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Old photo turns up after appeal
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A local vintage club is looking for photos and memorabilia connected with the 1954 World Ploughing Championships in Fossa.
Members of Killarney Valley Classic & Vintage Club, who are also members of South Kerry Ploughing, are behind a plan to help National Ploughing Association to build a peace cairn to commemorate the 1954 World Championships that took place in Fossa 65 years ago.
Tom Leslie is a member of both the local ploughing association and the vintage club. He appealed to readers of the Killarney Advertiser to search for artefacts connected to the original event – the second ever World Ploughing Championship – so he could create a display alongside the peace cairn when it gets unveiled on May 11.
As a result, local man Diarmuid O’Mahony found newspaper cuttings of the October 5 1954 edition of the Cork Examiner and dropped it off at the club’s annual run at the Faha Court on Sunday.
“I saw the request in the Killarney Advertiser,” Diarmuid said. “My father is in one of these photos.”
Anyone else with old photos or memorabilia can contact Tom Leslie on 087 238 3809.
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