Very little is known about Comyn the poet as most of his work and manuscript were destroyed by his wife and as a result there is very little known locally of what he wrote afterwards About one hundred years ago there was a strong many living in Ballinoe who could turn with a spade a new field and could beat double any good man in the district. This was called turning bawn.
It is also known of a man who lived in Kilfarboy while in the act of holding an old cow to have rings put on her nose pulled one of her ears off when she attempted to go. There was a great athlete named Tommy Malone who was a native of Miltown Malbay and proved to be a champion runner, jumper, walker and an all round man at athletics.
In the days when there were no trains or motor cars it was common for people to walk from here to Kilrush, Ennis and often times to Limerick.
Swimming was at all times

The parish of Kilfarboy was known as Kilfobrat or the undercover Church. It got its name because it is situated between two hills.
Michael Comyns son of the poet lived in Milford long ago. He was a magistrate and held a court on a hill in our meadow. On account of all the lies that were told at the court the hill became known as Cnoc na mBréag (the hill of the lies).The magistrate was a great drunkard and did not mind what lies were told to him.
A party of monks lived in Clonbony long ago and the remains of the house they lived in is still to be seen.
Once upon a time a king named Bascin lived in Ballyvaskin and he called the place Baile Bháiscín or the town of Bascin after himself. He also hid full

the ruins of an old church to be seen.
Long ago the Protestants who were living in parish of Kilfarboy took the old church from the Catholics to have their service in it, but after a while the catholics boys of the parish made up a plan to go over and frighten them and so they did.
When the protestants heard this great noise they thought it was the devil that had come to frighten them.
They were so frightened that they left it so from that day to this the catholics have possession of the church.
But that church was built newly in Miltown Malbay and soon after

He was a descendant of Brian Borou.
The road from Miltown to Kilfarboy is called Bóthar na Spíana, (the road of the bridles) because Ireton and John Cooper passed that road after demolishing the Catholic Church and burning the town of Kilmurry in which there were 150 wine merchants alone. They also ruined all the castles from Kilrush to Dough.
The road from Fintra to Ballyvaskin is called Bóthar an Lorga (?) (the road of the company) because in 1898 the people who were hunted lived in cabins along that road.
Rineen is so called because it is a narrow strip of land by the sea.
Drumin is so

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15. In the time of the great famine a certain man,whose name is not remembered lived in the locality,and he was wretched poor, his wife and children were on the point of death from hunger.One night as he went out to look for some food ,he met a Priest who questioned him and to whom he told his condition .
The Priest told him to return home and he would find a cow in his cabin and as long as he kept her he would never "see a poor day".The man returned without delay and to his surprise and delight he found the cow tied in the cabin.
He kept her for many years and he became very prosperous .As she grew old and as he had kept many of her calves ,he resolved to sell the cow,but as he had taken her out of the cabin on the morning of the fair she suddenly disappeared from his sight and he never saw her again.16.There came a year when hay was very scarce in Kilfarboy .A farmer in the district had,however a large quaintiy and he was in constant fear that it might be stolen by those who were in urgent need. One Sunday

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Local Ghost Tales.
1 A man named Burke who lived in this locality ,was one night going home from "Cuaird"when he encountered a strange figure of a man at a lonely spot on the road.As Burke approached the stranger .the latter disappeared suddenly .Burke got very much frightened and fell sick on his reaching home.He died within a month.2.A man named Mac Namara ,who used to go used to go about selling seagrass was returning one night from Moy to his home in Miltown.He noticed a figure crossing the road,and carrying some heavy object ,a little in front of him.When he came to the spot ,he observed an open coffin on the side of the road and what he believed was the corpse of a man ,inside.On the following night one of Macks children died.3.A farmer named Harrison of Kilfarboy built a cabin or out house at the western end of his house some years ago.When roof was put on he found it removed in the morning and on finishing it a second time he found the same dreadful ?.
He afterwards put a car and and cart into the roofless building but the vehicles were always removed outside in the morning.The walls of the building still stand.

was "they are not hungry enough yet". In a few days time a thunderstorm unparalleled since broke over the district and destroyed this particular grain crop.As against this act of degeneracy we have many examples of high souled charitable men and women. One Michael Sexton, Kilfarboy Miltown Malbay had a beautiful garden of cabbage in close proximity to his dwelling house. This cabbage together with corn he doled out with a free hand to the needy. On a day when the cabbage crop had vanished as alms another needy one applied for some help from the cabbage garden. This person was told by Mrs Sexton in presence of her husband that the entire cabbage had been used.
"Muise a grádh" said the old man "go out and search for any leaves which may have escaped your notice." She did so and found some leaves which she carried to the petitioner who in turn offered her prayer to God from the deep depths of her heart.Next morning the miracle of a rich plot of cabbage met their eyes where the previous eve the woman was hardly able to glean a few loose leaves.Numerous stories of this nature are cited by the old inhabitants of this district.
(Received from Thomas King, Toureen, Miltown Malbay)

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Beireadh Gach Aon a Lá Leis A man named O Gorman lived in Kilfarboy ,near where St.Joseph's Church now stands in the famine years.
At the time the country was full of robbers.One day O'Gorman was cutting wheat and all the wheat a man would cut should be put into the barns in the night or if not it would be stolen.O'Gorman did not remove his wheat this night but he left St.Joseph in charge.
The robber came and filled his sack with wheat.Then he heard a voice saying "Seacain".The robber said "Cad a seacnócaidh mé "The voice said "clann do cloinne".The robber said "Beireadh gach aon a lá leis.
He lifted the bag of wheat on his back and immediately he got stuck to the ground ,and he was there in the morning when OGorman came to the wheat.

