Volume: CBÉ 0407 (Part 1)

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   “I spent most of summer holidays 1910 & 1911 in company with Willie Doyle. Fine steady young man of most exemplory who had devoted all his sprae time to the study of antiquities and folklore.”

   

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   I must again return to my father as I think it better to give all the folklore (I associate with individuals and with places mentioned before) in globs and at one sitting, so to speak.

   

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2. Father Clowry

   

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   Father Clowry, strong, determined, rational, inveterate enemy of oppression & father of the poor was P.P of Grangeford, Co. Carlow from about 1825-1845. As champion of the people & their rights he was in constant conflict with the Orange ascendency & the unjust landlords, and although they hated Mr Clowry they lived in “mortal dread of him”. The leases of the tenants on the Ballinatămple estate “fell”

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   Date

   1908

   Item type

   Lore

   Language

   English

   Writing mode

   Handwritten

   Writing script

   Roman script

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