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Once Upon a Road’ by Joe Harrington, is an account of the very first Butter Road from Kerry to the Cork Butter Market. Its 364 full colour pages and 315 images, maps and photos has been described as a ‘search for the olden days on a sixty-mile journey through 275 years of time’. The road in question is from Ballyduhig outside Listowel, through Castleisland, the western and southern parts of Duhallow including Millstreet and on through Aubane and Vicarstown, to Kerry Pike outside Cork City. It was built as a Tollroad/Turnpike, under a 1747 Act of Parliament, by a John Murphy from Castleisland. There were six toll gates on the Turnpike/Butter Road and they remained in place for sixty one years until 1809.
‘Once Upon a Road‘ dips into the local history of the townlands, towns, villages, and settlements through which the road passes. Every mile on ‘The Road John Murphy Made’ has a story to tell and along the road to Cork we will meet Whiteboys and Hedge Schoolmasters, Freedom Fighters and Moonlighters, Famines and Natural Disasters, Mass Rocks and Wedge Tombs, Bronze age hoards and Bog Butter, Lost Estates and Evicted Tenants. ‘Once Upon a Road’ is a story of many stories.
ORIGINALLY INDEPENDENTLY PUBLISHED IN 2022, THIS IS A BRAND NEW MERCIER PRESS EDITION.
