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From: Sacha Philp in England
09 Sep 2011 21:04:33

Hi i am looking to rent a holiday home cottage house here does anyone know anyone or know of anything available please feel free to email me planning to get married here in 2013 with my family and need some where to stay

thanks

From: suzanne cogan in midleton
08 Aug 2011 15:21:44

tried to take my two kids to poulgorm yesterday, havn't been down there for a few years but was really suprised to find that its practically impossible to reach from the top road, slid down the cliff path to the top of the steps, looked down to find bottom steps missing, so wouldn't take the chance, thought i'd take the kids back through path to Bunny's but that has been blocked off. Can remember as a kid being down there most days in the Summer, now it seems that my two won't be able to experience the fun that I had.

From: Garry in somerset
18 May 2011 09:37:27

I found a lovely video clip of the
moon rising over Myrtleville 11 years
ago. I have put in my Facebook. If
you wouls likew to see it and other
photos of myrtleville have a look.
Garry Crowley

From: Jason in Manchester
25 Jan 2011 12:49:30

Hi all,

Nice site. I'm a radio documentary
maker and will be in Cork next week
(Feb 2-5) to record interviews on
the subject of the demise of the
foghorn.

I know from personal experience
that the foghorn was almost like
the soundtrack toi Myrtleville at
times. I'm hoping to explore
peoples reaction to its closing,
inquire about any resonances it may
hold for people and ask simply if
people will miss it?

Anyone with anything to say please
contact me at:

theboyjazz@gmail.com or text
00447982405533

From: Linda Farrell Scobbo in Long Island New York
16 Jan 2011 16:16:58

Hi everyone
Anyone know of anybody renting their house for a week
in August in Myrtleville, Any info would be appreciated.
Thanks

From: Linda Farrell Scobbo in Long Island New York
16 Jan 2011 16:11:58

Myrtleville......... wow that place brings back brilliant
memories. I grew up in Myrtleville. Lived there till i was
about 19 years old. I am 38 now living in New York and
wishing to win the lotto and buy a summer house there.
When i go back to Ireland i always love to visit
Myrtleville. It is so funny you dont appreciate a place
until you dont have it anymore. Myrtleville will always
be my home!!!!!!!

From: Niall Lewis in Greystones Co Wicklow
28 Oct 2010 15:34:15

Hi,

My family had a holiday in Cork many years ago (1979), and i have been searching google earth for 3 years to find the exact spot where we stayed.

I think i have found it.. and may have been helped by reading the messages on this site.

Did o' regans field once have three brick bungalows and a couple of wooden type bungalows (wooden type were facing the sea).

Street view on google earth has twigged memories.. the steep hill up from the little beach inlet and a turn right up that hill.

Could somebody please confirm i have found where we stayed all those years ago.

Many thanks,

Niall Lewis (Co Wicklow)

From: Walter in Dublin/Cork
27 Sep 2010 21:30:22

I see on your homepage that a bus from Cork City goes near Myrtleville. I presume that it's the 222, if so what stop is the nearest to the village?

Please advise if you can.

Many thanks,

W

From: me in over there
15 Aug 2010 15:28:53

and there is also a Myrtleville House' in Ontario, built by the Good family who emigrated from Myrtleville House here

Any info on the House "here"?

From: donal o leary in kinsale
26 Apr 2010 16:14:14

Have fantastic memories of poula my family had a bungalow above poulagorm spent our summers with the donnerys fishing for mackeral etc out by the daunt lightship sat nights down in bunnys and jock chasing us home yeah they were good times love your site some names that come back to me are the shanahans lannins obriens cotters mccartys o heas must take a spin over one of these days

From: Deirdre O'Brien in Cork
09 May 2010 14:34:58

I love this site. I recognise so many
of the names from my childhood hols
in Myrtleville. We had, and still
have, a bungalow in O Regans Field.
My brothers are Tommy and Vincent.
Happy days.

