Paddy Bobee, Ballybunnion was a very good runner. He used to run from Ballybunnion to Listowel and back again for two pence, about forty years ago. Ned Luneard, Coolard, Pete Ward, Killgarvan, William Walsh Coolard, and Paddy Sullavan, Mount Hayes were supposed to be the best runners in sports about forty five years ago.

Many years ago there lived in Doon Ballybunnion a very wealthy man. He had nine daughters and there did

There was a Land lord called Supple. He had an estate of his own. One day two Galvins were going to Ballybunnion on some business. Some other people were going too. At that time it was a big thing to have a trap and very few people had them. There was one in Listowel and it was out on hire every day. This day they got the trap.

case was going against him. He called on "Fear an Cúathán", and he appeared on the bench and they were hanged. He got married to the gentleman's daughter, and he came back to Ballybunnion and took his father and mother to Galway where they lived happily.

In Ballybunnion there was a cave up in the Pookeens? And every Sunday the people used to come to Mass there.one day the soldiers found the place and

down in the ground. They sent it to the museum. A man named John Hanrahan owns the land now. It is the boundary between Mr. Connor's land and Shanahan's land.
Teresa O'Carroll VI
Dairy Lodge,
Ballybunnion
Michael Griffin,
Dairy Lodge,
Ballybunnion

cows were of no use and no cream came of the milk and the people could not make butter. They were afflicted with sickness. When the priest came to the house of the Rices he heard of what she had done. The priest came to her and nobody knows what happened, but she did not live long after. Her family live in Ballyconry at present and Paddy Mahony still resides in Ballyegan. This happened about fifty years ago.
Teresa O'Carroll VI
Dairy Lodge,
Ballybunnion
Michael Griffin,
Dairy Lodge,
Ballybunnion

weather. When the smoke falls to the ground and spreads along with the slight current of air look out for rain before night. When we hear the Buttevant train i is a sign of fine weather. But when we hear the Banter train it is a sign of rain. Wen it is raining and the cock gets a fit of crowing it is going to clear. When the siobháinín Riabhach, wagtail, is around the yard look otu for wet weather. When we hear the road of the water in the ford of the Long-Hole in the river. Allow there will be wild wet weather. Then we can hear Poll-a-geloga somewhere near Ballybunnion sounding like thunder in the winter it is a sure sign of stormy weather.

On their way to Ballybunnion they met Supple on the road on horseback. He gave them the royal salute as they had a trap. He was delighted to see one of his tenants having a trap.
One of the people said they would be sorry for having a trap. The following day that Land Lord came to their house and raised their rent higher than what it was. When he came in, to one of the houses they were eating dinner. They had a white cloth on the table and they asked him to eat some and he only when over to the table and took four potatoes in his hand. The two houses were up together. They were the two parties

When he arrived at the place he did not see the devil at all.
Long ago when children were going to school on St Patrick's Day they wore crosses on their left shoulders. The cross was made of all kinds of ribbons. They wore it on every St Patrick's Day.
There was a amn long ago who lived in Ballybunnion. His name was Dan Caughlin. He caught the "Luragadan". He said that the "Luragadan" ran along the tops of the bushes.
One night as the man was coming home from the village drunk he followed the "Luragadan" along the tops of the trees. When he went home to his wife she asked who tore his trousers. He said that he was