Fish Roads hosted by Luke Conroy Wright Saul withdrew his golden
rays a mist or set the moon. We dined and hurried on our way
to search the shore full. Soon 3 jolly youths conveyed us
where young lovely females smile.
Where first I saw fair Venus or the flower Shurkin Isle Fair
Venus, That's how sexy she was fair.
Venus like that's mad. On Shurkin, and as we'll see, at
its height there was only 1000 people there, so.
You'd get to know the town fairly quick.
Yeah, and the selection to the people they have, they're all
beautiful. That collector there is John
O'Reilly. He's from Nieves.
Nieves. Counted Nieves.
Hello and welcome to the Pitch Strokes podcast.
Shah Shah, Tommy John Shaw. Kahal is here, Lucas here,
Lucas, and I'm done. KAHALA, San.
I'm done. Dum Dums 2 Dum Dums you.
Have a lovely voice. Oh, look at you.
Oh, I haven't. Done this before.
Before you arrived. I could never do that.
You have a lovely, fair voice. Oh, I'm fair mate.
The Fair Venus we're hopping on this weekend.
It's it's a holiday for us. It mightn't be for many.
It is indeed. We're going dancing.
We're going. Dancing down in Shurkin Isle,
where we're going to meet Venus or the flower.
They're in the aforementioned flower many.
Strangers for to greet. There's tons of strangers there,
but yeah, we're going to Open Air Festival, not sponsor.
I wish to pay for my day. And we said we'd hop on and do a
quick little episode on Shurkin Island, because did you know
about Shirkin Island before this festival?
I didn't. I had no idea really.
Not even 1. I don't think I did, no.
No, I, an old man, came into the place I work and I mentioned I'm
going down to Cork to Shirkin Island and it went, it was like
Shirkin. I haven't heard that place in
years. We went down there.
The only getting serving than of stories.
Because I do think funnily, Irish people probably travelled
within Ireland a lot more for holiday destination things,
whereas now it was more in vogue in the last however many years
to go out and about the onset of the plane and the ferry changes.
Travel much around Ireland when you were younger, whenever the
recession hit and it was like, right?
We're going to. We're going to Bundora.
Bundora was the big. Spot.
Brilliant. Yeah, that was.
Great, I have fam up there too. So I used to like going to
Bundora and I associate it with the song We Will Rock you
because that roller coaster, you know they're like 1 where it
spins like the the other one that spins on a flat.
They just used to Blair. We Will Rock you.
Shurkin, it's one of the most southernmost parts of Ireland.
It's down in Cork and it's just beyond Baltimore.
But yet locals. When I first went to Shurkin
Island for the festival like 2 years ago, people kept saying
the word it's a microclimate down here, it's a microclimate.
I didn't know if they were just bragging because it was sunny
that day. I.
Feel like everyone remembers the first time you heard like
someone was like the micro climate down there.
Yeah, yeah. I mean it is interesting.
It has, it's like it's, I thought there was just one
climate, but microclimates. I believe it's to do with
mountains generally. And there's no yeah.
So the clouds are the island is protected by mountains, so the
clouds and the rain goes before and then sometimes you get
different and get different temperatures because it's
protected. That's fly.
But yeah, we heard about microclimates and then finally
in fly. That's fly.
Yeah, I'm trying to be in. I'm microclimate of flat.
Hades hip hop star. What was it?
Yeah, even on the Wikipedia, which is really fun.
And you know when it says like source not included, like where?
It's like dangerous information. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
It says all that local like that.
Oh, oftentimes when the lawns are white in Baltimore, you look
across the shirk and you can see that the lawns over there are
green. Historically speaking, it's a
small little island. It was a strategic stronghold
for the Odriscoll clan. So they had several castles
along the Cork islands when the likes of Cape Clear and such,
and they used these forts to to their advantage to essentially
tax people on their way in. Anyone that was getting into
Baltimore, you had to go by these islands or rob stuff.
Pirates plunder the ships, and this will kind of.
Island has a piratey past. It has a piratey past and a pub
currently called the Jolly Roger.
It's up for sale on Daft. So after this episode, if you
ever want to live on Shirkin Island, why not by the pub?
Why not give it to me? The island's name it comes.
Obviously it's Shirkin Island, but it comes from Inish Arkin,
so obviously it's a bastardization of the name, eh?
