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

"There's a hole on the house", said the minister when they were about to burn 'Lundy-foot" (c.1870)
"Hide & seek" becomes "Hide & go seek"
If you enter while the people are eating sat "Sit yous merry"(=Sityez merry)
"By your lave" for "pardon me, when a person wishes to pass between you & the fire, etc.
"A cure for sore eyes to see you" "We'll have to shake green rushes under your feet" (you'r such a stranger & so welcome. Céad míle fáilte.
You'd think his oul' head wore out 3 or 4 bodies.
Holly & Ivy went to the wood
Holly brought boy home by the "lug" (ear)
A slate pencil is called a "cutter".
Hydrophobia up to 50 years ago people dreaded Hydrophobia as much as they fear cancer today. As soon as Pat Dowling, Herd, Castletown had a droop taken his only topic was hydrophobia. He had spent some time in Australia - His two daughters are nuns in Derry In 1894 Tom Heydon, ploughman, Bennekerry, wife & 6 children were bitten by a mad dog. They were all sent to Paris to P & returned cured. Before that there was no cure execution or committed to an asylum for the insane.

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

the money for some what may she is sure to be in town that day. It doesn't matter what money she gets during the year for chickens butter, eggs, etc. She will spend it there and then on groceries but the turkey money is kept to buy boots shoes, and clothes and whatever else is needed for the daughters and herself. The turkeys are sold about a fortnight before christmas, so the girls get a big day out in town to buy a warm coat or hat and to see the shop windows that are so gaily decorated at this time.The next big event is preparing for Christmas. There is a big "clean up" again. It is a very busy time for the bean-a-tigh. The kitchen is white washed, and holly and ivy is put

up. The putting up of the holly and ivy is generally the children's work. They are now on holidays of course and they are here there and everywhere, and all must get a day in town to see the windows and buy their toys, that they are saving up to buy since the harvest time. It is a busy and exciting time for everybody as the days are so short and so much work to be got through.About a week before Christmas the woman of the house goes to town to buy what is needed for the great day. The "makings" of the pudding and the sweet cakes and a small "drop of whiskey" which is so dear now that very little of it comes to the house at all. A dozen of stout