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  1. Hurling Matches

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    Newmarket-on- Fergus Dalcassian Team and Quin werw most famous Clare Teams.Newmarket had become famous all over the County but Quin usually gave them a hard game .Many local men figured on the Quin Team ;the following are some of the local players three of some of whom are still living.
    Patrick Scanlan ,Rathluby, Quin,Co.Clare.
    Thomas O Brien ,Clomly,Quin.
    Michael Quinlivan .
    Pat Hickey ,Knappogue ,Quin.
    Augustine Quinlivan Rossroe, Sixmilebridge .
    Jim McInerney ,Drumullen .
    The Corbett brothers Clomly.
    The Quin team was selected mainly from the district of Crevagh ,Quin and the Black tea-pots "Rathluby,Quin,Crevagh and the Black tea-pots met frequently and played in a field now owned by Wm.Shuley ,Kilmurry Sixmilebridge ;A half barrel of porter was the prize and this was drank by visitors and losers alike when the match was over.
    From the above teams many players

  2. (gan teideal)

    “The last friar of Quin Abbey was Friar Hogan.”

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    The key of Quin Abbey was found by Michael Merry when digging a grave.
    The hanger used in the kitchen of Quin Abbey was found when Board of Works was doing drainage work near the Abbey.it was in Quin Church for some time.
    Mas was said on Sundays in QUin Abbey while the new Church in Quin was building.
    The trough for boiling the stirabout during the Famine years can still be seen in Quin.
    The Irish Soldiers of Jame's Army coming to Limerick from Galway camped for the night in Quin Abbey.A traitor with papers in his pocket showing he was betraying secrets to the English was found in the Cloisters.The Soldiers were about to shoot him there and then when O Neill said no desecrate the holy ground with

  3. (gan teideal)

    “John Sammon, Quin, Co. Clare, says there is a large stone which was taken from Quin Abbey.”

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    30. 4'38.John Sammon, Quin, Co. Clare, says there is a large stone which was taken from Quin Abbey incorporated with the stonework over the fireplace in the kitchen in Ballykilty House ,Quin .This stone bears the date 1614 and the names John Macnamara and o Nora Clanchy .

  4. Place Names

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    Informant: James Conroy, Ardsolas, Quin.

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    “Patt Moylan of Madara Quin Co Clare was going to Limerick with a creel of pigs to sell”

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    Patt Moylan of Madara Quin Co Clare was going to Limerick with a creel of pigs to sell.It is seventeen miles from Quin to Limerick .Patt started at twelve oclock at night in order to be in time ,as he had to walk the horse the whole way to Limerick.Going through Quin ,all had retired to rest but he met a man dressed in his army officer's uniform at Quin Cross.Patt was surprised because there were no soldiers nearer than Limerick but Patt remembered the story that an officer shot himself in a house at the Cross.,the time the soldiers were in Quin very many years previously .Patt continued his journey and passing the field adjacent to the abbey he saw a host of people .Amongst them he recognised many people long since dead.Going through Rathlully he encountered another ghost.This time he saw a white woman going with the wind and disappearing in the direction

  6. Fairs

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    Fairs were always held in Quin on the 7th of July and on the 1st of November. There is a field in Quin known as the Fair Green of Quin. There are more fairs held in Quin nowadays than were long ago. Six or seven years ago two extra ones were made, one in January and one in February.
    When a person sells a beast it is a custom with the seller to give 2s or 2/6 to the buyer as a luck-penny. A person has to pay so much to bring a beast into the fair green for instance a person has to pay a shilling for every horse he brings into the fair-green of Spancillhill where there were noted horsefairs were long ago and now also.

  7. Witches

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    There was a witch named Biddy Earley living between Quin and Tulla. She could work charms by talking to a devil through a little black bottle.
    One day a man in Quin went to Biddy for a cure for a girl who was sick. He got the cure and before setting out for home Biddy said "Be careful when you come to Quin cross-roads." Heedless to her warning he got off his horse and was going in to a public when the bottle broke in his hands, and the sick girl was dead when he got home.
    There were people in Quin who had a blind-window in the house. As there were young children in the house they had a little black saucepan with which to feed them. It was a custom with them to leave the saucepan on the window, it being the handiest place for them

  8. A Selection of Fairy Tales - The Dancer

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    there. When Micky and his comrades came to the place where the dance was one of the men said "Micky Quin will dance." Then they made dance. When one dance would be over and Micky would want to go they would stop him and one man would say "who will dance now" and another one would say "Who will but Micky Quin" They were at this for a long time making Micky Quin dance until he was not able to dance any longer. Then they vanished and the men found themselves in the middle of the fort. The two men had to carry Micky home. He got delicate and did not live long after that. This happened about

  9. Quin Abbey

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    In the year 1402 Quin Abbey was built by a man named McNamara. The monks lived there and begged from door to door for their daily food. The people of the surrounding districts that had sheep used to supply the monks with wool. One day a monk went into a bakery in the village of Quin and begged for a loaf of bread. The baker refused the loaf of bread to the monk. The monk cursed the baker and said that his dough may never rise.

  10. (gan teideal)

    “There is a very old graveyard in Quin.”

