CAPPA = Cappawhite parish1. "If you come to the hurling with me, I'll give you the best time you ever had in your life in the 'Stradda Mhór'"
Formerly the Main St of Thurles. Isn't this an extraordinary case of metathesis? "Str" for "tSr, (Thurles)
2. "That's another day of the week ", ie a different matter , or aspect of the question, altogether (Doon and Cappa).
3. 'That's what makes the land dear'. Said to a person; or of a person, wh is fond of interfering. from Land War (Doon and Cappa).
4. "We never died of a winter yet". Cheer up. While there is life there is hope. (Doon).
5. "I never killt a man or burnt a house" - nobody can accuse me of anything out of the way (Doon).
6. "It's not the cow with the big dug that gives all the milk". Appearances are deceptive - don't take book by the cover (Doon).
7. "The big feather for the big tick" - rich associates with rich .
8. "As dead as a cock" = as a door nail (Doon and Cappa).
9. A Dhómhnaill Uí Chonaill, dtuigeann tú Gaedhilge? Time for us to be clearing out of here (Doon).
10. "We're you ever drunk at a fair? " Said to spur one to his best endeavour (Doon) from faction fights.
11. "What gobán made that?" = handyman, spoil-stick (Doon)
12. "As deaf as a bīttle" (Doon and Cappa).
13. As cowld as a plough (Doon)
14. "Put the clock up" (Doon)= the clock is slow. Advance the hands. "Train time will be up an hour tomorrow"

29. "I have an "old" shilling that the sun or moon never shone down on"(Doon) = on the Q.T. moonlighting or poitín?
30. "A strong farmer" Definition: "a farmer who bulls his own cows" and some add "and who has a priest in the family and a seat on the gallery" (Co Limerick,passinn)
31. "I couldn't put 2 notes together. Father Mat Ryan R.I.P whom we buried on Sat. aged 96 when asked to sing at a party declared: "I could never put two notes together - not even pound notes".
32. "President de Valery was at Father Mat's funeral". Local wag: "Did he stand a bear"? "No, he stood beside the bier". What five?"
33. An awful voice : Did you ever hear my daughter sing?". She has an awful voice. (= excellent) Doon.
34. "That bull is honest" (= macánta) Doon and Cappa
35. "They are friendly to me (= related) Doon and Cappa
36. "Pat Ryan is dead again '(=also) Doon and Cappa
37. "Take it away before he spills it (= lest he won) Doon and Cappa.
38. "A suit of hand-me-downs (= ready made) D &C
39. "He knocked the knee out of the chair) Cappa.
40. Back-strap used in ploughing= dromach here and dromán in Carlow.Easter Water. Each member of the family must take 3 sips of the Easter Water. It is kept from year to year and a little of each year's water is put into a large bottle "for keeps" Our bottle reads "Easter Water 1924 - 1937"

Father Hickey, P.P. of Doon (1) who spent all his life fighting and bullying landlords and Tories and to arrest whose cow 'the whole British army' infantry and cavalry was sent to Doon, had another side to his character.
"Father Hickey want to have martyrs. He wanted the people to die for the faith. He had a big field of turnips growing beside his house the year of the famine and he had 2 men minding it with sticks lest any poor person might take a turnip to save himself or herself from death. The people in Gurtavalla suffered most that
(1)Father Hickey, born 1788 at------------near Thurles. Officiated in Doon Parish 1824 -1874. Died aged 86 yrs