But islands of Arkin and Arkin? It likely derives from an early
word for piglet, piglets, so the island of piglets.
But many believe that's refers instead to sea pigs, which is
what people used to call porpoises.
It's it's a very normal assumption.
Unless they just had a pile of pigs on the island, you never
know. O'Driscoll could have been rare.
And pigs. Yeah, could have.
But I like the ideal the idea. And just piglets, there's no
like they don't grow up. This is disabled youth for for
poor poison, poor poises. Cheering and all for yeah, Four
voices for Pigs. It's beautiful.
Seaside superstitions Here's a superstition Any Carpenter who
strikes a blow on a coffin won't get a job making a.
Boat. That's true, I've seen it myself
in my own life and that came from Konko bar Oriuka.
Great name. Konko Bar.
September 1933. But yeah, I'd say any Carpenter.
Yeah. Who?
Feckin. And strikes a blow like they
just feck it up or. Or maybe, or is it just easy
being like, if you put who, if you build a coffin, because
obviously you have to hammer them together.
Hmm. So maybe it's like any Carpenter
who builds A coffin can't build a boat because I imagine the
superstition is like, if you're building, if you're building
coffins, yeah. You're building?
Yeah, exactly. You're not, I'm not getting into
any boat. I'm not that you're.
Like in coffins sink. That's it.
There would be a brother. There's the brother, the brother
that does boats, and the brother.
That does coffee. Yeah, I do boats.
Yeah, yeah, yeah. Me brother's been doing coffins
but I'm one of the rogue ones. Yeah, I do.
Boats. I do boats.
Oh no, I don't know this one, but nobody wants to go fishing
on the first day of the season or on Friday.
A rat on board is lucky and it's not right to speak.
I've heard of this or a of a pig or a priest on board a boat.
A pig or a priest? Isn't there that thing?
And I remember there used to be a thing of like, didn't some
sailors get like chickens tattooed onto their their
ankles? Chickens because it's like good
look like chickens don't drowned.
As in I think it comes from this is not true.
I think it was like if there was a shipwreck, the fish, they're
not the fish, the chicken would somehow survive.
OK, so they just dissociated. Do chickens float?
Are they like ducks? Maybe there's some reason or
some. Silly, you need myth Busters.
Myth Busters do chickens float? But yeah, you're not don't talk
about pigs or priests on board about.
So this is almost like Macbeth, if you get me of like, you know,
people say the Scottish plants have Macbeth.
When a priest is spoken of on the boat, he is called a
babashti. No.
A babashti no. So you can't say a priest on a
boat and I won't anymore. And that came from.
Concubar A babashti no Baba Baba stino.
Yeah, like why? Why?
You just can't say the word priest.
So if you want to have a conversation on the boat about a
priest, OK, you said the Baba Steena.
The Baba Steena while you're. Holding your lucky rat.
Yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
And you have to leave your favorite pig at home.
Can't get to see that. I think of your lovely pig.
I wonder how that develops. Like why does a priest not want
you to talk about him? Or is there just something
happened where some fellow was talking about this priest?
I assume. The more badge, no more, and it
went down terribly on the ocean for some reason.
My thinking is that, yeah, like maybe even this is like a silly
version of a but like the same way that the Carpenter builds A
coffin. Can he make a boat?
Because the coffin is obviously associated with death.
Yeah, I don't want maybe similarly talking of a priest.
It's kind of like you're asking for something.
You're asking for the need for a priest.
In the yeah, yeah, that's true. Yeah, maybe that's true.
Yeah. Fuck, I don't even want to talk.
Yeah. Yeah, I'm those pigs.
The seal, the man, the woman. Long ago in the northern side of
Shurkin, on a stormy night, a man by the name of Glanine went
out looking for a wreck, and on going around the points he saw
on the rocks a woman combing her hair.
He went towards her and put his hand on her shoulder.
She threw back her hair and looking up at him said as you
put your hand on me, now you'll have to marry me.
He said. He was satisfied, but before
they were married he had to make 3 promises never to kill a black
sheep. Don.
Never to invite a landlord to dinner.
No, no, no. And never to kill a seal.
Now you're asking for two months.
He promised to keep all three. They lived very happily together
and had three children. One morning he said he would go
wrecking Wrecking, a local name for the timber that has washed
ashore after a storm. I like that they explained that
after using the word alright earlier in this.
