Msgr. Eamonn (Ned) Goold, PP Midleton, celebrated the Golden Jubilee of his ordination to the priesthood in 2015 and, on 26th September 2015, he celebrated a special mass for the occasion at the Church of the Most Holy Rosary, Midleton, which was followed afterwards by a social gathering at the Midleton Park Hotel.
As the occasion drew near, ideas for a suitable presentation to mark the occasion, were discussed among the organisers. This brought East Cork Camera Group into the story as it was felt that an image of the Holy Rosary Church, a building that means quite a lot to Msgr. Goold, would be very appropriate. ECCG member, Michael Fenton, floated the idea to us and we were quite sure we would have an image to suit in our archive as we had photographed the church only twelve months earlier.
On Saturday 11/10/2014, during our Photo Walk in Midleton, Msgr. Goold was kind enough to allow us photograph the interior of the church and was in the gallery beside us when ECCG member, Finbarr O’Shea made the image below, a striking and faithful rendering of the beautiful building.
The decision was made and, before long, the image was enlarged on a 24″ gallery-style design with appropriate text and finished with a golden frame which picked up the tones in the image and echoed the significance of the occasion. The presentation was made by Noel Ryan of the Midleton Parish Pastoral Council.
East Cork Camera Group is honoured to be associated with the event and wish Msgr. Goold the very best of good health and happiness for the future.
ECCG members, Denis Barry, Anthony O’Connor, Finbarr O’Shea and Michael Fenton were delighted to attend and photograph both the mass and social gathering, from which, a full gallery of images can be seen by clicking here. Enjoy!
The St. Patrick’s Day Parade in Midleton went off in style on the Main St. on 17/3/15 and ECCG were there to capture the highlights.
Our first stop was to take photographs at the bridge over the Owenacurra River. After that, we made our way to the Farmer’s Market located off the Hospital Road to capture the hustle and bustle there. Every Saturday people throng to this area to purchase a variety of locally produced foods and other gourmet specialties from local farmers and food producers. Here we took a lot of images of an array of colourful stalls and their produce together with capturing the vibrancy and buzz of people meeting up to chat and spend time in this thriving environment.
From the Farmer’s market we proceeded to the top of the Main Street taking shots of notable historic buildings mainly the imposing red brick and terra cotta structure of the AIB building built in 1899 and located opposite the Courthouse. As we walked down the Main Street we stopped to take photos of the various shops and side streets as well as people who were happy for us take their photos. Another historic building on our route along the Main street was the Library (previously the Town Hall) built in 1789 and identifiable by a weather cock of larch on top of the clock tower. Some of us made our way to Distillery Lane and onto The Jameson Experience taking shots of the large copper pot still outside the main building there.
Around 1pm we made our way up St Mary’s Road to the Catholic church of the Most Holy Rosary, a large grey limestone building distinguished by a 166 foot spire. The Church interior was awesome with its Gothic style of pointed arches and curved lines, timber ceilings and decorated stone and granite pillars. We momentarily took shots of this magnificent interior before being met by Monsignor Goold who allowed us entry to the upstairs choir gallery. Once we made our way up the spiraling stone stairway, we were able to take shots from a higher angle with a panoramic view of the total Church with the altar and wood carved pulpit and decorated tile flooring in the centre against a background of magnificent large stained glassed windows. Behind us was the large pipe organ in the Gallery originally built in the 1800’s undertook a major rebuild in 2009.
When finished at the Church we made our way down to the next stop of our photo walk which was the St John the Baptist church located in Church Lane. This church was erected in 1825 and is believed to be built on the site of the Cistercian Abbey. At this location shots were taken of the graveyard and the interior of the church with its arched stained glass windows, rows of pews and 3 aisles to the carved oak screen and pulpit at the top end of the church.