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    There is a very old graveyard in Quin. The graveyard is in side Quin Abbey. The Abbey was built about 300 years ago. The Friars lived in it for along time. It is very interesting to go through it to see the different graves. Some are buried inside the walls and others outside. There are stone shelves and coffins laid on them. The shelves are closed in with iron doors and you could see the coffins through the holes. One of these vaults is owned by Lord Dunboyne.
    There is a great number of people buried there. Some people are buried under flags with their names printed on the flag and others are buried down in the ground with head stones over them. A great lot of strangers come to see Quin Abbey as it is a very old and historic spot.
    Mr Salmon in Quin has the key of it. He shows strangers through it. There is a winding stairs leading to the top and from the top of it you could

  11. The Patron Saint of the Locality

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    Síoda Cam Mac Namara. In the year 1433 he got leave to place Friars in Quin. The last friar that died there was Fr. Hogan a native of Drim Quin

  12. The Patron Saint of the Locality

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    St Fenian is the Patron Saint of Quin. He built a church in the village of Quin, which is now a protestant church. There is a well in a tree at the back of the church dedicated to to his honour. The well was at opposite side of the river Rhine, but the soldiers of Cromwell disturbed it and it re-appeared in the opposite side of the river.

  13. Fairs

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    Fairs.
    The fairs in this district were always held in Quin.The place where the fairs used held was Hassetts fair -green.Long ago two fairs used to be held in Quin but now there are four.
    The buyers used go about from house to house buying cattle the night before the fair.They used take lodgings in Mr Hassett's ,Mr Power's ,and Hennessy's houses.The biggest fair that used be held in Quin was on the 1st of November and it is also the leading fair at present.
    A fair is held in Spancillhill on 24th of June .This is a horse fair and crowds of tinkers pass through Quin going to there every year.One year they ran short of drink ,as the crowd was so large and they started selling spring water and ever since the fair of Spancillhill is a rainy day.

  14. Fairs

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    "Fairs"
    There are five annual fairs held in Quin.They are held in January ,February and March and on the 7th of July and one on the first of November.There is also a fair held in Spancill -hill on the 24th of June.
    The fair of Quin held on the 1st of November is the principal one.it is held on the street .The tolls are collected by Denis Hassett.
    In days gone by fairs of Quin used to be very big .When Rory O 'Moore ad the Leinster chiefs rose in rebellion in 1641 it was first heard of at the fair of Quin.

  15. Old Recollections

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    22-V1 -'38 across Jasper's Bridge to Doora Catholic Church, then through Ballyortla to Knockanean School then by Garis Mills and Corravorin to the town of Ennis.
    It is said he was accompanied by by the Quin Band from Ardsollus to Ennis and that the big drummer Tom Walshe.The Deerpark ,Quin beat the drum so hard that he broke the panes of glass in the windows of the town of Ennis.Daniel O Connell also addressed a meeting on Cullane Hill near Dangan School .Tom Walshe was the only drummer at the meeting to beat his drum up the steep side of the hill.I have one of the instruments a clarionet of his Band. The old people told me it was played by my uncle, James Clune.
    Father Daniel Corbett ,parish priest of Quin marched at the head of the voters in his parish from Quin to Ennis to vote for O Connell.

  16. Relic of the Famine Days in Quin

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    The iron pots in which the free soup and meal were prepared for the relief of the poor in Quin are still in existence. One is in possession of Mr Dan Clune and is used as a water trough. It is on a farm 200 yards outside the village on the Quin-Tulla road. The ohter is in the possession of Mr Frank Clune. He has it as a water trough in his Quinville farm.

  17. (gan teideal)

    “The Stage Coach used travel from Galway via Moyriesk and Quin to Limerick”

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    The Stage Coach used travel from Galway via Moyriesk and Quin to Limerick the Stages or taverns as they were called were situated at long distances from each other .One of these taverns or "Stages " was at Spancilhill, another at Donnellans Cross another at Quin still called The Abbey Tavern.They passed through Quin at about 6 o'clock i the morning .Poor people, especially those who had no other mode of of travelling were very glad to make use of the Stage Coach.A man named Con Hourigan wished to go to Limerick,so he determined to travel by Stage Coach .So he went to bed early so as to be up in time to catch .Now at that time the poor people had no clocks ,so Con awoke sometime after twelve o'clock and got ready thinking it was about five o'clock in the morning .It was winter time,so it was still very dark .He got ready and put on his frieze coat as the morning was very cold .He went to the cross to meet the Stage Coach .he was not long waiting when it arrived quite ion carelessly. He got in and no sooner was he inside

  18. The Fair of Quin

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    The Fair of Quin.
    Long ago The November Fair of Quin was one of the most famous Fairs In Ireland.While many came to buy and sell, greater numbers came to enjoy the fun ,and a good many came to take part in the faction fights that took place annually on November Day.At The November Fair of Quin then all past insults were remembered and often atoned for by sore heads ,and not too rarely by the death of the supposed aggressor.They fought with long seasoned ash plants,for it was known that many a faction fighter had his ash plant for months "seasoning"in the chimney corner.Some fought with blackthorns with a large round knob ,and which were "toughened " by age and often bore the blood of some unfortunate victim,who happened to insult somebody during the year or did some wrong to his neighbour or who may have been the the victim of "spite"of long standing ,but the agressor as

  19. Drowning

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    Drowning.
    Quin Abbey was founded by L Macon Mac Namara who lived ion Dangan Castle in the year 1402.One day they found him missing .Search was made for him and he was found in a pond in the lawn ,and taken out for dead.His parents made a vow that if God would restore him to them they would build a Church in Quin in thanksgiving .The boy returned to life ,so he built the Church on the banks of the Rhine.
    All the monasteries of Ireland were done away with during the reign of Elizabeth,and the English took possession of Quin Abbey and converted it into a barracks .The building was soon burned by Donogh O Brien .The Mac Namaras took