 
The Society of Ploughmen was pleased to host over 60 of
the world's top ploughmen when the 47th World Ploughing Contest visited
Lincolnshire.
The World Ploughing Contest is an event which is held
in a different part of the world each year and it was last held in
England in 1984.
It was held in conjunction with the 50th British
National Ploughing Championships on a 200 hectare (500 acre) site
adjacent to the Lincolnshire Showground near Lincoln, September 1999.
The National Ploughing Championships took
place in Castletownroche in Autumn 1999 and the Trust was pleased to see
that Churchtown played its part by accommodating over 40 members of the
Ulster Farmers Union in Boss Murphy’s. The local Churchtown &
Liscarroll Ploughing Association, lead by chairman P J O’Driscoll held
a most successful one day ploughing championship at the High Meadow on
the Black Road on Pat and Karen Kennedy’s farm in November 1999.
 A
raffle organised around the event raised £500 for Mallow County
Hospital and the Churchtown Development Association also received a
generous donation. Noel Linehan, Ballygrace helped to secure this event
for our parish and the following also contributed to the success of the
event: Ina and Michael Bourke, John Sampson, William Gaffney, Pat
O’Brien and Fr Patrick Twohig PP.
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