Volume: CBÉ 0407 (Part 1)

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The Main Manuscript Collection, Volume 0407, Page 0082

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    There was a public house in Gráig na Spideog about 60 years ago.

    There was a public house (owner Rudrick pr. "Reddicks") in Gráig na Spideog about 60 years ago. Scene of dreadful orgies of drink– porter coming out under the door. There is at present a respectable pub. half a mile to E on Ballon road. Name and sign the "Fighting Cocks"– favourite pastime of olden times.
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    Date
    1908
    Item type
    Lore
    Language
    English
    Writing mode
    Handwritten
    Writing script
    Roman script
    Informant
  2. On one occasion the PP. of Tinryland asked the chaple-man (O'Neill) who was going to Carlow to bring him some special boards from the sawmill. O'Neill forgot them and in a rage the priest exclaimed: "The Curse of Cromwell on you." Poor Neill hadn't gone 100 yds before he dropped down on the road, stricken with rheumatic pains from wh. he never recovered. The priest did all in his power but all in 'vain'. The priest avowed that the word merely slipped from him and that he had no malice in his heart whatsoever.
    Some yeomen, captain and privates went to shoot a certain priest in 1798. He asked permission to say his prayers. When he been praying for some moments he said: "Now, gentlemen, fire away if you are able." They couldn't stir hand or foot and remained "tied to the chairs" until the priest willed to release them from the invisible bonds.
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.