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August 18, 2008 - 03:30 PM
Roberta from Ireland
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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.
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August 17, 2008 - 03:20 PM
Garry Crowley from United Kingdom
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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...
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July 17, 2008 - 10:38 AM
Kevin Crowley from Ireland
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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...
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June 24, 2008 - 07:12 AM
jonathan from United States
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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.
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June 21, 2008 - 04:35 PM
Tina Shee-Cappieri from Ireland
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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.
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May 13, 2008 - 07:23 PM
Nancy Perry Theis from United States
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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!!!
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April 10, 2008 - 02:53 PM
ron carlisle from United Kingdom
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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
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April 05, 2008 - 07:09 PM
sally from South Africa
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Hi elizabeth, how are you all? What a gorgeous site. Here i am browsing for myrtleville as i feel home sick and long for the front room in myrtleville in front of the roaring fire. Lovely to read about it. Sally Morris (Shams daughter who now owns Myrtleville House). Regards to you and all your boys
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March 15, 2008 - 10:26 PM
Paul from Ireland
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Your site brought back wonderful memories. my late father's uncle built a wooden bungalow overlooking Fennels Bay in the 1920s. Tt was one of the early houses there and I had many wonderful childhood holidays there. There was a magic about the whole place, the long walk from the bus stop at Goat's Cross to our bungalow when we
arrived to start our holiday. Ineveitably the wind would be howling and the rain falling in sheets. Our bungalow had no electricity or running water which made every thing even more exciting. I will always remember the mournful drone of the lighthouse when visibility dropped, the excitement when the big liners dropped anchor just off the harbour entrance and the odd trip on the Lady Mary launch.No holiday would be complete without the trip to the Merries, the walk thru the woods and the ghost stories we told one another to scare ourselves.
Even though it is nearly fifty years since I last had a holiday there, I will always remember the the magic of those times.
Thanks for bringing back old memories.
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March 09, 2008 - 01:16 PM
pat and Margaret from Ireland
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Hi Tina,
Just browsing your site. very impressive. We love it.
Kind Regards, see you all real soon as its nearly that time of year again
love
Margaret And Pat
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