year’s Confirmation Service will be at 11am in St Mary’s Church on the Day of Pentecost 8th June

Wednesdays in Lent

March 12TH, 19TH & 26TH

8pm at St Mary’s Church, Carrigaline

Sessions will be led by Carrigaline Union

Healer/Prayer Team and will include,

Creative Prayer , Communal Prayer,

Contemplative Prayer and Coffee!

All Welcome!

The Owenabue Garden and Flower Club, Carrigaline will host a Horticulture talk

by Mary Keenan Editor of the Irish Garden Magazine.

Also Decorative and Horticultural Competitions plus Sales Table.

on Monday 24th February 2025 at 8pm in St. Mary’s NS Waterpark, Carrigaline.

All are welcome, visitors €10

Random Notes CDLXXXIII

Preserved at Mount Rivers, and illustrated herewith is a very lovely piece of Carrigaline Pottery, dating almost certainly from the early years of the pottery’s foundation in the late 1920’s

Formerly in the collection of a relative of the compiler of this note, who lived near Lucan, in co. Dublin, the piece unfortunately suffered a rather severe accident some years ago when still there, being smashed into a large number of fragments, the culprit for the accident being none other than the present owner. The fragments were gathered up some time later, fortunately not having been dumped in the meantime, and in a bag brought back to Carrigaline where shortly afterwards the compiler’s wife patiently reassembled them to its original form once again.

The piece bears a sharp impression of the ‘Skellig’ ‘Carrigaline Pottery, Co. Cork’ stamp, and is manufactured of local clay, said to have been a mixture of clays extracted from both Edenfel, where the estate known as ‘Heron’s Wood’ housing now stands, and Cummeen, this usage being evident by observing the underside rim, clearly different in colour from the later much used white Cornish clay employed over the succeeding years on the vast majority of the pottery’s production.