From: olan quinlan in america
04 Apr 2010 01:00:22

HI MYRTLEVILLE, hope every 1 is keeping well

From: Lorraine Carolan in Ireland
July 23, 2009 - 02:01 PM

Hi everyone!! Many of my most precious childhood memories centre round Myrtleville and my cousins the Floyds! Every chance I got I was on the train from county Meath to the beautiful destination! All those summer mornings running down to the beach with our peanut butter sandwiches & Miwadi orange, which were always warm and soggy but lunch when we unvoluntarily left the water to eat! Unfortunately the Floyds moved away to the States but Auntie Maevis was home in June & we took a roadtrip to Myrtleville which was very nostalgic! Still has the same draw and tug on my heart. Just thought I'd share a little memory...Lorraine

From: Pauline O'Keefe in Ireland
April 17, 2009 - 01:00 PM

Looking forward to summer coming and my holiday in Myrtleville. See you all then.

From: Garry Crowley in Ireland
January 31, 2009 - 11:37 PM

Roberta! You love Myrtleville so much. I understand that. I do too. I suppose that times have moved on. I was a boy there 60 years ago and have been in love with the place ever since. You are right . I ought to stop moaning and continue to enjoy it. Thanks Garry.

From: Reg Volk in Ireland
January 18, 2009 - 12:29 AM

Looking for any info on the history of O'Regans Field. TKS!

From: Veronica Grealy in Canada
January 01, 2009 - 02:58 PM

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to Myrtleville! Wishing you all a peaceful and happy year ahead.We are looking forward to visiting soon-Liam really enjoyed his visit in 2007! Love from Veronica(Finegan),Chris and Liam (Victoria,B.C. Canada)

From: Kathy Soo-O'Brien in Ireland
December 27, 2008 - 03:23 PM

Here's hoping everyone had a HAPPY CHRISTMAS and all in Myrtleville and their friends and relatives have a wonderful New Year in 2009, Kathy and Bertie and Family !

From: Roberta in Ireland
August 18, 2008 - 03:30 PM

So Garry Crowley from United Kingdom,
You have a problem the 'useless crowd' that live in Myrtleville now? Yet you blame everyone who visits Myrtleville for the mess you found there, makes no sense to me. Do you think the locals enjoy the influx of people like yourself fouling the beach? How can you give out about the dogs, when you did it yourself?! We don?t enjoy not being able to walk to the shop in the summer without being harassed by 'Gurriers'(not very P.C. a man of such moral fibre like yourself should respectfully address everyone, even if you consider them inferior). Bunnys is private property, you don?t have any rights to complain where that is concerned,( for your information the garden was closed because the cliff was crumbling away, so feel free to talk a walk there if you feel so hard done by the measures put in place for you safety). As for complaining about cliff erosion, you?re fighting a losing battle there bud! The council I am guessing don?t invest in new steps because most go abroad these days for holidays, you would not get the same crowds you'd get 30 years ago, so it would be money wasted on their part. They keep the beaches clean of the mess tourists make and we are thankful to them for this. As for the boats being unsafe, how does this affect your life exactly? These social problems are everywhere in Ireland and England, you can?t possibly pinpoint the problem in Myrtleville.
If you want society to go back to what it was, you may feel powerless in this but I?ll give you some second hand advice 'be the change you want to see in the world'. In other words, grow up and learn some manners and respect, teach other around you the same and stop spreading such animosity in the world!
'but now I want to moan and grumble.', do you hear how childish you sound?! The community put this website together to help the people and their magical memories of Myrtleville live on, and now your fouling all over it.

