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Today, as we celebrate the third anniversary of Glenmore-History.com we are happy to announce that the blog has had 164,037 views and 48,097 visitors to the site. This post represents the 240th post.

In addition to our weekly posts covering a range of Glenmore items, over the past year we began posting the 1961 list of Glenmore residents made by our founder Danny Dowling (1927-2021). To date we have covered 13 townlands. One of our blog articles caught the attention of the Butter Museum that made a video regarding the theft of Glenmore butter during the War of Independence.

We continue to also post on facebook and add content to our website pages (obits, articles by guest authors) etc. As more information becomes known, or photos are provided etc. we add to previous posts and pages. Thus you should revisit favourite earlier posts as there may be new information of interest.

This past year we were delighted to share a link to a video of Danny from 1991, as well as John Ennett’s “Dancing at Sean Walsh’s.” Technical difficulties with a new video camera and programme have delayed more videos, but we hope to soon work out the difficulties.

Thanks to each and every person who has helped grow Glenmore-History.com, and we remain committed to Danny’s firmly held conviction that historical records should be freely accessible to allow individuals to discover their roots. We were able to meet several visitors over the past year who did trace their roots back to Glenmore.

We have a number of activities planned for the coming year, and our first will be a stand at the Glenmore Christmas Craft Fair & Market on Sunday, 18 December 2022. We hope to have a small display of items from Danny’s collection and items donated over the past year, as well as some old fashion leisure items (books & jigsaw puzzles) for Christmas shoppers. More on future plans in a forthcoming post.

The Glenmore Butter wrapper featured above was saved by Jo Doyle née Mernagh(1932-2021) of Weatherstown, Glenmore kindly donated by her daughter Pat. We featured some of Jo’s work in our post of 15 May 2022.

Dr. Kathleen Moore Walsh