Commemorating Car & Motorcycle Racing at the Curragh
August 2, 2012 by Oliver McCrossan
Mike Heather (XK120) leading eventual winner Dickie Odlum (Frazer Nash) at the last ever car race on the Curragh Short Circuit in September 1954. Photo: courtesy Bradley Collection
As part of National Heritage Week for 2012 the Curragh Local History Group are planning to hold a reunion at Lumville House Hotel , Curragh, on Saturday August 25th to commemorate the car and motorcycle races held there between the years 1947 and 1967. The track on which these races took place was known as the Curragh “Short Circuit”. It was... [Read more...]