Life, that's what. It is.
I was like, what the hell is this?
Go wrecking. He met a seal which was resting
on the sand and did not notice the tide going from it.
The seal was quite alive when he met him.
The man slipped around to a boat in the vicinity, having procured
an oar. He returned and killed the seal
and brought it home in his back. That's he's broken his promise.
I don't know what he was thinking.
Yeah. And do people eat seals?
Awesome. Was it, I suppose, back in the
day, what we did? I'd say so.
And he could, yeah, you could use all sorts for a seal.
But like it seems to be the mythology just continues to say,
second, Irish people don't eat seals, don't be killing, bad
things will happen. But anyway.
That is when the wife told you not to.
She said not to. He went in and threw the seal on
the floor. You're happy with that?
Yeah. He was a.
You never listened to me. You never listened.
He literally like if that's one way of just saying I wanted
them. All that's it.
That's so funny. He's like, we're done.
Poof. And I killed a black sheep the
landlord's on his way over. Yeah, he just caught the
landlord. Yeah, he's.
Covered get the dead already. You love Seal he.
Could eat seal. He went in and threw the seal on
the floor. I noticed in the dead carcass.
The wife hurried in its direction and kneeling down,
took hold of one of the seals paws, muttering at the same
time. Lappa lappa adrehor a creheus.
I'm wearing the crow. The wife then asked her husband
three times for a kiss, but he refused.
Tis well for you, she said, licking around her mouth as far
as her tongue would go. For I would bite that much out
of you before I'd go. She kissed her five children in
succession and went back to the place where her husband first
met her, then, taking a little bundle from her pocket, shook
it, and immediately a Black Horse came to the rock.
She jumped on his back and was never seen again.
Location Nieves Candy Cork teacher Richard Mccarta.
Some brilliant names right there, Richard.
McCarthy maybe restart, restart I am restart Maharth I've seen
restart once and I think it's cool.
I do think it might be the Irish for Richard maybe.
I'm wrong? Restart.
It's cool though, isn't? It sounds very almost like ice.
Those lamps are we start. Yeah, like.
That's a wild story though, isn't it?
Where the vibe I got at the beginning I thought she was
going to be the mammy of the seal, but then she kissed the
five kids goodbye. And she was asking her husband
three times for a kiss, but he refused.
I think it was some weird. I think she's a witch anyway.
She was going to bite him. I think if he had came in for
the kisses, came in for the kisses and she actually would
have fucking ate him, Yeah, what I like bit the jugular out of.
Him, yeah. Or something like she was.
He broke the promise, killed his dudes and.
Like. She got a bundle of sticks from
her pockets and that's what caused the Black Horse to come
and pick her up. But it's serious.
Umm, the fact that he just said, you know what?
I'll kill a seal and I won't do discreetly in any way.
Stroll on the ground, stroll on, slap it onto the wooden ground
or whatever. Yeah, if therapy had existed
before this, he would have realized.
Yeah, you need. You want to leave your wife?
Yeah, he's like, wait, what? He's.
Fine, I've just been drinking tongue killing black sheep
seals. It's fine, it's fine.
I love her. And I love going out wrecking.
Wrecking all the time, yeah, yeah.
So lapa lapa, I didn't try. I'm not good at Irish as you
know, but it seemed to translate on Google as oh poor the killer.
My heart sings so merry. Protect us.
There you go, bringing us into that call, the animals of
Shurkin. The animals of Shurkin.
And as you can imagine with a little small island, not a whole
pile of land mammals. So there's a black sheep.
That's what they say. There's a seal.
That's why he would have killed a black sheep if he could.
He definitely. Couldn't he only find seals?
Yeah, there was some foxes, a few hairs and the likes.
There's three different species of bat.
But out to the sea is where you'll find all the good stuff.
You'll find common dolphins. And I find they're so common.
The Shark and Island website says that sometimes the sea
looks like it's boiling. Oh, wow.
With dolphins. That's that's amazing.
You have many. Feck and all those other There's
Bottlenose ones, the non common ones, and there's really sauce
dolphins. Bubbling with dolphins.
Bubbling with the bubbling, the most common whale is mink whale,
and humpback whales have also become regularly active over the
place. Lastly, you'll see fin whales.
