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09 Ploughing Championships

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  • 06-09-2008 2:02pm
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    fastrac
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    Can anybody confirm That the 2009 Ploughing championships will be held around Tralee?


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    carchaeologist
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    fastrac wrote: »
    Can anybody confirm That the 2009 Ploughing championships will be held around Tralee?
    I doubt it very much,where did you hear that?


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    byhookorbycrook
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    try contacting the co. sec of the NPA
    He'd know for sure
    Kerry:
    Brendan Blackwell, Rathoneen, Ardfert, Co. Kerry
    066-7134130


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    fastrac
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    2009 ploughing in Athy.Maybe next year!


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    kerry4sam
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    fastrac wrote: »
    Can anybody confirm That the 2009 Ploughing championships will be held around Tralee?

    I can't honestly find anywhere suitable anywhere in Kerry for Ploughing Championships (offhand anyways) so doubt they will be in kerry at all ... don't see where suitable* land would be located
    *suitable mainly on the grounds of size, even Tralee race-course wouldn't be large enough


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    overexcitedaj
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    Ive heard that they will be held in Ardfert in 2010


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    road_high
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    overexcitedaj wrote: »
    Ive heard that they will be held in Ardfert in 2010

    I heard Ballacolla Co. Laois (held it several times already) in 2010. I know there are some good farms in Kerry but hard to see where they would get one single site with a mix of good dry grass and stubble ground.

    I'm sure it would be nice though to change it from it's usual Sth Leinster venues but I would not bank on it. It is a strongly commercial event first and foremost.


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    Sam Kade
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    overexcitedaj wrote: »
    Ive heard that they will be held in Ardfert in 2010
    It will be up the country again next year. I was in Ardfert in 1984 when the ploughing championships were held there, back then there were no trade stands.


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    Tomthepost
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    Sam Kade wrote: »
    It will be up the country again next year. I was in Ardfert in 1984 when the ploughing championships were held there, back then there were no trade stands.

    you sure it was not ballyheigue??


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    Sam Kade
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    Tomthepost wrote: »
    you sure it was not ballyheigue??
    It was Ardfert because I remember it like it was yesterday. A group of us that were doing the certificate in farming course went back there in a bus. We ended up spending most of the day in the bar tent that the Banna beach hotel had there.


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