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The Fair
Long ago there were fairs held in Inagh about eighty years ago.There were three fairs after each other in the same year and they used to be held in J. J.keating's field and at the crossroads of Inagh.When the Black and Tans were here there used to be great fairs in Inagh .In the year nineteen seventeen there was a famous fair in Inagh and most people of the parish sold cattle.They are not held now as the buyers used not come and the people used to get drunk because the public houses were very convenient.They used to be striking with big ash plants that they used to have

One night a man from Inagh dreamt that he would find money in a bridge near Limerick, so he set out next day for Limerick. He arrived there in a few days and when he came, to the bridge he met another man on the same errand. He told him that he was there for three days but nobody could tell him where such a place as Inagh was, because he dreamt that he would get a crock of gold there. After having heard where it was and in the exact spot, the Inagh man said nothing but started off for home again. It was near a tree in his own garden the gold was buried. After he had dug a good piece down he found a crock of gold. A little voice spoke to him and said: "Dig at the other side of this tree and you will find more gold", and he did and found another crock of gold. The place is since called Sceach a Mhic an Chróga.

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Hurling and Football.
There was a hurling match held in Mr.David Neylon's inch about twenty one years ago.The match was held between Inagh and Ennistymon and the Inagh team won the match.There were sixteen at each side and they had no referee.Some of the Inagh players were Thomas Moloney,James Keane,Michael Brennan John and Jim Carney, Michael Hynes and James Flanagan.
The ball they used was far bigger and heavier than the one they use nowadays.It was about four ounces in weight and they made it themselves from

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Grave Yards.
there are two grave yards in this parish one in Inagh and one in Kilnamona,Grave yards are generally shaped to the east and the head stones are faced towards the south except the priests which is faced towards the west. The reason the priests grave (yard) is faced towards the west is because when he is preaching to the people he is faced in the opposite direction..The Inagh grave yard is situated in the village of Inagh in Mr.Keating's land and it was made about one hundred and fifty years ago. Before it was

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Old -Roads
The principal roads of this parish are the New Line "which leads from Ennis to Ennistymon . The "Black Road " leads from Inagh to Ennis.
The "White Road "leads from Inagh to Miltown Malbay.
The "Maghera Road" leads from Inagh to Maghera and Kilnamona .The "New Line "being the principal road in the parish as well as being one of the most important in Clare was built (abo) the years eighteen fifty seven and eight.it was made that time from Fountain Cross to Ballyea Cross and the rest was made about one hundred years before that .The contractor of that road was Mr.Ryan .
Derycutteen,
Inagh. , a grandfather of the present Josepy Ryan.Mr.Adare was the County Surveyor at the time and it is said that he was a "stiff card"

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The Smith and the Forge
There are four smiths in this parish:- Mr,Michael Griffey,
Maurcie's Mills
Inagh.
Mr.Joseph Vaughan.
Crowe's Bridge.
Inagh.
Mr.James Kearney.
Letterkelly,
Inagh.
The forge is generally situated near a village or at cross roads convenient to a river or stream. James Reidy.s forge is situated in the village of Inagh along side the Inagh

The parish of Inagh is noted for lakes, the parish of Kilmaley for forts, and the parish of Kilnamona for springs.

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place named "Silsean" about half mile from Inagh. A man named Hegarty that owned this townland at one time and he divided it among the people. Mr. J.D. Wilson was the Land Lord of this townland and he lived in Rockstone in Corofin and the people used to have to walk it to Corofin with the rent to him. He was not so hard in them as they say he used to pay it himself for them.
There is one bog in the townland and its name is the big bog and it was Mr. J.D. Wilson that owned it and it is ever since called Wilsons Bog. He divided it among the people of the townland and each one got an equal share. The Inagh river pass through it at the lower side of it and it helps

* Inagh he left his set of pipes to Hugh Curtain near Miltown. He was about sixty-five years of age when he died. Besides being a piper he was also a poet and he wrote "Farewell to Miltown Malbay".Mary Hegarty
Maghera
Inagh.

Thady Curtin the hedge school master taught in Inagh and later on in the National school. He was able to compose rhymes in a very short time. He taught Greek and Latin and the school was thatched with sedge and the walls were made of mud and the scholars wrote with paper and quill pens and sat on wooden stools after a time the school fell. One occasion he met two other hedge teachers from Mt. Callan in a public house owned by Mr Devitt in the Milltown road a short distance from Inagh. They were drinking in a locked room and as Curtin wished to join them, he peeped through the key-hole. They saw that some body was there and called out come in Jimmy Peep. Curtin entered and they not knowing him said who ever composed the first rhyme should get a drink of poteen from the other two. The cost of each round of drinks was half-a-crown. Curtin stood up and sang out."Jimmy peep saw two sheep"