They'll locals, they'll uh, they're the second biggest
whale, aren't they? The Finn whale.
They can reach 30 meters in length.
Read me the Sherkin Serpent, please.
The Sherkin Serpent. It sounds great.
The Sherkin. It sounds like a good pub.
It does. I'm going.
To take the Jolly Roger and. Turn it into this Sherkin
Serpent. The Sherkin Serpent Some few 100
years ago, there lived in Sherkin a serpent who tormented
the people. One morning a priest went
shooting, as it was usual for him to do, and the search the
serpent at once tried to torment.
Not funny that that Brock. He was always out shooting this.
Fucking priest seals the serpent at once, tried to torment him.
The priest loaded his gun and turning to where it lay
wriggling on the bank, shot it. The hollow stone form of this
serpent is still to be seen. A giant who lived on Mount
Gabriel used to throw stones over at the serpent.
One of these stones bears the print of his fingers.
This stone is near the bog which is called Fordray and I looked
into the Irish. I think for like Ford can mean
Pete so it makes sense it's the bog.
So I'd say it's like a plane of Pete is the Irish for that.
Another deep hole is called the horses hole.
For one time a horse was feeding there, and he slipped into the
hole in the evening when the people went searching for the
horse and could not find him. After a while they heard him man
in the hole. Then they procured sticks and
ropes and tried to pull him out, but the ropes broke and he fell
farther and farther down the hole.
After some time there he died. It is said that it is said that
the place was haunted in quotation marks.
The place was then covered with stone slabs so that no animals
would ever be in danger anymore. And that location there again is
need. I like that the priest this is
like, you know, they usually hear what Saint Patrick and a
giant snake and he banishes them.
What is his umm his staff, his staff.
They sit a priest with a. Gun the more modern version that
I think that's a brilliant one. It reminded me of umm, I don't
know to know when Jesus heads into the desert, he's getting
tempted by the devil. Just imagined Jesus just
shooting him with the. Fact that he's glocked, I would
I'd play that game. Yeah, I would too.
These priests are badass though. My God.
You can definitely see there's a different energy of a priest in
the stories in Dukas than there is in present day, where the
priests are like, might as well be The Avengers.
Yeah, different. You know what I mean?
Saints and priests that are ganging together to save Ireland
from big snakes. So and the hollow stone form of
the serpent is there to be seen. So I have to look for these.
Do you? Think the lore will be there?
Like I'd love to ask a local, yeah.
Where's the whole? Where's the whole The horse?
Where's the haunted horse hole? There's a whole on them like
ours. Oh, you know, I'm sorry guys.
That one came from Richard. Restart again.
So very happy to. Restart is a good man.
Do you like me to go through some birds, or would you like to
list some birds? Do you want to go back and
forth? Yeah, Skylark.
Chuck. Raven.
Tip Chuff. Sand Martin.
With EAR. Favorite Harry Potter character
Swallow grasshopper warp. Oh, grasshopper warfare, The
Willow Warbler. Hey, you skip.
Sorry, said the zedge warp. Let's start again.
We're gonna do it again, so. Skylark, I'll do you start Black
Cap cuckoo. White throat.
Zedge, Warbler. Fulmer.
Cormorant. Shag.
OK, Black Guillemont. Common Scoter Puffin sandwich
turn. Great Northern diver shell duck,
red breasted Merganzer. Wimbrel.
The Pomeran. The Pomeran Skua.
Little bittern. Stone Kurlu.
Hoop hoop hoopo. Hoopo.
The Woods Chat Shrake. Manx Searwater.
The Gannett. Kitty wake.
The European storm petrol suti A shearwater.
Great Sukua. The.
Arctic great. SCUA great.
Scua there. The Arctic SCUA.
Corey's Shearwater. Mediterranean Shearwater.
Wilson's Petrel. Grey follow rope.
Long tailed scua. Sabine's goal fees.
Petrel. The Rhine Neck.
Yellow brown wobbler. The fine Crest.
Chimney Swift. Palaces Warbler.
Seren. Rustic Bunting.
Red diver. Guillemot, Razor, Bell, Widgin,
the Cousin White cousin of the Pigeon.
Gadwall. Whooper, Swan.
Mediterranean gull. The Iceland gull.
Galaka skull. Galaka skull Little.
Gull. Ring build goal.
