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  1. A Story about a Giant

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    This story is about a big rock that is over on the Ballinasloe side of Ahascragh It is several tons in weight and it is said that there was a giant in Ballinasloe and his name Killupan and the peoples he threw this Rock over to this field from Ballinasloe and some people say that he threw it from Mt Mary. It is about 15 miles from here and it is about 21 miles from Ahascragh and Ballinasloe is about five miles from Ahascragh and after that the field and the village is Killupan

  2. Local Place Names

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    The name of Ballinasloe in Irish is "Béal Ára na Sluaig" means "the mouth of the ford of many people". Ballinasloe was the only place on the river Suck in which the could build a ford. Ballinasloe is noted for its fairs. It is noted for the annual Fair.

  3. (gan teideal)

    “One evening there was a woman and a girl coming home from Ballinasloe”

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    One evening there was a woman & a girl coming home from Ballinasloe & when they drew near

  4. Local Happenings

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    Local Happenings
    After the battle San Ruth withdrew his army from Athlone onward to Ballinasloe. The English commander having placed a number of men in Athlone followed the Irish army toward Ballinasloe. Meanwhile at Ballinasloe the Irish army arrived and San Ruth sent out scouts to try and find a more suitable place to give battle and the scouts returned

  5. The Battle of Aughrim

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    The battle of Aughrim
    After the defeat of the Irish by the English at Athlone the Irish army under the French general St Ruth retreated to Ballinasloe. At first they were going to have the battle in Ballinasloe but the scouts found a spot about four files outside Ballinasloe called Aughrim to be a more suitable spot for the battle. There are only two passes leading to the hill and there is also a large marsh at the bottom of the hill.

  6. A Famous Blind Piper

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    There was a blind piper living in Ballinasloe and his name was Denny Delaney. He was a famous blind piper and he lived in an old lane in a very small hut. He was married twice and he head only one Son and he had no daughter. The way he made his living was that he used to play tunes in Ballinasloe for pennies and he made a lot of money this way. He had a little dog that used to bring him round the town of Ballinasloe safely. Denny Delaney had a piece of string around the dog's neck and he had it tied on to his own coat and the dog brought him everywhere he wanted to go. He was engaged at all the weddings, parties

  7. A Famous Blind Piper

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    and dances in the country houses around Ballinasloe. He was at all the Feiseanna in the small towns round Ballinasloe. Any Feis or wedding was not considered any good if Denny Delaney was not present. He did not play any musical instrument only the bag-pipes. He was an expert piper and he was brought over to England every year to play at an Irish concert which was held in London on Saint Patricks day the 17th March and his son used to accompany him in England. One year he won a gold cup in England and he was the best piper in England, Ireland and Scotland. I read in a book that Denny Delaney made pieces of his own and then he played them and also no matter how many times he went to Ballinasloe in the day he

  8. A Good Name Is Worth More than Money

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    Some forty years ago there lived to the north of Roscommon town a very wealthy man, who went to all the neighbouring fairs, and bought a great deal of stock, which he afterwards sold to buyers from other countries. This day he set of very early on horseback to Ballinasloe some 28 miles distant. Pat the old farm hand had gone out to see the cattle and feed them. He returned about 9.30 to find the family very upset. On inquiring the cause of the confusion he was told that the master had gone to the fair and forgotten his money. Immediately Pat volunteered to go to Ballinasloe with the money. Well as Pat says. "I sat down ate a good breakfast of stirabout and started at 10 o'c. He started off and was in Ballinasloe by 2.30. Instead of being received kindly by his master, he was told that he should have minded his own affairs and not his master's.

  9. The Famine Times

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    4. The people were sent to the fever hospital in Ballinasloe. There were men employed there with carts, carrying corpses, some without coffins to a place called "Bully's Acre" on the McConnell side of Ballinasloe. Big trenches were opened there and when 18 coffins were in the trench it was closed. Many were brought for burial before they were dead and people robbing the place are said to have heard some of the ladies groaning.

