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...