Yellow legged goal. Ivory goal.
That's, you know, you. Look a bit of bird.
It's a lot of birds. You look at a bird.
Yeah. And you look at the bird.
Yeah. You know what I mean?
Like A and there's someone around to them.
Look at them. Have you?
I've been mad into the the Merlin.
If anyone doesn't have Merlin ID they should get into it.
It's really fun. Tap your tap a button and it'll
let the AI or something listens and it detects which bird is in
your location and you see who you're having a coffee with.
That's what I'd be doing. I'd be sitting be thinking, oh,
there's the Robin, there's the the warbler, there's the shell
duck. I haven't got a shell duck yet
though. Well, down in down in sharkin.
We'll get them, yeah. You'll be sharkin.
You're gonna. Collect all these.
Do I collected some facts of the most interesting of these birds?
The Hooper Swan migrates to Ireland from Iceland every
winter, travelling over 1000 kilometers.
That is brave. Insane.
Imagine all the people that volunteered or kidnapped
themselves away to Iceland, the old Irish back in the day and
you're missing home and you start to see the whoopers swab.
Yeah, yeah. The grey follow rope which
unlike most birds, the females are brighter than males and
compete for mates and while the males raise the chicks.
Oh there you go, the Cho, or how would you pronounce it CHOUGH?
It's Ireland's only crow with bright red bill and legs so, and
it's haunting calls along Atlantic cliffs that I just love
that it's a reddened crow if they're beaking their legs.
Ah, real red. Oh, that's I can't wait to see
him and Mank Shearwater, that he can travel thousands of
kilometers across the Atlantic, returns to the exact same
borough every year, usually coming home, coming ashore at
night. That's crazy.
What if they lose their Burrow? I suppose they don't.
It's pretty sweet. The Great Northern Diver, one of
the most striking winter sea birds in Irish waters.
It's got a dagger like Bill and it's eerie.
Calls have inspired North American legends, which I
thought was inciting, exciting and finally Pomerine Scua.
And it's a fierce pirate of the sea.
It chases down gulls and turns until they drop their food and
they steal it mid air. Isn't that cool?
That is cool. That's their only, that's their
game. They're robbers.
Which brings us on perfectly to our own pirates.
By the medieval period, shuriken had become one of the of the
strongholds of the Odriscoll clan.
They were seafaring Gaelic rulers who dominated the eastern
side of Roaring Water Bay. Their wealth came from the
control of the fisheries there and the shipping routes enough
to maintain fleets of galleys in, poured wine from France and
Spain, and build a chain of castles along western Cork on
Cherkin itself. Their Paris centred on Dunalong,
the 4th of the ships. Dunalong.
Dunalong rose on Sherkin's northern shore and overlooked
the narrow channel between the island and mainland, so from
there anything entering into the waters of Roaring Water Bay
could be watched, challenged or seized.
Oh, Driscoll's Prosperity, they mainly actually raided and
relations with the Anglo normal ports to the east, especially
Waterford, swung constantly between unease and I write
piracy. So merchant vessels would be
heading over to Waterford and a big problem happened where
essentially they seized a pile of wine, they robbed them, they
robbed the Waterford clan of Normans and they got really
peeved and it exploded into a war called the battle of the
wine barrels over the 1537. So a Portuguese ship, the Santa
Maria de Saki was carrying wine from libs Lisbon.
Imagine you're still in Waterford excited for your wine
and they sold shelter in Baltimore harbor.
But the address goes sample the cargo and the abandoned any
presence of safe conduct and inviting the merchants to
dinner. Yeah, they had a sample of it.
So this is good. They brought the wine merchants
in for dinner in the castle and then clasped them in irons and
seized the ship and the wine. It says 72 tons of wine were
distributed among their allies and neighbors and the Tun.
What didn't? We do, Didn't do.
Anything. It's a bit of a bit too much
wine and suddenly you're worn with water for.
Yeah, what did I do last night? Why is Waterford here still
hold? Empty.
Like why am I in Waterford? So the water for the authorities
captured the vessel and what remained of the cargo, and on
the 27th of March 1537, they launched a massive reprisal
against Shurkin. So the assault lasted for five
days. They destroyed Dunalong and they
destroyed the Friary and they burned it.
They battered it, they destroyed it.
