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  1. Maud who Grew a Tail!

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    All the other members of the jury met with dreadful deaths. Bagwell from the Glen (that is, "of Aherlow") turned into worms before he died and was rotten on the bed . Some people would tell that old Maud like Queen Elizabeth was roasting in Hell before he died. Moll Dunlea fell into a cellar and broke her neck, and Jack Lonergan ran away from her and listed. He died of a frightful disease in Dublin. The curse of God was visible on them all and on their places. Another of them got shot and you could search all Tipperary today and you'll find none of their heirs in the old places.
    The public house in Dundrum changed hands often during the last 50 years. It is not every one the Haywards would let into it and no one dare put up his own name over the door.
    NOTES: It is scarcely likely that both Maud and Moll died from injuries received from falling into a cellar. I think we may safely reserve the honour for the lady.

    Effects of Maud's tyranny:-
    Dundrum is still well wooded and the red deer is very plentiful. We have a couple of days' of sport each year shooting the deer @£5 per diem. Protestant families are very numerous in the locality, Protestants and 'cait bhreaca'.
    Position of Dundrum, Co.Tipp. 8 miles N of Limerick Junction - next railway station to Limerick Junction.
  2. Maud who Grew a Tail!

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    The first Maud was a drummer in Cromwell's army. When he got as far as Dundrum, the drum burst and he laid it down. That's why the place is called "Down -drum....".
    DANNY MALONY, TAILOR age 54 years:-
    "No. He said 'I'm done drumming' That's why it is called 'done-drum'
    M QUESTION CONTINUED:
    "At any rate Maud was given a big estate in Dundrum and all the Catholics were hunted out of their property.
    The Mauds were a notoriously bad lot. You couldn't look
  3. Maud who Grew a Tail!

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    crooked at them or they would ram you into prison. They were very hard on the poor. If you were a penny short on the rent, out you went and often too when the rent was paid, bedad.They'd drive on top of you if you didn't keep out of the way. They planted al the trees in Dundrum and built the great house where the nuns are now. They'd only allow one public house in Dundrum and one shop of any kind - one smith, one carpenter, one tailor and so on, and the publican couldn't put up his own name Furlong. He had to put 'Haywarden(i) & Arms' over his door instead of his own name (Furlong) The 'Rookeries ' of the estate were famous until the time of Sir Thomas Maud, the Maud who grew a tail.
    "' MAUD, MOLL DUNLEA and JACK LONERGAN
    Maud was on the jury that found Father Sheehy guilty. The priest was arrested for swearing in Whiteboys but that was only a mar dheadh of a story. They wanted to do for him at any costs and they rigged up that charge against him but he was as innocent as the child unborn. Moll Dunlea was a common woman of the roads and Jack Lonergan was a young foolish lad. These were the 2 principal witnesses against Father Sheehy. They got Moll married to Jack to make a respectable married woman out of her. So she appeared in the witness-box as Mrs Jack Lonergan .
    [(i) One of the Mauds became Lord Haywarden]
    "Haywarden &Arms" perhaps.
  4. Maud who Grew a Tail!

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    "The rope wouldn't hang him. There was something wrong with the rope until he fixed it himself.
    JOSEPH HAMMERSLEY, Toem, Carpenter, age 50:
    "He made a súgán rope and that hanged him"
    MICHAEL RELEGHAN, Toem, Farmer, aged 54:
    "No, he was hanged with a thread of silk"
    M QUIRKE(continuing): His head was cut off and stuck up on the goal gate in Clonmel. When the head was cut off old Maud said 'There is nothing to be done with the head now except to bring it to Dundrum and let the crows pick it'. A crow never 'lit' in Dundrum since as long as the Mauds were in possession. I don't think they ever passed over it. But they are back again since the nuns came to live there.
    The head was stuck up on the gate with a company of soldiers guarding it by night and by day. There was no chance of getting the head. Father Sheehy's sister was a Rev. Mother and she kept watching for 3 days and nights trying to get the head. On the third day a carter came over to her and said "I see you here for the last 3 days walking up and down. Is anything the matter?' She up and told him the whole story 'Wait where you are' says he 'and I'll get you the head' He walked over to the gate and took down the head on the crop of his whip and they never saw him doing it although it was broad daylight. He brought her over the head
  5. Barrington, the Coppersmith and Cromwell

