Volume: CBÉ 0407 (Part 1)

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   The following pages are written in connection with your circular "Items about which ....." Information from my father or such as was universally current during my young days (1900 - 1914)
   Placenames: "The Holly Bush, halfway between Castletown U Grague na spidogue, on the high road. Famous meeting place for gossips from time immemorial. Townland of "leainac". The stumps of the old holly bush was extent which I was a youth. Tinryland. Top of the little hill on wh. school, chapel & houses are built is perfectly flat; ideal for a bowling green (réileáin). Some old people held the view that the name: tig ríng an oiléain. Lower Tinryland was called "crógibín" Well said to be blessed. Cloughna on the Barrow, near Milford,puzzled me very much until I found in the inquisitions of 1606, item Cloughna, alias New Stone (ie Cloc Nuad). Tendency in Leinster to wake "Nu" single cousoned like QU. Old Road from Tinryland to KyleBallyhue ran thro' Castletown & is still used a "mass path". Some of the old is still intact except that it is overgrown with grass. Protestant owner of E Tinryland built a beautiful double ditch in an effort to entice the people from the mass path & thus break their right of way. All in vain, however. The double ditch was never used by the people. The part of this old road still in public thro Kyle is called the "Dark Road". Commons. The little village of Connaberry, adjoining Ballon was a common when I was

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