And the attackers, the attackers carried off Finniano Driscoll's
galley, his. So they just stole everything.
Well, to be fair though, kind of deserved it.
Including its bell. They took our bell.
They took our bell you. Couldn't even ring a bell
anymore. So yeah, they rebuilt the
castle, but to be honest, after that point, they were never the
Odyskos were never as powerful as they once wore, and so that
end ended the the great Reign. Of the.
Seaside pirates. Wow, there.
You go, we can go see. That it's rare.
I think of those kind of like, I wouldn't have thought Shurkin.
There was a great big battle on this feckin island.
Like and I bet it was just but it would have been crazy if
you're living on a little sleepy island.
Next thing the water for Anglo Norman's are.
Yeah, coming off and I think that's they hadn't a clue
themselves. It was all up for grabs with.
Bing bang, boom, you took my wine and I took their wine.
I robbed that wine from Lisbon and you robbed it.
For me. I'm going to.
Rob, you taking your belt? Would you like to read The Wreck
of the Little Florence? It's fun.
The wreck of the Little Florence On the 23rd of April 1893, the
Little Florence of Newry foundered with all hands between
the Nedge and Whale Rocks as she was coming from the fishing
ground in Sotherly Gale. All the boats went to different
harbours. Only one, the Eleanor of Shurkin
that came to Baltimore saw her crew in the water, but there was
a terrible storm so they could not have rescued the drowning
men. Betty O'Driscoll.
She from Kilmona, and it's not
mad. Imagine seeing a boat getting as
far as the shore. You just can't do nothing.
Yeah, watch them go. Yeah, that'd be annoying.
Yeah, and I wonder why it's called the Little Florence.
What do they know about Florence?
I suppose it's 1893. Sorry, a little boat stuck on
the rocks with no help. Nowhere to go.
I don't know if this is just another shipwreck, don't know if
it's interesting. It was a steam ship.
That's interesting enough, I suppose.
The Steamship in Sewald left Liverpool on December the 20th,
1900. She was bound for the Hampton
Roads of South America. I'm passing the Fastnet. 2 days
after she left Liverpool a terrific northwesterly gala
rose, causing her to break her propeller shaft.
She was driven helplessly before the wind down the Bay north of
Cape Clear, and about 10:00 that night she struck the rocks north
of Shurkin. The people of the island saw her
distress signals and they hurried to where she was.
With the aid of ropes and a boat they succeeded in taking off all
the crews safely. The crew were taken to the
houses on the island. The Airs Wild was not refloated
until March 18th, 1901, and during that time there were
divers working underwater repairing holes in the bottom.
Wow, isn't that insane. Wow, how do they do that
actively while the shit's in the water?
She was then towed off by tugboats and taken to Rushbrook
docks to be refitted for sea again.
Sometime afterwards, it appeared in the papers that she was lost
in the English Channel with all hands in the winter of 1902.
Which does that mean with all hands?
Does that mean everyone on the boat was dead?
Oh, dead, but the people are. Circulating with all hands.
That's what I'm guessing. OK to Shurkin Island people
saved the crew this time. Yeah.
And once again from Neves Kente, Cork.
What? Our old friend restart.
Restart is the man used to find these men.
Shake their hand. Shake them we need.
To shake their hand. Sir, I want to shake your hand.
Shurkin Abbey. This is a very short one, yeah.
In Shurkin Abbey, there's a wishing chair in Shurkin Island.
It is situated on the top of the Abbey and there's a graveyard
around it. It is a very high.
It is so high. That's from Castle Townsend,
Candy Cork. The teacher there was Shawn on
Donovan and. And yeah, I want to find a
wishing chair. Yeah, there's a wishing chair in
Dublin Zoo. Do you ever go to that was
again? No, I didn't.
I think it's a wishing wishing tree where I'm from in Dundee
and you put little dodies on it. Oh, for the babies.
So if you find a little dodie, you just stick it?
Yeah, it's strange. Yeah.
And then the tree fell, so we have to make a new tree.
A Dodi, by the way, is a pacifier for all you Americans
out there. Dodi.
Dodi I love. Dodi is a word I love.
Mala play DoH mala oh.
It's beautiful, isn't it? The little bit of fucking not
even Irish. Dodi isn't an Irish.
Word is this. No, it's just a little
euphemism. Yeah, euphemism something.
It just sounds better than pacifier.