15. "Does she think it's Dean Swift she has?", as the girl said of the mistress who was always telling her hurry, hurry (Co. Tipp N).
16. He is not injuring her at all; it's serving her he is", as Peter Horgan the poet said when he saw the boar and sow. (Cappa).
17. Ned the M sat for an exam to join the old R.I.C. He failed. "Why happened, Ned to say you failed the exam?" "I think I put too many Zs in scissors". He was a tailor! [Doon
18. "They do be in it" (Doon and Cappa) = The fairies one.
19. "They are coming for me", said when anything happens.
20. "I haven't enough to 'sop' a goat (Cappa) (i) - No land.
21. "I haven't the grass of a maggot" (Doon) - no land.
22. Bushy eyebrows sign of long life (Cappa) M. Quirke.
23. "Any day of the week" = at any time at all (Doon and Cappa).
24. "That's a horse of another colour" - a different matter.
25. If you get a hurl when you are young , it may OFFEND you before you die"" (Cappa) = come against you.
26. "Black fist" exchanging for something you don't see. Pig in poke but only done with article concealed in 'fisht' (Doon).
27. "He is all edge" - full of enthusiasm (Murroe, Co Limk. ).
28. "He hasn't what wd. clean a pair of candle-sticks" - ie. Very poor (Murroe). Candlesticks lent for wake must be cleaned before being returned to owner.

were going to Confession. As soon as the priest pulled back the slide, he served the writ & left the box. Father Patrick came out immediately with the blue document in his hand. ba leor [?] The women of Doon stoned the unfortunate process-server to death with stones before he reached the cross.
{As this story is so well to all - no need to specify author]
"Mr" Hickey was P.P of Doon during the Tithes War & during the Famine.
On one occasion when he refused to pay the tithe "the British Army" infantry, cavalry and artillery arrived in Doon to arrest his cow. Fully described in "60 years of Irish Life" by Lefanu, the minister's son. No need to copy here.
"Mr" Hickey on his way by Kilmoylan House to attend a station was ordered back by the owner, Mr Newport White (Snr} The priest refused to go back. Newport went in for the gun & threatened to shoot
Father Hickey defied him & Newport was

A young man named Woods (still living) came to Father Patrick(1) O Donnell, P.P. of Doon about 40 years ago and expressed a wish to become Catholic. As he was under 18 years of age the Protestant Church Body took legal proceedings against the P.P. The process-server found it absolutely impossible to serve the necessary document on him.
Finally he arrived in Doon when the priest was hearing and entered the box as if he(1) Not Father Pat who was his nephew

Crowe of Cappawhite. .....That's right of course. Father Crowe as you say had no jurisdiction in Doon parish but he was a great national priest and there is no knowing what power (=supernatural power) he had. He told the people not to be a bit afraid, that nothing would come out of the guns except SAW - DUST if the soldiers fired. The people had a trap laid for the soldiers too, in a deep trench full of water, all covered over with bushes and ferns and they had part of the old castle ready to topple over on them if they tried any of their tricks. When they saw the priest with the book open they got afraid. They all left in the evening and there was no one evicted that day but it was near being very serious" (meaning that the priests had been almost driven to use their"power").
Dan O Mahony Tailor: Father Hickey did the same at the Knockowragh eviction. He told the people that nothing but water would come out of the guns if the soldiers fired at them. The people took up stones and pelted the soldiers and police out of the place. Doon was a hot shop during the time of the landlords. The people never showed the white feather, but the priests were always there to help them in every trouble. The Hayes are gone and the Quinlans and Bradle , too, of course.

James O'Dwyer , Merchant, Doon.
I knew him intimately 1914-1920 when he died at age of 86. Fine Irish speaker, Nat of Cahernahalla where his father had a flour-mill. Served his time in Co Mayo. Learned his Irish there and preserved the Mayo blas until he died.
"40 years ago", he often said (c.1916) there was only one spring car coming into the street of Doon. Look around you now and what do you see"
He was never done quoting Brian Ruadh.
There were brothers named Benten living up the mountains. James O'D told me many funny stories about them. Two old brothers -aged 60 or so living at the back of God speed.
They came to Doon to buy a bed. Paddy stands at the pony's head and Bill enters Dwyer to make the deal. James showed him his stock. Bill comes out and holds consultation with Paddy: "We have all kinds of beds, wooden beds and iron beds and spring beds. He say the spring beds is the best but they a bit dearish. I suppose we'll take a spring-bed. "All right" agrees Paddy but on second thoughts he shouts after Bill "in the top of his head: Hie, Paddy, What good would a spring bed be? Get one that will do for the round of the year and don't let him be codding you.
They bought an alarum clock on another occasion

