There is a protestant school in Moyard. During the time of the famine the protestant people gave money to the catholics to turn over, so they did rather than starve with the hunger. They built another school in Cleggan and the people used to get a cup of soup from dinner. They built another house near Moyard school and the forty boys used to live in it. The first day they went to school the protestant gave them clothes.
One day a man named Tom Heaney went to school so that he might get the clothes. He went about a week to school and then stayed at home.
There lived and old woman in Moyard and she was dying with the huger so the protestant minster brought her down to the protestant school and gave her food in order to turn her a protestant. The priest heard this and he came to the minter about it. The minster told him that he would not get the woman. The priest told him to have the gates opened for him the next day. The gates opened when the priest came and he brought the dying woman up to Moyard and anointed her.

There was an old hedge school in Cleggan about hundred years ago; it was called the Jumper school. Many poor people went to it, to be educated. All the people that went got a cup of soup at noon daily. The first day they went, they got a flannel coat. One man whose name was Tommy Heaney went two day, as soon as he got a flannel coat he never went to it again.
There was a girl named Sally Tierney was a Jumper for part of her life. She was very ill one day. The minister that was in Moyard went to the Jumper school; and brought her over to the school house in Moyard. She was crying for the priest. Mrs Ace was passing the road, she heard her crying the priest. Mrs Nee ran to Letterfrack to tell the priest. The priest came at once, he went to the school house. The minister was in side the door, but the priest said he would break the door, the minister opened the door at once. The priest gave her the sacrament of Extreme Unction.
The priest got a man and ass and cart and they brought her up to Moyard and she died there.

There was once a man, who lived in Moyard Cottage. His name was Dearg-Daol.
He had three daughters, his eldest daughter got married to a minister, who's name was O'Connal, she had to be wheeled around in chair.
Dearg-Daol was a Jumper. He used to go around to the houses trying to turn the people Jumpers.
One day Dearg-Daol went up to Moyard, he went in to woman's house whose name was Maggie

There is an old Dun in Moyard. People say that fairies live in it. There is a cave in the south side of it, it faces the hills and the Moyard river a few feet away. There are many names written with splinters of stome scrawled all over the sides of it. The names are there because the fairies would take anyone that left the cave without writing their names in it. People say that a girl who lives near Dun was taken by the fairies. A man was hung on an ash tree on the south side of it, east of the cave.
The Republicans hid in Dun in 1922 when the Freestate soldiers were looking for them.Beartly King

There is a fairy dun in Moyard. It is a hill of rocks and on the top of the rocks there are little trees growing.
There is also a cave in it and every-body that goes in to it must write his name, or the fairies would take them. The people say that the fairies took a young girl to dun and they left a fairy in her place. She is in Moyard to this very day and she is only three feet and half high. She never goes to mass or (speek) speek to anyone. It is divided into halves by a stone wall. One half belongs to Micheal Macgreal and the other belongs to Tom Macdonald. There are hundreds of names written on the walls of the cave.
I heard this story from my Mother who lives in RockfieldFrancis King

There is a house in Moyard where the tennis club meets, it was once a school. There were forty boys taught in it. They were Protestants and jumpers. There was a school also in Rockfield where Mrs Barret lives. Such a school was called a bird's nest. There is an old school near the road between Cleggan and Ballinakill. Jumpers used to go to that school. That was where the jumpers got soup and porridge and clothes. There was a national school about three hundred yards away from this school.

There are three graveyards in this parish. One of them is situated in Moyard another one in Ballinakill and the other in Baunogues. The people always say if one person dies and is buryed in Ballinakell a third person is sure to be buried that sam (morning) month.There is an old church in the Gar Graveyards and there is an old window in it, in the shape of a shamrock. Long ago there was an old graveyards in Tooreen; about a year ago a man was building a house and he found two old head stones in ground with a.d. writtened on them.

There was once a woman who lived around Moyard and she had a lot of pisreogs. One night she was coming home later and she had cow which she was after buying. It got very dark on her and she had to pass a graveyard on her way. When she was coming near the graveyard she was expecting someone to meet her and she saw a man riding on horseback and she thought it was someone out of her house meeting her but when she went up to him she saw the white ribbon on his forehead as they used to put on the dead in the olden times.
She also noticed a young girl who had died that very day and the woman said that she had been taking her away. When she saw that it was a ghost, she caught hold

is a good swimmer.
The late Mr Tullock, Moyard often snuffed a lighted candle, placed on wifes head with a riffle shot.
A strong man, Patrick King, Omey Island was one morning bringing seven pigs in a cart to a fair in Letterfrack when the horse failed to pull, he unharnessed him and pulled the cart and pigs himself the rest of the journey.
John Mongan Attyguddane would mow four tons of hay in a day. Michael Pee, Cloon was a good turf cutter.