Pacify my. I want to pacify the child.
Let me pacify you. Sit still so I that's what your
mouth takes the pill. That's what Glonny said to the
seal before. I need to pacify.
You must be pacified. You little piglet.
The chalice. There are not many known hidden
treasures around this place, but long ago, a chalice was supposed
to be hidden in Shark and Abby. You know when I bet it was
hidden Pesky angle Norman's. From I reckon so.
Wreckin size so they said. The chalices and bells were
taken, but this one, this one survived. 1 morning a lot of men
went to work digging in search of it, and they found it bright
and shining at the foot of a Cliff.
So they threw it off a Cliff, probably, didn't it.
Maybe that's it and they went and got it, that collector where
there was Donald all in on from Donegal, West of County Cork.
I didn't know Cork Cork's a prior place.
They've put the whole of Donegal.
There is a graveyard in Shirkin Island, and near the gate of it
there were two Gable ends of an old building, but sixty years
ago one of the Gables fell. It was always believed that
fairies used to dwell in the old house, so the people were afraid
to remove the fallen stone. Finally, a fairy.
Finally. We got first one we need to
perfect. There was a Protestant man
living in the neighborhood. Finally, a Protestant and.
He was in court. And he was building a house.
He gathered some of the stones where they were five building
stones and he carried them home. But whatever was the 'cause he,
he was seen the following morning putting the stones back
again in the Gable. Nobody ever touched them since,
and they are lying there yet where they fell when the Gable
fell. So we don't even hear what
happened to him. That can he they just saw him
that he. He they saw him taking the
stones. Something happened.
He was like on a strikes. Day he was bringing them back on
a small island. The ghosts are smaller too.
They don't do as. Much as much.
Except that woman. She was cool.
Who had the Black Horse? Umm, hardships the Shurkin
priest. In a little thatched cabin near
the town of Baltimore there lived a man named John
O'Driscoll and his wife, Nora O'Driscoll.
It happened at that time that Nora O'Driscoll, whilst in
delicate health, gave birth to a child.
After a child being born, she happened to get worse.
Her husband got very much alarmed, and though she would
have the doctor. The Doctor arrived and examined
Miss O'Driscoll, and ordered to send for the priests
immediately. Funny, they're O'driscolls.
I wonder if the descendants is the curse upon them.
Yeah, so he sent a messenger to the priest house in wrath, and
the priest was suffering with rheumatics at the time and was
unable to attend the patient, but said he would go in the
morning if possible. The priest needs a doctor, and
the doctor needs a priest. Fuck.
Me in the meantime. They're just chasing after.
He's got rheumatics, they're constantly in the meantime,
there was a rage and storm and though Jesus well, in the
meantime there was a raging storm that there were sea
mountains. Sea, mountains high.
That's what you used to call waves, Sea mountains high in the
harbour of Baltimore. John O'Driscoll thought it too
long to wait for the priest until morning.
No one would care to venture to the island of Shurkin that night
for the priest that was there. Miss O'Driscoll was asked did
she know any person that would go?
And she said she had a nephew that would do anything she asked
of him. Wow good nephew.
He was sent for and asked would he ventures A shirtgun for the
priest and he said he would. They love to how they don't
leave any detail on 30. Two get this check and.
Phrase. You know, this child, actually,
he went there. He'd go with me.
So they went to the athletes that he'd go like talking to
someone else. Yeah.
So he went. Thought about it for a while,
scratched his head. Yeah, so it's his eye.
Actually stopped his legs. So he went out in a small boat,
and so terribly frightened of being being lost in the way,
that he said he would not venture back again.
He told the priest of the case on shuriken, and asked him did
he know any person on the island that would row him to the pier.
He got some fellows, and when they came near the shore they
were afraid to venture. So the priest went himself in
the middle of the storm, and before he was gone far from the
shore, he was drowned. That's terrible, He.
Should have brought his gun. He should have shot this feckin
with seamount. Seaman Missile Driscoll, who was
still suffering in Baltimore, thought it too long until the
priest would arrive. Miss O'Brien, the housekeeper,
was getting worried that the priest was not coming.
She was praying in the kitchen when the priest arrived.
He opened the door and said God bless all here.
He pulled his overcoat across the back of a chair and went to
the woman's bedroom and anointed her.
