(gan teideal)

“Before the old road was closed in, on The Old Mill side of the road, this happened.”

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Alphonsus G. O' Kelly, John Byrd

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“There was an old man named Johnny Boyle who lived in an old house at Crush-a-Roddy.”

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Alphonsus G. O' Kelly, John Byrd

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(gan teideal)

“An old man names Pat Byrd was coming home one night on the Church Road.”

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Alphonsus G. O' Kelly, John Byrd

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(gan teideal)

“When a cat scrapes you, just pull as much "down" as would come with you at once and out it on the scrape.”

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Alphonsus G. O' Kelly, John Byrd

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(gan teideal)

“Peter McDonald and Joe Hoey have the cure of the "dirty mouth".”

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Alphonsus G. O' Kelly, John Byrd

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(gan teideal)

“Johnny Traynor, Grandfather of the present Traynors) who lived at Walterstown Castle, was coming home one night from Navan when he heard steps hurrying after him.”

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Alphonsus G. O' Kelly, John Byrd

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(gan teideal)

“Near the house where Dicky Kierans is living, in the Lismullon Road, there is a hill called Saddle Hill.”

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Alphonsus G. O' Kelly, John Byrd

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(gan teideal)

“Near Tully's Lane there is an old house where this happened.”

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Alphonsus G. O' Kelly, John Byrd

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(gan teideal)

“Paid Wheeler, a a man who lived about Walterstown was in Somerville one day.”

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Alphonsus G. O' Kelly, John Byrd

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(gan teideal)

“In Boylamh of Hilltown there was a prize cow that the Boylamh thought the world of.”

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Alphonsus G. O' Kelly, John Byrd

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(gan teideal)

“Two people who marry and have the same name can cure the chin-cough.”

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Alphonsus G. O' Kelly, John Byrd

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(gan teideal)

“When the jackdaws fly up against the wind and fall back, this is the sign of storm.”

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Alphonsus G. O' Kelly, J. O' Kelly

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(gan teideal)

“To cure the chin-cough, a boy must go or write to his god-mother (a girl must write or go to her god-father) and get a red string or tape.”

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Alphonsus G. O' Kelly, Margaret Powderly

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(gan teideal)

“Peter Cullen, or Cullen the Slater was a slater by trade and he lived about Walterstown somewhere.”

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Alphonsus G. O' Kelly, John Byrd

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(gan teideal)

“Johnny Mulligan, a carpenter who lived in the Drogheda Road, Walterstown, used to be ceilidhing up about Runahan (Kentstown Parish).”

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Alphonsus G. O' Kelly, John Byrd

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(gan teideal)

“Willie Handlon lived in the Glen.”

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Alphonsus G. O' Kelly, John Byrd

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(gan teideal)

“Merryman lived at the old castle of Walterstown.”

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Alphonsus G. O' Kelly, John Byrd

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Moate Field

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Alphonsus G. O' Kelly, John Byrd

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Paid Connely

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Alphonsus G. O' Kelly, John Byrd

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Merryman

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Alphonsus G. O' Kelly, John Byrd

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