There was once a man who lived up near Dun Moyard. He had a horse in a field near Dun. He had the horse a long time in the field. The man had a bag tied on the horses tail. He thougth he would be fit to trick people, so he went down to the field one day. He saw that the grass was eaten up. One night he was coming home from card playing and he said that the fairies were eating all his grass. He had to pass Dun before he could get home. It was about twelve o'clock when he was passing Dun. He saw a big ligth in Dun, and a big door open. The next moment sixteen men came out. They caught him and brought near the cave. They hung him on a black thorn bush. When the people saw him, they used to run away. He was there until he rotted away. Ever since that time no leaves grow

There is an old dun in Moyard and there are thorn bushes growing on the side of it and some other bushes and briars on the top of it.
It is situated in Katie Cannons land and there is an old cave in it and outside of the cave many briars grow anybody that goes in to that cave should write their names on it or the fairies would take them and there are many names written on the side of it.
A girl went in to the cave and she did not write her name on the cave. One evening she was minding the cattle and the fairies stole her and they kept her for two hours.
I always hear her singing when I go near her house is there is no body in the house but herself.

On Saint Stephen's day boys go from house to house with the wrenn and the gather money for their selves, some times old people put womens skirts and shawls on them and colour their face's black, they get a melodian and play tunes outside peoples house's. One day John Conn and Joe Conneely put womens b clothes on them and they gathered some money.
On May day people dont give andything to other people. People make crosse's on St Brigid day and put them on the walls of the houses and they wear shamrocks on St. Patricks day.
On St. John's night people make bone fires.
I heard this story from my mother who lives in Moyard.Sarah J King

Moyard: a village, it means on a high plain, The name comes from the Irish for high plain.
Garraunbawn: The Irish for white horse. There is an old story that there were seven sisters drowned in a lake in the village, and that every seven years since then a white horse comes out of the lake.
Cnockmaráh: The hill of the fort.
Ballinakill: The village of the church.
Bundailish: The Irish for at the bottom of two fairy forts.
Kylemore: The Irish for a big wood.

There is a Dun near Stream'stown bay, which is situated on Paddy Connelly's field.
There was once a castle situated in the field. It was owened by Grainne Ui Maille.
O'Fhaherty had a another castle on the other side of the bay.
Grainne Ui Maille and her men were at tea one evening and OFhaherty came across the bay with his men.
He went in the windows and door and broke the castle of Grainne Ui Maille and her men and killed them. Some of the walls are standing there yet.
I heard this story from my father who lives in Moyard.Maureen Aston

Three giants lived in Rockfield hundreds of years ago. One giant got killed d at the top of bnock na rar as he was cycling on a penny half penny bicycle towards Letterfrack. He tried to stop the bicycle but he could not stop it.When a man was cutting turf at cnock na rar he got the bones of that giant in his bog and he left them there, the bog is 400 yards from the road. Another giant threw a big stone from Fetter hill to Diamond hill.There is a field owned by Peter Coyne where there is a stone and the shape of a giants foot is on that stone. It is in the field where the blessed well is and it is three hundred yds. beyond it.There is another (giant) stone in Gannons land that a giant threw from Letter hillI got this from my mother who lives in MoyardSarah King

I have five cow and nw six calves and fiftey sheep at home. We have a barn for the cow and calves we put "sheg messa" and fems under them in the barn.Thier names are: the "mouse cow" "homey cow" the "black cow" Juday and Nellie. I milk the mouse cow every morning and every evening. I milk her on the right side. When I drive them I say "Kutha" to drive them. When I have food for the cow I say "neck-suck".We have a sheEp at home whose name is Mam. She is very wise. She was bought from Mrs. Joyce, she was at Streamstown at eleven o'clock and she was at Ungwee at four o'clock. She went in to Mrs Joyce herself and left her lamb out side, she went out again and brought in the lamb.About 40 years ago there lived near the west coast of Connemara who had a ser certain art for making butter. She had two cows and also preserved a hand of a dead man, before she started the churn she used to around the churn with the hand say certain words while doing so, and then make her churnning.When she thought it was finished, she took it up and secured it. She had all the butter of the village and the neighbour's had none.I heard this story from my father who lives in MoyardMaureen Acton