Archive for January, 2008

History of Desertserges

Monday, 28 January, 2008

A Short History of a Very Long Time at St Mary’s Desertserges, Co. Cork
By Judith F. Hubbard-Jones 2008
Desertserges – meaning ‘Seargus’ or ‘Fergus’ hermitage. This hermit is thought to be a member of the Celtic Christian monastic Community at Kinneigh, believed to have been founded by St Colman around 617/19. We don’t know exactly where [...]

January ‘08 News

Tuesday, 1 January, 2008

Looking Back
Youth Club On 16th November we had sixteen young people from the parish at the second of our occasional Youth Club meetings. I say occasional in two senses. 1) We are still new and feeling our way forward as to what suits in terms of regularity. The pressures put on young people in terms [...]