The Board Of Works

From the days when a local Dunmore Man was given a local Dunmore job. Here is a picture of the Men who built the modern Dunmore Harbour . .

These are the Men of Dunmore and the surrounding area. These are the Men of the Board of Works who transformed the old Dunmore Harbour into the fine modern facility that stands there today. Over a period of 10 years or more, they chiselled, and blasted, and moved thousands of tonne's of earth with pics and shovels and cranes and trucks to create and develop the present day harbour at Dunmore.

The Board of Works completed this momentous task with the use of local labour. It will be interesting to see just how many local jobs will be created when the next development of Dunmore Harbour  commences.

What is both beautiful and sad about this picture and this story, is that most of those in the photo have now passed on. There is no mention of their hard work, and no monument sitting on Dunmore pier, dedicated to their years of effort. 

Within the next few years another development will take place at Dunmore and the memories of these Men and what they acheived will be lost in time.

 I can remember as a school child sitting in the Convent School looking out the window on a terrible winters day with the rain lashing, and wind howling and watching my Father and Blue McCarthy wrestling with a wagon drill on top of Shanoon.

There was no wet time or good conditions in those days. Both Men were soaking wet and freezing cold as were all the other drillers on Shannoon on that  particular day

This group shot was taken at the Board of Works annual Dinner Dance held at the Ocean Hotel in the late sixties.

Ringo Regan