There was another living over Doon in Gort na gCaoireach and he caught the leipreachán one day. Come upon him and him asleep under a big buachallán. The man had him secured before the little man woke. He brought him home and kept him close prisoner in a box beside the fire. He was always promising the leipreachán that

Long House and Short House.The Chapel (Doon)
A. The Long House
B. The Short House
C. The Short House.
"I did not see you on the gallery today"
"No. I was a bit late and I slipped into the Short House (or Long House).
Altar runs South East.
Some priest of Doon pronounced a dreadful curse against anybody who would smoke inside the chapel gate. I remember Father Kelly, (R.I.P.) roaring at a stranger (in 1915) "Remove that cigar out of your mouth". Twas only a cigarette! Kitchen (A) open to roof - not ceiled. All the other rooms (B.C.D.) "lofted" - access gained to room one C and D by means of moveable ladder. TwoPlan ground floor --- end windows on second storey
Usual 'three-windowed' form house. Doon and Cappawhite Parishes The 'four-windowed' house has an extra bedroom to right of the parlour and an extra room overhead.
The front door of nearly all the country houses faces Galtee Mór, wh.lies due S of Cappawhite " All the doors face Galtee Mór"

year and only for "Kennyswell", they would be all dead. The water of that well was food and drink for them. There was one poor family in Gortavalla and the children were roaring with the hunger this night. The husband could stick it no longer, that he would go to Anderson(1) for some of the meal. "Don't attempt to do any such thing ' says the wife, let them die for God sooner than we'll forsake our religion. There's enough cat breacs(2) here already. Wait now and I'll go to Kenny Well for a drop of water for the créatúr's and you'll see it'll ease them.
She got the little gallon and set out for the well - she had only 2 little fields to cross. When she was going over the style, she laid her hand on the ditch and she felt the hard cold thing on the ditch. She picked it and what was it but a half-crown piece. She ran back as best she as was able and told her husband the good news. She went up to Doon and bought a couple of stone of meal and the only dread that was on her was that the children might eat too much and burst. That poor woman had good reason to thank St Kenny,(1) Anderson, minister who gave out meal on condition that the applicant recanted the errors of Pope and popery, brass money and wooden shoes.
(2) Cat breac, the Doon word for one who succumbed to the soupers in the famine years. "So-so were "cat breac's"

"Did the women take part in the fighting too?"
"To be sure, a ghile. It w'd be a cold hearted unnatural sort of a woman , if she had any good drop in it that wouldn't come to the assistance of her man or her boys in the thick of the fray. Sure you heard what the woman did in Limerick when they helped Sarsfield with the stones in their sticking and wan heard often how they killed the bailiff in Doon (See page ___)

Michael Quirke (continues on being requested)
Michael Hayes was a strong farmer living in
Castletown just below Doon. It seems that he was a kind of an agent at one time himself but that he got broke. Father Hickey (1824-1874) P.P of Doon said at one time 'Hayes, Quinlan & Bradle will fall by each other' and his words came true. The three were always squabbling about the rent.
Michael Hayes went in to Tipperary to pay his rent to Bradle, the Agent, in his office. He walked in, laid down his hat - a tall one, I suppose, on the counter. Bradle refused to take the rent. 'Well', says Hayes; if you won't take the rent, take this,' drawing the revolver out of his hat & giving him the contents. Dan Moore, the rent warner had a narrow escape the same day. He was in the office & the bullet hit the bolt of the door beside him.'Bradle lay mortally wounded
Michael Hayes, he walked out in the street
He made no alarum about it
And no enemy there did he meet.' (Old Song)Hayes left the town safely & made in the direction of the Limerick Junction. There were men making hayin a field there & he got into a 'pike' of hay & they covered