  10. Famine Times

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    died in this district because there were people called Quakers living in Colemanstown, Ballinasloe, County Galway and they used to feed the people on Indian meal porridge and some of the pots they used are to be seen to this day. One of these pots is in Martin Naughton's field. This story was told by Patrick Finnerty aged 56 years of Cloonkeen Kerrill, Calsmanstown, Ballinasloe, County Galway.

  11. Giants

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    About one thousand years ago there was a giant living in this district. One day he was standing on Cloonkeen hill Colemanstown, Ballinasloe, County Galway and another giant said to him. "you are not able to fire a stone as far as I can". The giant took up a stone and he fired it to a field called "Móinín a' cró in Mount Hazel, Castleblakeney, Ballinasloe, County Galway. The other giant did not send the stone as far. The stone is there yet.

  12. Collier the Racer

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    About one hundred years ago there lived in Dunboyne a famous runner named Collier. This day his master told him he was to go to the fair of Ballinasloe. He was told to start nine days before the fair. His master started eight days before in his chariot, and Collier started the evening before the fair. Collier ran across the fields and he reached Ballinasloe before his master.

  13. Local Heroes

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    There is a man named Patrick Coneely living in Sleahan, Cappatagle, Ballinasloe who in his young days won the Connacht Championship for running.
    There was another man by the name of Dinny Delaney who lived in (Cappatagle) Ballinasloe. He was the best bag-pipe player in Ireland.
    Gilbert Jennings, Cappatagle, Ballinasloe was one of the best hurlers in Ireland.

  14. Local Happenings

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    Local Happenings
    After the battle of Athlone the Irish army led by San Ruth a French general marched on to Ballinasloe and they were going to fight it out with the English army led by Ginkle a well known general at that time, but after a short time he changed his mind and he sent out scouts in search of a more suitable place to fight. After a short time the scouts came back and told him that there was a very suitable place about 4 miles west of Ballinasloe and that it was all a bog on the Ballinasloe sid and hills on the other side. San Ruth agreed and got prepared and he marched on to it and got ready for the English. The English army were well equipped and trained compared with the Irish and they had about 10,000 more soldiers than the Irish

  15. A Local Hero

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    A Local Hero
    About fifteen years ago Patrick Keighrey of Creagh Ballinasloe won first prize everywhere there were Athletic Sports.
    He ran races in Ballinasloe, Mountbellew, Galway and Dublin and several other places. In those places he came first in the mile, half-mile and hundred yards. He won valuable silver prizes. He also won long jumping competitions. He best O'Connor the world's long jumper at Ballinasloe Sports at a distance of twenty-two feet. He won the long jump in Dublin and many other places. He has his house furnished with valuable prizes value for a hundred pounds or more,
    Agnes Costello, told to me by my father.
    Killure, Ahascragh, Ballinasloe, Co Galway

  16. Local Heroes

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    Cappatagle.Mr. Patrick Cambell broke it on his chest with a sledge.
    Mary Gorman who lived in Creggs walked from Cappatagle to Ballinasloe with seven hundred eggs on her head. It was a distance of about sixteen miles. She was a very strong robust woman. She was called by the people Maire Mor.
    Mr. Thomas Hough was a great jumper he jumped six feet in Ballinasloe.
    Collector Bridie Jennings, Cappatagle, Ballinasloe.
    Got from Mrs. Egan Cappatagle, Ballinasloe.

  17. Our Local Fairs

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    In sheep and cattle the luck-penny is also given according to the price. In the case of pigs the buyer stops a shilling for each pig no matter what the price is. In cattle, sheep and horses the buyer has to pay custom and the seller has to pay the custom in pigs. That is the rule in Ballinasloe.
    In Ballinasloe bonhams are sold every Saturday. The principal pig fair is in January.

  18. Local Fairs

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    Ballinasloe fair in October lasts a week and there are fairs every month besides. The custom that is paid is a penny for

  19. Buying and Selling

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    Shops were not plenty in olden times. People had to travel one or two to do their shopping. There was no buying or selling carried on after Mass. Long ago people used to exchange goods for goods. It is said that in olden times a market used to be held in Oatfield, Cappatagle, Ballinasloe and there was a small town there long ago. The town and all are now wiped out but there are still traces of the houses. Mr Ward from Ballinasloe buys feathers and rags and he used to buy them long ago.