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“Long ago there lived in Ballydavid a man named John Geary...”
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Long ago there lived in Ballydavid a man
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Bailiúchán béaloidis é seo a chnuasaigh páistí scoile in Éirinn le linn na 1930idí. Breis eolais
Torthaí
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A Fenian
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A Fenian
About 77 years ago, my grand-uncle, Richard Kearney joined the Fenians, at the age of 30. They were an oath bound secret Society, and the Catholic Clergy were opposed to them. Kilmoyler, Cappa, Ballycarron and Ballydavid formed a Fenian Company. A few of my uncle's companions were: Lawerence O'Dwyer of Toureen and Jeremiah Body of Cappa. One wet night, my grand uncle got into Ballycarron House by a sewerage pipe and carried out a gun. The Fenians were not allowed to buy guns, and therefore they did everything possible to get them. Another evening, Jeremiah Bodry got into Ballydavid R.I..C. Barracks by means of a ladder. Just as he was inside his heels hit against the window and it slapped down. he had only time to get away, when the Police came up, and he was at the
Old Ruins
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built by the Normans. It is not known was any attack was made on them or not. They say there is an under ground passage in Ballydavid castle that passage goes from the castle to Andy Loughnanes garden and crosses to road between Potters and Dillons.
Old Ruins
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The nearest old castle in the district is in Ballydavid. It is not known who it was built by. There is also another castle in Garbally. It is a very big castle. It is said it was
Chair-Making
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While Norton's boot-making industry was in progress Kickhams carried on the same industry on a smaller scale. They also had a saw-mill (worked by steam) where farming implements, handles, chairs, and other household furniture were made. About the year 1900 Nicholas Kickham who now resides in Ballydavid extended his business giving employment to about fifty men. Unfortunately the industry collapsed about 1905.
(gan teideal)
“The following lines were composed by Thomas B. Kickham.”
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The following lines were composed by Thomas B. Kickham. The lady referred to is Katie Freney whom J. B. Kickham unsuccessfully wooed. The locket containing the interwoven hair of Charles Kickham and Katie Freney is in the possession of John Kickham, Ballydavid, Mullinahone. The lines were written to John Kickham's mother.
Names of Places Round About Us
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Shudane. Shudane is so called, because a man named Sodan occupied all the land where the village of Shudane now stands.
Tample-Moyle got its name from two roofless churches that are there.
Tyasaxon. Tyasaxon is so called because an Englishman lived there and the people called his house Tige Sasanac.
Currantarmid got its name from a cairn where a Diarmuid is buried.
Tourkeel. Tourkeel is so called because a slender round tower was built there but there is no trace of that round tower to be seen at present.
Ballyboggan. Ballyboggan is so called because the land around Ballyboggan is very marshy and soft.
Graigabbey. Graigabbey got its name from a Greyabbey which was built there long ago.
Ballydavid. Ballydavid is so called because there was a David in every house in that village.
Giants
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There was once a giant who lived in Athenry and he wanted to throw a stone from Athenry to Monivea and it fell in a place called Ballydavid about a mile from Athenry and it now marks the first mile stone.
The was another giant who
Local Landlords
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Landlords were people who used to go for rent in olden days and if the people did not pay the rent they would have to leave the house. There was a landlord near our house by the name of James Power, Ballydavid House, Littleton. He was a Catholic once and entered a college to be a priest. A year before his ordination he left and married a protestant girl. The whole family became protestants after a while. Once he went around with a battering-ram and hunted all the people and knocked their houses when they were not able to pay rent.
Cures for Animals - Farcy in Horses
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Farcy in Horses
The symptoms of this disease are 1. A large swelling usually appearing on the underside of the animals body or in a leg and (2) if the finger be pressed on this swelling a small dent or hollow will remain for some time after the pressure has been removed. Thomas Casey, Ballydavid, Littleton[?] Thurlas, cures this disease by prayer and holy water.
Ghost Story - The Rider at Gurteen
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A gran(d)aunt of Stasia Vaughan’s living in Fethard was coming to see one of her friends in Ballydavid, Mullinahone, who was dying. It was in the month of May and late at Night. At gurteen, about midway between Mullinahone and blaneen; near Kickham’s tree she met a huntsman who suddenly disappeared over the ditch. She was telling her friends afterwards of the huntsman she had seen so late at night and at an unusual time of the year. Somebody however, remarked that she had seen the ghost rider, who had been a collector of tithes and was killed by the people.
An Incident in the Land War
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The Eviction of the Keating family - Ballydavid, Bansha.(This account has been held over for transcription into a second manuscript book)
Hidden Treasures
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supposed to be guarded by a very large black cat, who is seen very often around the hill. Long ago a man tried to get this treasure, but on hearing the cats loud purring, which he knew was guarding the treasure he returned in fear. Many attempts have been made since to get the threasure but were all failures, and many of those people were never heard of again.Collected by Matilda Dolan, Kilcooley N.S. Loughrea.
