Community notes Aug 22nd

Ibane Ladies Football Club

The club is delighted with the high numbers attending training each week. It is great to see the children of the community getting time together with their friends in a Covid-safe environment in the lead up to the return to school after the extended break.  Well done to players who took the opportunity during lock down to develop skills at home, it is great to see the girls confidence levels growing, especially in younger age categories football basics! Training continues at the usual times this week.  

The Junior, Minor, Under 16 and Under 12 teams all partook in games this week.  First up were the Junior ladies who defeated St. Colmans in a tightly contested championship fixture on a scoreline of 5-9 to 5-7 in sweltering heat on Sunday 9th.  Their next championship fixture is against Cloyne on Wednesday 26th at 7:45, and will be played in Cloghduv.  The Minor ladies defeated Gabriels away in the West Cork league on Thursday last.  They meet Kilnameela in their next West Cork league fixture on Tuesday 25th @ 7:30. The U16 girls defeated Beara on Sunday 16th in their latest West Cork league fixture (photo included below). Finally, the U12 girls played Kinsale in a non -competitive fixture at home last Sunday, and meet Bandon in their next non- competitive fixture on Sunday, August 30th, in Bandon at 11:45.  

Duck Race

Last week-end quite a large number of brave souls manned the tables at The Cross and at Foley’s Centra selling ducks for the forthcoming duck race which will be held on Saturday August 29^th at 4pm. Weather conditions were atrocious for humans but the ducks were delighted. The response from the general public has been fantastic. If you haven’t bought a duck so far, do not worry. Ducks will be on sale this week-end.

A trawl through the records has revealed that the first duck race to take place in conjunction with the Timoleague Harvest Festival was in 1985. It was held on a Saturday evening at 7pm. As always, the tidal conditions were of paramount importance for the successful holding of the event.

The official opening of that year’s festival was performed by our former parish priest, Rev. Fr. Donal Casey RIP.

100 Years Ago

In August 1920, a member of the Timoleague Company took part in an ambush of a party of British military at Brinny. The Company was also represented in an attack on an enemy party of military at Newcestown in the same month.

Members were also engaged in the construction of dumps and dug-out at this time. These were constructed so as to make the storage of guns and ammunition waterproof and difficult to locate. There was also room for one or two men to hide in the dug outs. The dug outs were sometimes 7 foot deep and could be 6 foot long by 5 foot wide. There was one such dug-out at Gurranes. It was lined with cork for warmth during the cold weather. There were two clay pipes out through the side and the members of the company inside has a full view as far as the Courtmacsherry Bridge at Timoleague. The dumps were made by burying a waterproofed wooden box in the middle of a double stonefaced bank. The opening was so arranged that a large stone gate-post acted as a cover for the open end. This made it possible to remove an signs of traffic when the dump was being used by dragging bushes through the passage at the gateway. The dimensions of the box would have been 6 foot x 1 and a half foot x 2 foot.