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    Arts and Craft School there - 'the lads in the Laurels as the P.P. calls them. He has no great love for them because they say Mass too chief. If you offered him 5/- or 10/- to get a Mass said, he'd say 'take that to the lads in the laurels.
    [Even as late as 1914 Sir Charles had big Scotch bullies to drive visitors off the estate. They closed(chased?) me in 1914 - P.M.D - and they shot a hound dead on.............. although he had the dog on lease, about the same time.
    M.Flood: Like Mauds of Dundrum, Barrington would only allow one pub., one forge, one carpenter's shop - only one of everything. On one occasion a tenant whitewashed his farm house without permission. Barrington made him blacken it again. If a tenant wanted to break a field he had to consult Barrington.
    Joseph Hammersly: " That was the rule all over, them times".
    The Agent came to collect the Rent at Cahernahallis Lodge. All the tenants came with the rent but when ...................turn
    came he was told to stand back. When all the rent except his was collected the agent sent for him 'You have a grey-hound' says he...................knew there was no good in denying when he saw how quick the senging(?) had gone. "I can't take your rent until you destroy that greyhound. He had to go and destroy him or be evicted
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    My uncle Bill and a neighbouring man were coming home from cuarduigheacht one night.

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    My uncle Bill & a neighbouring man were coming home from cuarduigheacht one night. A grand bright night by the some token. When they were passing the wall beyond at Dundrum, the neighbouring man & he was friendly to us, too, looked into the field. "The devil or fiver" says he "well played, Paddy" My uncle Bill was for coming home but the neighbouring man wouldn't budge.
    "Would you like to see them" says he "is so all you have to do is to put your foot on my instep", but my uncle Bill was afraid he might see them & wouldn't raise the [?].
    MIss Ryan:-
    "When I was young an old man used to come around plucking the geese. When he had the geese plucked he used to say
    "Cá bhfuil mo hata agus mo bhata agus mo mhala?"
    - Whatever that means. Maybe it's Irish!
    ----
    Co. Limerick Whites - Protestants
    " Tipp White - Rom. Catholics
    Ipl. in the Earl of Ormond, is dócha
  7. Bradle, Agent, Shot Dead in Tipperary

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    shot here (i.e in Ballylove next townland to Tuam an S) one night coming from Tipperary after selling a load of pigs or butter. You can see the spot. I think the bush is there still on the side of the road. The blackthorns never grew an inch since. They say there's something seen there at night. Jim bán had great trouble in getting his horse to pass that spot one night not so long ago
    "There were some terrible big fields on the Dundrum Estate. It was divided under the 1903 Act. There was one field containing 109 Irish acres and another had 105 Irish acres in it. The Lower Field, now belonging to the nuns is 68 Irish acres in extent.
    Eviction at Knockougragh (Cnoch Odhroe or Cnoc Gabhrach)
    "Father Crowe along did go his cause for to lay down
    To rouse the people up and down in the country and in town...etc"
    Song composed by Peter Horgan (local poet)
    Lines on Parson Topping
    "Old Topping came hopping to preach in TOEM Church.
    He appeared like a raven or if I could say something worse.
    His mouth like a cod-fish and the eyes did beam in his hood
    and his teeth were like the nails what were nailed round Calvin's old bed"
    -Peter Horgan (local poet)
    Peter Horgan (i.e. Dwyer (Horgan) was an illiterate poet of great parts. Wrote scenes of topical songs. Lived in townland of Cappawhite. Died in the year 1910.