Christmas Greetings

"Traditions over time" 

Wishing you a wonderful happy Christmas, and a healthy, untroubled New Year in 2025!   

This year again we have decided not to send Christmas cards and instead will make a donation to our nominated charity “Cystic Fibrosis Association”. As we’ve done since 2007, we have another "related" Crosshaven land/seascape. This picture was taken on 16 June this year at Coveney Pier on Crosshaven’s Lower Road where you find some of the village’s oldest buildings and pubs. The modern stone wall building on left is the RNLI station.

The photo is taken from a boat on the River Owenabue - anglicised from Irish ‘Abhainn na Baoi’ or on some writings ‘Abhainn Bhuí’, so either River of Bouys or Yellow River. This is during lunch-break for some of the boats crews in the annual Traditional Boat Sail before the Sunday afternoon sail in Cork’s Inner Harbour.

On display were traditional Irish wooden boats, a Cornish lugger and multiple wooden classic yachts. But these were outnumbered by vintage plastic fantasies (glassfibre keelboats were first built around 1936) and those here were not anyway new-fangled but instead what’s termed modern classics.

BTW – the turquoise painted building is The Oar Bar, where many famous singers have sung over the decades including the legendary “Freddie White” from Cobh in the early days of his career.

“Nollaig Shona daoibh go léir”.

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 Photographs of Crosshaven area from Christmas emails of previous years