From: Garry Crowley in United Kingdom
August 17, 2008 - 03:20 PM

Myrtleville! I love that place so much. We spent many wonderful holidays there. I will sometime write to you about that but now I want to moan and grumble. Myrtleville is a dump! The great potential is just thrown away by the useless crowd that live there now.I was there in Aug. 2008 and saw loads of litter,and rubbish left lying about. The beach is a toilet for every dog in Cork and I have actually seen 14 dogs together some years ago,roaming the early morning sand and fouling everywhere and anywhere. I was there when there were up ot two hundred people on the beach during a hot August afternoon. Where did they go to the tiolet? Well like me they had to find a safe unseen spot over the rocks or by the clifs. I remember the time when the Longs left their boat on top of the slip and even one or two on Myrtleville beach itself. There were boats hauled up on Fennell's and left upside down for weeks on end. The Wheltons had a boat pulled up on Poulgorm stones and tied up. On one even thought of touching or damaging them. Now, they would be taken by the gangs from town and Carrigaline and would end up smashed on the rocks in the morning. You, the boat owner, would be sued and libel if any of the Gurriers got hurt.
Bunnys was always a place of great comfort and enjoyment and one could enjoy a drink in the lovely garden on a sunny day. Not anymore. The garden were put out of bounds by the owner because he was libel for anyone getting cut from leftover broken glasses and parents being outraged by youths indulging in vulgar behaviour and unsuitable language. The lovely path the ran through the grounds out the old iron gate to the clifftops above Poulgorm was likewise put out of bounds and has long since become overgrown and inaccessable. Narural erosin has weathered the steps down to the rocks. They are now unsafe and when somone is killed or injured there, The Council will take the cheap way out and erect a barbed wire barrier...so no more Poulgorm swimming or fish...

From: Kevin Crowley in Ireland
July 17, 2008 - 10:38 AM

Wow, what can I say. I didnt expect to find a website dedicated to little ol Myrtleville!!! I enjoyed reading the posts from the guys mentioning old times in Myrtleville. Brought back a few memories. My folks are Andrew and Deborah Crowley. Our family spent every summer in Myrtleville in our bungalow 100 yds up from the beach in what is now called o Regans avenue.
All of my best memories of youth involve Myrtleville. Hanging out with the O callaghans (Ultan, Emmet, Eddie, Donnacha, Eimer), Morrises (Aisling, Cliona, Aidene), Shellards (Stewart, Jean), Ryans (Derek, Gillian), Riordans (Dennis, Tom), and many others who's names escape me right now. Derek R, if you ever read this... I was only thinking the other day about the sunney summer days we spent snorkelling off Poulgorm diving for fishing hooks caught on the seaweed having been lost by the mackarel fishermen the night before... great times!!!
Diving off the timber diving board in Poula, Going over and kicking a ball around in Manions field, Sitting in the middle of O regans field just messin around. Playing rugby with the o callaghans in O regans field (yeah Donnacha, he was 5 or 6 years old then, who could have known he'd get so....BIG!!! lol.) Walking through the fields to the merries in crosshaven on a saturday eve...
My dad was friends with Dennis Jackson and they were both sea crazy!! Into boats of all shape and form.
My dad had a sailboat and he'd let me bring friends out with us either heading over to Ringabella beach for the day or maybe featherhook fishing for mackarel over by roches point. If there was any big cruise liner due in to cork harbour sure enough my dad would load us up on his boat and we'd head out for a look.
What a great youth, we were so innocent, no cartoon network, Sky tv, playstations or nintendos back then. We made our own entertainment in the company of each other. Do any of you might remember 'the swing' up in the woods behing Pine lodge? A big tree with a rope ha...

From: jonathan in United States
June 24, 2008 - 07:12 AM

Hi tina, jonathan here. was looking for some photos of home and came across this. pat and mary are visiting me in the bronx at the moment. hope everythings good.

From: Tina Shee-Cappieri in Ireland
June 21, 2008 - 04:35 PM

Re. Ron Carlisle's message below, the photo, taken in Bunnyconnellan in 1969, can now be seen in the picture gallery section of this website,in the old photos page.

From: Nancy Perry Theis in United States
May 13, 2008 - 07:23 PM

My husband Dick and I spent a week at the Bunny in 1992. Became part of the O'Brien family--loved it there so much! I cried all the way to Wexford when we left. We'd love to come back and bring our son Liam!
Best to all there!!!

From: ron carlisle in United Kingdom
April 10, 2008 - 02:53 PM

never expected to see such great photos and memories revived. we spent 4 weeks every summer from late 50's till early 70's in santoy in josie o'regans field at top of the boreen .I have a photo of a group of us 16-18 year olds in bunnys. would love to hear from any one in the photo who are : deirdre,gerry [ murphy ,from london]his brother Declan, their cousin John Horley,kiki , ann, marina, geraldine and don and I have put eric, hughie and brian [ brothers] as ' missing ' from photo. be great to hear from you.
ron