LONGBRISEADH: Brisead an long i gCaoilte in Iarthar Co an Cláir ar na carraigeaca inaice na fairrgeBhí storm ann agus do séideadh an long ar na carraigeaca. Cuaid cuid de muinntir Caoilte amac i mbadh beag agus thugadar isteac iad go slán folláin.
Ní badhadh einne. Bhí an long ar na carraigeaca ar feadh blian no mar sin agus bhíodh na daoine ag teact cun é dfeicsint. Ta cuid den long fe'n uisce in aice le Caoilte fos.
Nuair a cuir Rígh na Spáinne an Armada go Sasana cun e do chuir fé smacht do bhuail galaí troma na longa agus deineadh iad do scaramhaint óna céile. Do bhriseadh cuid diobh ar na carraigeaca in iarthar na h-Éireann go mor-mhór in Iarthar an Cláir. Do briseadh cuid diobh inaice le Caoilte agus bhadhadh na Spáinig a bhi ionta. Rugadh cuid de na corp on bhFairrge agus cuiread i reilig inaice na h-aíthe iad.Tugtar Cill Fear Buidhe (Kilfarboy) ar an áit o shoin.

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File Eile.
One time there lived a great Irish scholar named Garret Fitzgerald in a townland called Wilford between Miltown Malbay and Kilfarboy.This man used go to Ennis selling plants some Sundays.One Sunday when going there he want by Connolly.
When he was passing the Church he saw a crowd of men standing at the gate.He began talking to a few of them with which he was acquainted. After a short time a poor man came enquiring of them if they saw any as along the road.They told him they didn't and them one of them said :-
"They best thing for you to do is to put a ticket on the altar and the priest will announce it",
"All right said the poor man "but who will write it for me",
I'll write it for you ",said Garret,
Then he got a pencil and paper and he was not wrote it.it was then given to the priest and when sermon time came he was not able to read it.
After Mass the poor man went to the priest and asked him why didn't he announce about his ass being lost.The priest said he wasn't able to to read it and he told him to bring in the man who wrote it.
He brought in Garret and the

Around this place there is a story about a very simple man who lived in Kilfarboy and did all sorts of queer things.
One day he was at mass and a sunbeam crossed the church near where he was sitting.
He thought it was a clothes hanger.
He hung his coat on the sunbeam and it held it up.
When mass was over he took his coat and went home.
Next Sunday when he went to Mass the beam was there again and he hung up his coat but the beam bent a little.
When mass was over he took his coat and went home.
The third Sunday he came and the beam was there.
He hung his coat on the beam but it broke and

Seo daoine a bhíodh ag fóglaireacht fadó:-Father Whyte, Miltown Malbay
Father Stuart, Milltown Malbay
Peter Meade, Knocklascrane, Milltown Malbay
Martin Mahony, Ballyvaskin, Kilfarboy agus
Pádraig Mach Mathghamhna, Gleann Doimhin, Sráíd na Cathrach.
Seo daoine a bhíodh ag deunamh Poitín:-
Muinntir Mach Mathghamhna, ó Gleann Doimhin Sráid na Chathrach agus
Muinntir Loinsigh, Caherogan, Sráid na Cathrach.
Seo an slighe a dheinidís Coinnle (?)They used to have a mould the shape of a candle, made of lead or tin. A cotton thread for a wick. When the tallow was melted, they used to put the thread in the centre of the mould. When turned out it was fit for use.
They use also dye wool for frieze with stuff found in bogs. They used to colour the wool by boiling it until it was the colour required for grey frieze.
Seo an slighe a dheinidís dionadóíreacht:-Geobhidís sugán dubalta agus bíodh fear amhain istig agus an fear eile amuigh agus bíodh snáithidhe deunta d'íárann agus súl air. Chuireadh an fear a bhíodh istigh amach tré dhíon an tighe é don duine a bheadh amuigh agus chuireadh an fear a bhíódh amuigh isteach é go dtí an fear a bhíodh istigh. Bhíodh fear darb' ainm John Fox ó Caherduff go maith chun dhionadóíreacht.

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Graveyards
In the graveyard of Kilfarboy we find the following inscription .
(1)Colonel Augustine Fitzgerld of Moy Castle -died 1776-
His dauughter died 1779.
2.Erected by Mr Augustine Fitzgerald for himself and his family.
a d 1842
3.Gerald Fitzgerald died Nov.20th 1775.
4.Erected for M Downes .died 1829.
5.Erected by M.Coimuns Moy 1879.In Ballard graveyard one inscription goes.In Memory of Bridget O Rourke died 1 712. Various Pupils.