An old woman dreamt that there was gold hidden in a certain part of an old house in Doon right opposite Hayes' Forge. There is no trace of the house now. She told the owner of the field, Mr Richard, what she had dreamt and described to him exactly where the gold was as it had been shown to her in the dream. To come at the spot he had to knock down most of the house and a fine big old ruin it was. He had 3 or 4 men working on the job and this day when they were getting very near the corner where the gold lay under an 'edger', as Larry

Doyle would call it, God rest his soul. Old Richardson ordered the dinner early when the men were coming too near the spot. He sent them down to their dinner at about 11am and when they were gone he fell to like a man and when he removed the edger there lay the pile of gold. When the men were coming back from their dinner they met him coming 'agîn' them and the big lump wrapped up in a riding coat.
Father Hickey was in Dublin shortly after that. He had business with the gold-smith. The gold-smith asked him
Have you a Mr Richardson in your parish?
Why sure replied the priest
Well said the goldsmith you will soon see him rolling in his coach and four.
I don't know if he ever rolled in his coach and four. He never gave a penny to the old woman. The Richardson had no luck with the money. Two of them got killed. They had a fine business house in Doon before that and branch houses in Cappawhite and in Holly fort, but things didn't go well with them. I often heard that they were bringing a load of whisky from Holly Ford or Cappawhite to Doon and the cart got capsized at Cahernahallis Bridge. That whisky was so strong that the water of the river would set you drunk 2 miles below the bridge.
Young Mr Pat was driving from one of their farms in Bilboa one evening when he got killed. Mr Thomas

[See Illustrated article "Odd Corners in History", Sunday Independent of about six months ago]I always heard him called the CUT Quinlan in Doon but the people around here ( three miles nearer to his native place wh is only six miles from here) insist that his nick-name was CUD

Parish Boundaries - How MarkedNB :- Traced from 25" O.S.Map Tipp L 8
Parish Boundary marked in Blue.Ceathrú na h-Aille tá an fhaill ag bruach na h-Abhann Bige (thiar)
Mothg now pron. "móthar"Parish Boundary marked by letting ditch out 2 yds or so on the road as shown by the little plot marked RED.
The two townlands shown above belong to Co. Tipp. geographically and municipally but the townland of Cahernahallia is in the mod.R.C. Parish of Doon (Co Limerick). Both belonged to the ancient Parish of Toem (Down Survey) but when the 2 modern parishes of Doon and Cappawhite were instituted, the ancient Parish of Toem was divided between them, Cahernahallia going to the former, Moher West,etc to the latter. Toem was a very small parish around the Monastery of the Canons Regular, finally suppressed by Queen Elizabeth. Cahernahallia had at the same time it's own religious establishment (Prebands of St -----------------) (I forget the name for the moment but I shall be speaking of Ceathrú na h-Aille again.
There are in this locality many examples of this method of

"He took the bush" Rug sé an chraobh leis (Doon and Cappa)
"I'd give him the bush" = I would not come against him = I'd say he is (or was) right OR the Irish meaning

Michael Hayes was wounded the same day. He fired at Bradle and Bradle fired at him, but the finish of it was that he shot Bradle as dead as a cock. He lost his health from sleeping out when he was dodging the peelers and with that and the effects of his wounds he did not live for many years. I heard that his body was brought to be buried in a load of hay. The man who make the song was arrested for making them at least for making the first one. When he got out of gaol, he changed the song into the " Fox Chase""In Cappawhite I slept one night
"Being arrested in the morning early"
"I ran to Toem and soon reached Doon
"Where I knew each nook and corner
"And I did not lag crossing COOGA Bog
"But I jumped the deep dead water
"Tallyho"
Usual curfá as Gaedhilg"You should have known a daughter of his, Peig Hayes. She had that house (in Doon) where Cramer now has the meat stall. She had a public business (= public house) but she usedn't serve in the shop herself. She used to let it to different parties.Quinlan, another farmer from Castletown, was

Contents on Last pageCore Bound inExcept where specificall stated, thus (Carlow), the contents of this collection [?] to the Border land of Tipp-Limerick living in parishes of Doon & [?] (former in Co. Lmk & latter in Co Tipp.[Drawing] - Map