Shannon Ferry Terminal at Killimer County Clare is where the ‘Colleen Bawn’, fifteen year old Ellen Hanley, murdered in 1819, is buried.
Interview with Pierce Cooper, Chairman of Killimer Colleen Bawn Memorial Committee, who says the original memorial to the Collen Bawn was chipped away by souvenir hunters.
West Clare artist Jim Connolly is working on a new commemorative sculpture using a Nodlaig Fennell from Carrigaholt as model.
Interview with Jim Connolly standing on the grave of the Colleen Bawn in Killimer who says that the Colleen Bawn story is fully authenticated in Killimer not in Killarney.
He talks about working in bronze and about his disregard for fashions in art.
The reporter is Michael Walsh.
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