Iúil 2010 July
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1934 - Turas Aniar - 2010

Saithe beacha san aer

Baint an Fhéir

An Clár Abú

Seanscoil Ráth Chairn sna 1920'í

Amhrán pop as Cheanannas Mór
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Fleadh Laighean 2010

1934 - Turas Aniar - 2010

A Swarm of Bees caught on camera

The Haymaking Festival

A Mighty Man From Clare

Rathcarne National School in the 1920's

Pop Song in Irish - from Kells
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Leinster Fleadh 2010

D’fhág siad Leitir Móir ag a 7.30 ar maidin. Rothaí Ráth Chairn agus Chonamara le chéile. Thug siad aghaidh ar mhachaire méithe na Mí i gcuimhne ar na fir óga a rinne an Rothaíocht Mór suas go Baile Átha Cliath ar Dheardaoin Mandála, 1934, ag impí ar De Valera talamh Choimisiúin na Talún a bhí á roinnt amach in oirthir na tíre a thabhairt do mhuintir an iarthair chomh maith. Nuair a shroich siad Baile Átha Buí, bhí slua mór rompu agus lean lucht na ‘High Nellie’s’ iad amach chomh fada le Ráth Chairn, áit a raibh tine cnámh agus féasta ag fanacht rompu.
Sa bpictiúr thall tá fear óg darbh ainm Shane Connolly a bhfuil cónaí air anois san Uaimh. Tógadh pictúir dá sheanathair, Steve Chonn Ó Conghaile a bhí ar an rothaíocht mór ag teacht go BÁC i 1934. Tá an pic. sin anois mar Logo do Ghaeltacht Ráth Chairn.
Tá an pictúir le feiceáil sa nGailearaí ar www.rathchairn.net

They left Leitir Móir ar 7.30 in the morning. Cyclists from Ráth Chairn and Conamara together. They set out for the plains of Meath in memory of the young men who took part in The Great Cycle of Holy Thursday 1934, when they cycled to Dublin to plead with De Valera to include people from the west of Ireland when the Land Commission was dividing up lands in the east. When they arrived in Athboy they were joined by the ‘High Nellie’s’ who followed them as far as Ráth Chairn, where there were big crowds, bonfire, music and feasting.
In the picture above is a young man, Shane Connolly who now lives in Navan. An icon of his grandfather, Steve Chonn Ó Conghaile, who took part in the great cycle and was photographed arriving in Dublin has become the symbol for Ráth Chairn.
The origional picture can be seen on the 'PICTURE GALLER' of www.rathchairn.net

'Tá an sáith mbeachain seo san aer. Tá siad tagthaí amach as ceann de na cuasnóigí orm. Diabhailtí an radhairc é, na mílte beach san aer. B’fhéidir dhá scór míle mbeach, tríocha míle ar aon chaoi. Má bhreathnaíonn tú ar an ngéag anseo thuas, is co-súil go bhfuil an bhanríon théis luí ansin agus tá siad ag cruinniú anois. Tá siad sách ard, ní bheidh sé éasca iad a fháil.'

Chun tuilleadh a fhoghlaim faoi na Beacha, féach ar shuíomh idirlín Chumann Beachairí na Mí http://www.royalcountybeekeepers.com/

'This swarm is now on the wing. They have come out of one of the stocks on me. It’s a marvellous sight, thousand of bees in the air. Maybe 40 thousand, 30 thousand anyway. If you look up at the branch here above, it looks like that the Queen has landed there and they are gathering there now. They are up fairly high, it wont be easy to capture them.'

To learn more about beekeeping, go to the website of The Royal County Beekeepers Association
http://www.royalcountybeekeepers.com/

This Queen has just been marked with a spot of green paint on her thorax. Note that her abdomen is longer than the worker bees. She can lay more than 1000 eggs a day in May/ June. When a colony is fully populated, it can contain up to 80,000 individual bees. If she wasnt' marked it would be almost impossible to find her. A queen can live for 3 years.

Tógadh an pictiúr seo taobh amuigh de Sheanscoil Ráth Chairn siar sna fichidí. Le cúnamh ó Michael Newman , beidh muid in ann formhór de na h-ainmneacha a oibriú amach, amach anseo. Ní raibh an eastáit bríste suas ag an am seo. Tháinig na gasúir seo ó Dhoire Longáin, Baile Bhaird agus Rathoney. Tháinig clann amháin, muintir Cusack, trasna na páirceanna ó Ráth Vale atá ar an dtaobh eile de Ráth Chairn. Deir siad liom go bhfuil Peter Sherlock sa bpictiúr, an bhfuil tú in ann é a fheiceáil? Blianta ina dhiaidh sin, is ann a raibh cónaí ar Bob agus Lilly Mullen, go ndéanamh Dia grásta orthu beirt.