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Thursday, 18th
May 2017
Silver Chalice and Paten Returned to Spike Island After 136 Years
by SEAMUS WHELEHAN
Continued from front page Commissioned in 1848
by the Irish Prison Ser- vice, the paten and chal- ice were used to carry out daily service for the islands 2,300 inmates. When the island ceased
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to be a prison in 1883 the religious artefacts were brought to Dublin’s Mountjoy prison where the governor of the Is- land, Peter Hay, took up his new posting. Both items were used
in the Church of Ireland chapel until Mountjoy closed in 2013. The chalice and paten
will now go on display in a specially constructed case with panels detailing their significance and the role which religion played in Victorian reform. For much of the 18th
century and the first half of the 19th
century trans- portation to America and
Australia was used as a punishment. With crime figures
soaring it became appar- ent that free passage to these countries was not a deterrent. From 1830 onwards
there was a major effort to make prison the core of Britain’s punishment system, with religion used to help reform the crimi- nal.
With the ending of
transportation the Brit- ish Government began a prison building pro- gramme between 1840 and 1877. Spike Island manag-
er, John Crotty, said they were delighted to receive the chalice and paten back on Spike Island and all the history that they bring with them. “Both items were com- missioned just as the famine raged in Ireland and the prison popula- tion was swelling, and so they would have served
• Cllr Anthony Barry, deputising for the Mayor of the County of Cork, second right, accepting the silver chalice and paten from David Stanton TD, minister of state for Equality, Immigration and Integration, at the ceremony to mark the handing back of the silver chalice and paten to Cork County Council by the prison service, at Spike Island, Co Cork. Also included are Michael Donnellan, director general of the Irish Prison Service, left, Conor Nelligan, Cork County Council heritage officer, right and back row l-r: Simon Hill co-author of the Spike Island guide book, Rev Adrian Moran, Michael J Ryan, Cork County Council, project manager and John Crotty, general manager of Spike Island. Picture: David Keane.
Roches Point Lighthouse Celebrates 200 Years Guiding Mariners Through Cork Harbour
by SEAMUS WHELEHAN
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It was the 4 June 1817 that the lighthouse at Ro-
che’s Point was first lit and its beaming light has been a welcoming bea- con for Mariners since. A notice which ap-
peared in the Freeman’s Journal on that date read; “Light-house on Ro-
che’s Point, entrance to Cork Harbour” “A light to be exhibited on the evening of Wednesday the 4 June next, and from thence continue lighted from sunset to sunrise.” “The light is to be steady, of deep red colour to the sea, and from the Cove a bright light.” This coming 4 June the commissioners for Irish Lights in association with the Cork Harbour Herit- age Alliance will give the public a rare glimpse in- side the lighthouse. Access to the site is by
ticket only and will be limited to 1,500 people. Space can be booked
online or by registering your interest at the Mid- leton Tourist Office. Please follow the East
Cork Journal on face book for further details as the website for the Ro- che’s Point event was not
operational at the time of going to print. Tickets are priced at
approximately €7 each which covers insurance and bus from Trabolgan to Roche’s Point. As the lighthouse is still
an active aid to naviga- tion, access to the Fresnel lens will not be permit- ted. This is the first time in
its history the lighthouse has been open to the pub- lic for tours. Access to the tower will
be open to active adults and flip flop shoes are prohibited. The site was acquired
from Colonel Edward Roche through a compul- sory purchase order. The first light was es-
tablished in Roche’s tow- er which was constructed of stone. It resembled the Ro-
che Tower which still stands at Aghada Hall. Proven to be unstable and too small the struc-
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ture was replaced in 1835 when the present tower was built. Throughout the First
World War the light was a valuable aid to both Brit- ish and US Navies based in the harbour. Local historian Willie Cunningham said “these ships of the Queenstown command, together with the sea planes from the Aghada Air Base were instrumental in defeating the German U-boats and turned the tide towards victory for the allies.” During the Second
World War the Roche’s point light was “blacked out” as no aid to the Ger- man bombers could be given in their night time raids.
became
Lighthouse operations automated in
1994. The last Princi- pal keeper was Denis A O’Leary from Whitegate. The current attendant is Midleton man Jimmy Power.
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some of the most col- ourful characters in the country who found them- selves incarcerated on
Spike. Many of them were awaiting transporta- tion to Australia for their crimes, which was often
petty theft out of des-
peration, and they would have found comfort and strength in their religion”.
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