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unusual facts about Bernera, Lismore


Berneray

Bernera, Lismore, a tidal island off the south-west coast of Lismore


2010 All-Ireland Colleges Camogie Championship

At the inter-provincial stages of the 2010 competition Blackwater CS, Lismore beat Portumna Community School 3-5 to 0-3 and Loreto, Kilkenny beat St. Patrick's College, Maghera 2-11 to 3-07 in the semi-finals.

Alexander Balloch Grosart

From the Townley Hall collection he reprinted several manuscripts and edited Sir John Eliot's works, Sir Richard Boyle's Lismore Papers, and various publications for the Chetham Society, the Camden Society and the Roxburghe Club.

Alyth

There may have been a Christian presence in this area from early times, since the medieval parish church was dedicated to St. Moluag of Lismore (d. 592), a contemporary of St. Columba.

Battle of Affane

Ormonde mobilised his men to intercept the Geraldines at Affane, a ford over the Finisk tributary of the Blackwater River, in the foothills of the Knockmealdown Mountains near Lismore.

Bishop of Lismore

The Bishop of Lismore, Ireland, a separate episcopal title which took its name after the town of Lismore in County Waterford, Ireland

Cape Byron Light

Construction ended in 1901 and was to be celebrated on 30 November 1901 in a great banquet, with special trains carrying visitors from Lismore and Murwillumbah, at the presence of the Premier of the day, the Hon.

Catald

His monastery was in Lismore, County Waterford but his apparent desire for a life of solitude saw him venture off to Jerusalem on a pilgrimage.

Cecil Bisshopp, 12th Baron Zouche

Thus on his death in 1828 he was succeeded in the Baronetcy (but not the family estate at Parham) by a cousin George Bisshopp Dean of Lismore in Ireland, while the Barony of Zouche once again fell into abeyance, this time between his two daughters Hon.

Clan Stewart of Appin

To the West are islands including the island of Lismore, home to the MacLea and the Baron Buchull, keeper of the Buchull Mhòr (the crosier of St. Moluag), adherents of Appin.

Clarence Moreton Basin

It is located in the far north east of the state of New South Wales around Lismore and Grafton and in the south east corner of Queensland.

Col Maxwell

Born in Lismore in northern New South Wales he played for Bowraville and Coffs Harbour and in Country representative sides.

Con Colleano

He was born Cornelius Sullivan in Lismore, New South Wales, the son of an Irish man and a woman of indigenous descent whose father was of African heritage from St Thomas in the West Indies.

Dull, Perth and Kinross

Compare Appin in Argyll, the 'abbey lands' in that case being those of the major early Christian monastery of Lismore.

Great Bernera

Bernera is also known for its Iron Age (or possibly Pictish) settlement at Bostadh, discovered in 1992 and now covered by sand to preserve it.

Hoxton Park, New South Wales

A further development of note took place circa 1857 with the construction of Bernera, a weatherboard homestead built by Allan Macpherson, son of a former Collector of Internal Revenue, William Macpherson.

Lismore Music Festival

Lismore Music Festival is an annual classical music and opera festival held in Lismore in the Republic of Ireland.

Lismore, Victoria

Notable people from Lismore include Gordon Bryant, a Labor politician and minister in the Whitlam government, Tony Street, a Liberal politician and minister in the Fraser government, Olympic Silver medallist Ji Wallace, and Simon Hussey, who was born in Lismore in 1960, and is a multi ARIA award winning producer and composer for Daryl Braithwaite and James Reyne.

Mairi nighean Alasdair Ruaidh

Most of her life was spent at Dunvegan, Skye, but at one time she was exiled by her chief to Mull for being too profuse in her praise of his relative, Sir Norman Macleod of Bernera.

Miler Magrath

The estate of Lismore had been sold by him to Sir Walter Raleigh for a nominal price, although he kept the capitular seal of Cashel.

National Campus Band Competition

Since then, the National final has travelled around the country (Sydney, Melbourne, Perth, Lismore, Adelaide and Wollongong) and the competition has attracted more and more bands, as well as receiving great kudos from the music industry.

Nitor pudibunda

The species is found in eastern Australia, most commonly along the coasts of Queensland and New South Wales, from Cooloola to Lismore.

North Coast railway line, New South Wales

The first North Coast railway was opened between Murwillumbah, Byron Bay and Lismore in 1894 and extended to Casino in 1903 and Grafton in 1905.

Paul Glynn

Paul Glynn (born in 1928 in Lismore, in New South Wales, Australia) is a Marist missionary priest and writer from Australia.

Pearson's green tree frog

The Pearson's tree frog, (Litoria pearsoniana) is a species of tree frog inhabiting rainforest creeks from north of Lismore, New South Wales, to Kenilworth, Queensland, with a disjunct population at Kroombit Tops Queensland, Australia.

Richmond by-election, 1984

Liberal Party of AustraliaBrian Pezzutti, former national serviceman and president of the Lismore branch of the Liberal Party.

Robert E. Sackley

Born in Lismore, New South Wales, Australia, Sackley was a member of the Northern New Guinea 5th Commando Squadron of the Australian Defence Force during the Second World War.

Shanbally Castle

Shanbally Castle was built for Cornelius O'Callaghan, the first Viscount Lismore, in around 1810.

SS Lake Champlain

On 30 June 1886, she ran aground on the Antrim coast, but was refloated, sold, and renamed Lismore.

Stinson Model A

With posturing from both AOA and Australian National Airways (ANA) to cut into each other’s turf by late 1936, early efforts by ANA to gain a controlling interest in AOA failed, until the tragic losses of VH-UHH Brisbane in the McPherson Ranges on 19 February 1937 and VH-UGG Lismore on 28 March halved AOA’s main-line fleet.

Trinity Catholic College, Lismore

Trinity Catholic College is an independent co-educational secondary college located over two adjacent campuses on the northern fringe of Lismore, New South Wales, Australia.

Yamatotakada, Nara

In 1963, the city of Yamatotakada was established, through the arrangement of an Australian Catholic father, a sister-city relationship with Lismore, New South Wales, Australia.


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