Told by John Dolan, Ballydavid, Loughrea.
Story
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In a certain country house outside Ballydavid a neighbour came into visit at night time. When he was leaving, the man of the hosue said "I will go up a bit of the way with you", and when they parted he turned as he thought to his house, but could not find it, and walked through fields and roads and lanes all night, and in the early hours of the morning found himself in Dalystown, about seven miles away from his home in a churchyard. On discovering where he was he returned at once to his home.
People often go astray even though they may be very near their home, and it is said that it is the fairies that lead those people astray.
(gan teideal)
“Under a tree in the yard of Ballydavid Wood House and un-baptised child was buried.”
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Under a tree in the yard of Ballydavid Wood House an un-baptised child was buried. A man named Mr. Grant felt a weight every night in bed and at last he was crushed to death. In the same room a man was shot and the blood may be seen on the walls up to this day: this room is never used by people, the windows are all shut up.
In Cappagh there are the ruin of an old house, a man named Hickey lived there. He got married and six months after a small man came in when Mrs. Hickey was washing and asked for something but she refused. the day after she became sick and got a fever from which she died. Mr Hickey also got a fever and was not able to attend his wife's funeral. After that he left the house altogether. The ruins may be seen yet.
Local Cures
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"Pharcy" in horses was a disease which was also cured by charms. I have heard several stories of cures of this trouble by one Mr Kennedy Clonoulty Tipperary and Johnny Keating Ballydavid near Bansha Tipperary
Kennedy cured only on Friday Jack O'Neill of this district had a horse which suffered from Pharcy. He took the horse to Kennedy on Tuesday but the cure was not very effective. He went again on Friday and although the anumal was then in a bad state, his whole body souping and swollen, it was found hat the charm had worked an the horse was perfectly cured the following morning. All the souping matter had hardened into white crusts, scaling off the body.
Keating cured a valuable mare. The da of Hackler's Pride and the property of one Pat Quinlan Miltown, Sologhead, of Pharcy. He used unsalted butter; cut a slit in the animal's leg and put the unsalted butter into it. He then put
The 'Bean Gasta'
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She was an old woman when my grandfather was a little lad. Hers was a little house, neatly thatched, where order and peace reigned within and without. I never heard her surname - to the neighbours she was the "Bean Gasta". On her dresser the plates shone as if they knew they belonged to her. If one was taken down there was nothing to reveal - no untidy "odds and ends" pushed behind it.Yet the neighbouring housekeepers were not envious of her. The houses in her immediate locality reflected the "Bean Gasta's" and her neat homespuns, spotless aprons and beautiful ironed caps set a standard for the other "Bean a' Tighes" of the parish. Her butter, her sweet baked bread, the "ketchup" from the mushrooms, the jam she made from the "hurts" - did anyone ever taste anything like it?Her little home was in Ballydavid near the old "Wattled Bridge". The farm has long since passed into the hands of strangers but the old people still refer to it as the "Bean Gasta's" place.
Eibhlín Bean Uí Mheiscill O.S.
The Keating Eviction
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The following account of the above Eviction which occurred above the year 180 I got from Mrs Margaret Grogan. Montanvoe, Bansha, aged 77 yrs (1939) who is a relation of the Keating family + whose husband was an eye-witness of the Eviction. The Keating home was situated in the Townsland of Ballydavid about 2 mls S. S. E. of Bansha village and is adjacent to what is called the Wattle Bridge spanning the river Aherlow. The Bridge was so called because it was constructed of rough timber wattle.
A brother and three sisters were the defenders when the place was was surrounded by Peelers + Bailiffs.
Bessie, Bridget + Annie Keating, all young girls in their twenties, were the heroines of the fight.
For weeks previous to the coming of the peelers they gathered the ears of wheat off the stems as it
Irish Tradition in the Glen of Aherlow
“A Fragment of an old Irish song that my Mother - Mrs Margaret Grogan, Montanavoe, Bansha had from her father - Michael Tobin - Ballydavid, Bansha (a native Irish speaker).”
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A fragment of an old Irish song that my mother - Mrs Margaret Grogan now Montánavoe, Bansha had from her father -Michael Tobin
Ballydavid
Bansha
(a native Irish speaker)
"Codhladh, Codhlach, Chucín DonnSin é an Sionnach, bídeach, bradach,Tríd an / a' Giorrach chughat anall"
(gan teideal)
“The following are some of the Irish terms used by the late 'Het' Grogan.”
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The following are some of the Irish terms used by the late "Het" Grogan."Goblachan":-This was applied to an animal with a twisted or "crooked" mouth and is used still in the Glen of Aherlow. For example, a goblachan calf or a goblachan sheep is heard."Bean Ghasta":-Applied to a little woman who lived near the Wattle Bridge, Ballydavid, Bansha, who was known for her personal tidiness and the cleanliness of her little home.
Now applied here to a "cute", tidy child.