When he was finished he went out into the storm again.
Then Miss O'Driscoll turned her face to the wall and died.
She died, died next morning. The priest in her wrath came to
anoint Miss O'Driscoll, and they told him she was anointed last
night by the priest in shuriken at 11:30.
I'm sorry to say, said he, he was drowned at that very time
coming into the pier. The time is not known when this
happened, but it is a long time. That is from.
Marie de Burka, Baliya Baliotera What was Randall Tuberk?
Randall that's crazy. That is a It's a lovely story.
It's a real. Tragic tragedy.
Tragedy wasn't. But isn't it amazing now they
kind of spoiled the ending for us that the priest spirit seemed
to go over. You know what I mean?
So he drowned, but somehow he appeared.
Is that it? That's what happened, Yeah.
So the priest done Shurkin. He went on his boat right from
Shurkin. When the young nephew went over
and said, jeez, I'm not going back on that.
The priest said, I'll go on my own.
Yeah. And he went over.
Now, forget what you know. From all intents and purposes
then in the story, priest arrives to the dying woman,
anoints her and then leaves again.
So then the the priest from the mainland comes with all next
more and said sorry I'm late. And they're like no, she's
already dead. And the shark and priest
anointed them. Yeah.
But then the priest goes, that's impossible, he drowned on the
way there. Oh my.
God, I told the story better than.
I got a bit. I honestly got a bit lost there.
No, because they should know. They shouldn't have said they
gave away the fact he drowned too early.
Yeah. The same anyway.
So that his spirit, his spirit went and anointed her.
There you go. That's wonderful.
That's the thing of isn't it funny?
Priests are different these days.
That's the thing. Mike then the that can anoint
you even if they were dead. Now it's hard to get a priest to
anoint me toe. That's our Sharkin, guys.
Sharkin, it's a lesser known. There's so many places in our
lovely little country. There is.
You could go down for a trip, they get AB and B down in
Shurkin Island. You could go with open air next
year. You could.
We're going. Technically go this year but
there's no tickets left so don't.
Don't. If you ever want to go on a busy
time of year in Shurkin, I'd recommend even going at a quiet
time. But they say that there's this
Shurkin or Regatta festival. So a rowing festival that
happens in late July or early August and you'll see people see
rowing around the island. There's children activities,
music and food stalls. I love islands.
I find obviously Ireland is an island in itself, but when you
have like lots of different islands going.
Around, yeah. Little you get their own little
subcultures and. Island life is fun like I went,
and it makes everything more special because if there's only
100 people, it's the same as little local area.
There's a Frenchman down there I rumored to hear he used to own
the Jolly Roger, which is the pub down there.
He's just posted up. I don't know if he does it all
the time or just when that festival comes around, he'll
just open up a little van and go.
I'm going to make some steak sandwiches.
Yeah. Charge cash in hand.
Perfect. Give me some, give me some
money. That's gumption.
I want a gumption. I walked down the lane, there
was a woman who cooked cakes, baked cakes, and she just said
give me what you think. I love the worst that's
spirited, which is scary. Sometimes, but I gave.
Her, yeah. Yeah, I gave her $0.05 on the
way. That's around €100 worth of
cake. You're lovely.
Guys visit an island. This is my big My big thing for
this episode called IS Go Somewhere Mad and Ireland
somewhere you don't even know the name.
Yes, don't, don't make assumptions about this land.
Go to Akna Kunar, don't even know that exists.
Go to Go to Licky Licky Nellies. Go to Licky Nellies.
Go to. Bali phallus, Bali, sit down,
have a pint. Don't break for the curse.
What is it that don't? Kill a seal.
Don't kill a seal and throw it down on the floor.
That's my advice for this episode, guys.
Have a great sunny weekend. Yes, have a great one.
See you on the island. See you on the island.
Music by Gareth Quinn Redmond. Photography by Alan Omaraku The
summer shone brightly on the parish of Lachine.
Oar hill and Dale and valley lay a mantle of pure green.
The Sabbath bells being chiming. We went and prayed awhile.
Then I said to a welcomed friend, We'll stray to Churkin
Isle, the boat we anchored at the dock and hurried on to meet
the loving hearts that always flocked to the strangers fore to
grease, then to the inn to get a drink.
We marched in double file, but then I had not hoped to find the
flowers. Sure can Isle.