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situated in the parish of Inagh in the barony of Inchiquin and in the County Clare. There are twelve houses in it three slated ones and nine thatch ones with the old sugan chimneys. There are forty people living in this townland and the oldest person in it is: Mr. Michael Hegarty,
Ballybeg,
Inagh,
Co. Clare
and the next oldest is:
Mr. Thomas Moloney,
Ballybeg, Inagh,
Co. Clare.
and he is generally called the Mop. They both have Irish and they can speak Irish and they have a lot of Irish words. They are over seventy years and they are drawing the

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That was the very first year that this road was ever made .In the year nineteen sixteen it was steam-rolled by the Granger Brothers from Belfast.
Information by Mary Glynn.
Annagh ,Inagh John Curtin ,62
Ruska,
Inagh
The Maghera Road leads from Inagh to Maghera and Kilnamona.it is the oldest road in the district and it is all hills and hollows ;one of the hollows is called Gleann a' Bhóthair .After about two miles and a half of this road there is a crosscalled locally "The Cross of Maghera"but the most familiar name is "Árd a' Mhachaire " .It is said that the friars who lived at Ruska had a little hut near this cross a little time after leaving the monastery at Ennis .From this cross three roads besides beside the Maghera road branch off to other places .The Mill's Road goes from (the Cross) "Árd a' Mhachaire to "Maurice's Mills".This is a small village consisting of a Police Barricks, a Post Office(and)

Ned Judge who lived in Creggaun about three miles from Belderrig rose one summer's morning and brought the cows to the hill with him. He went to Castelbar and was home in time to bring the cows in with him for the evening milking.(The distance is about 30 miles as the crow flies and allowing for detours round hills and swamps it would be about 45 miles - that is 90 miles double journey.)I heard Tom Minnelly of Inagh (about five miles south east of Belderrig) saying that he left his home in Inagh one night and walked to the Croagh and received Holy Communion on top of the Reek. (The journey would be close on 50 miles not to mention the climbing of Cruac Pádraig at the end of it and fasting from the previous midnight.)At the time that the Copper Mines

In this and in adjoining parishes there are numbers of graveyards. Some of these seem to be of comparitively modern origin, some were opened quite recently, and some seem to be very ancient.
The names of most of the ancient graveyards have the Irish word 'cille' or 'cill' incorporated in them as Kill-inagh, Killtrustan, and Sean-cille. This shows that each one was connected with or grew around an old church in the district.
Killinagh graveyard is situated on the crest of a hill and seems to have grown around an old church called St. Winnifred's or in Irish Cille-inagh.
The ruined ivy-covered walls of this old church stand there still and point out to the local inhabitants where their ancestors knelt in prayer centuries ago. How long the church is deserted or has been in ruins there seems to be no record. The ivy-clad walls still stand there and seem to defy time. In their day they must have

About sixty years ago there lived in Inagh a married couple. They were poor because it was in the bad times. One day a neighbouring man came to help them at the hay. They had no breakfast to get. While he and her husband went out at the hay. She got a hook and went out and cut some

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The penal days.
In the penal times mass was celebrated in this district in an old thatched chapel.The children of the parish used to go to school in the old chapel and they used to clear it out for Sunday.The people of the parish used to thatch the chapel in their turn.
There is another chapel in Kilnamona graveyard in which mass was said i penal times .The ruins of that old church are to be seen .
In the penal times the soldiers were following three friars from Dysart and the friars had the full of an old shoe full of gold .They hid the gold their way from Dysart to Inagh.They were captured in Inagh and the three of them were buried in David Neylon's bog and there is a green spot in the middle of the bog where they are buried.

the famous piper is buried there and Martin Moloney is also buried there who was killed by the English soldiers in the year 1921.The headstone was erected by the I.R.A.People are buried in other grave yards outside the parish because some people will to have them buried there.The grave yard is well kept and the people have lovely ever green trees planted around the graves and the Inagh river is close by.

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he used to put them working and he used to order them to come again the following day and if they did not come he would raise the rent the next time.They were not willing to pay the rent as it was very high and the rent my father had to pay at that time was five pounds.They used have to bring him presents in their turn.They used to bring him geese, fowl, butter and eggs..Nellie Duggan Information by Mrs.P Duggana,Ballybeg, Inagh.Mrs. D. C. Petty was the Land Lady for the townland of Annagh and Ruska. her son got the land when she went back to England .He was a Co.Surveyor and he gave the contract of Crowe's Bridge to
Mr. Ryan,
Derrycutteen
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unless you were told about it.
The upper, or inscription side was not so heavy. It went much further down the hill and there it fell over a hollow ground so that it formed a hollow chamber and place of refuge for rabbits and other small animals, and thus it remained for some years till a hunting party came to course the mountain, when a hare, exhausted from the chase, took shelter under the flag, and they, the huntsmen, turned off the stone and cast it down with such force that it rolled to the foot of the mountain and lodged in the marsh, where it still remains, almost covered with clay.Meeting at Inagh
Having heard this story I resolved to go again and see the stone if possible. I arranged with this man to meet me at Inagh on a subsequent Sunday to lead us to the place. I organised a band of twenty one stout young men and on the appointed day, proceeded to the site of the demolished bed of Conan, accompanied by a good number of the inhabitants of the surrounding districts