John Roche Eaglehill Hacketstown
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Jas. Coleman Hacketstown(50) story heard from Mat Roche when 70 tis now 30 yrs. dead.
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killed at Hacketstown too. He lived where Hacketts live now & an orangeman killed him because he was after turning Catholic. A Pollard called the Big Smith was married to a Catholic girl. They has seven sons but he wouldn't let her near the Catholics but when he was killed with it years at Hacketstown she did rear them Catholics and four of them settled down here & their descendants are here still & that is how we have the Roman Pollards & the Protestant Pollards.
Stories of '98 Recorded from Thos. Ellis, Ballasalla, Hacketstown
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Ballysallagh Upper, Co. Carlow
battle of Hacketstown & walked 4 1/2 miles the day after to see the burying of the dead. "Tom" She would say to our storyteller "if you ever saw these things you would never want to see a rebellion in Ireland again. Tom's paternal ancestors the Ellises were Yeomen & Protestants & fought with the yeo's at Hacketstown. His grandfather was converted on his death bed. They were smiths & were [charged] about on the Fitzwilliam estate as the landlord according to him enlarged & "rounded off" the different farms. They were [charged] from a farm in Knocknabaley to Rasheenmore & later from Rasheenmore-
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was fighting with the rebels. He died 3 weeks after & she saw him coming up the road & his sword & top boots & all strapped on his coffin & a troop of soldiers marching behind & before going to fire over him. He was buried at Hacketstown.
That night a fellow who lay among the dead all day opposite the Barracks rose up & shouted "Boys of Wexford, have you the barracks taken" & the guards couldn't see him but they fired at the voice & killed him.
The day after the battle my grandmother she was a girl of 16 then walked into Hacketstown. -
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N.B. Hays in "Insurrection of Co. Wexford" says "They (insurgents from Gorey) encamped on the night of 24th at Ballymanus where uniting their forces with those of Garret Byrne the whole moved on the morning of the 25th towards Hacketstown". 
The Drummer of Hacketstown
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The drummer of Hacketstown was going to Rays of Borth and two men followed him so they chased him to the house so they enquired of Mrs Ray did anyone go in there and she denied it and so when they come to the stairs they saw a track up the stairs and he got in under
Star House
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An Orangeman named Case lived at Tooles of Ballasalla which was called the 'Star House' and one night the boys brought him out and bet him till they thought he was dead and then they stripped him to his skin and threw an old ditch on him but the cold clay revived him and he got up and ran into the Barracks at Hacketstown and when the Guards saw him they thought he was a mad man and they ran away and left the Barracks to him.-
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fishing down at the river & he went down to him & told him his story & Nixon gave him his rod & told him to let on to be fishing & Nixon went back & put off he soldiers & Keefe was never heard of after.
N.B. He heard that Billy Byrne was not in the battle that day that it was Dwyers crowd that did the fighting though Tom's brother Ned (72) said that he often heard it said that when Billy & his men were passing by the house of the Parish Priest Fr. [Blanchville?] at [Rathnafushough] a mile from Hacketstown they halted -
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green of Hacketstown he met a party of the boys who came from Kyle. There was a Cullen of [Carndag?] & P. Loughlin married to a sister of Cullens, Mick Darcy & John Farrell of Kyle & they saw a Redcoat on horseback riding around the moat on Eaglehill & Cullen said "My head for a hapenny if I don't leave his head lower than his backside before he is much older." He threw his gun across a little sod ditch that was beside the chapel & just with the crack of the gun they could see the red coat falling out of the saddle. The red coat was a scout -
Stories of '98 Recorded from Thos. Ellis, Ballasalla, Hacketstown
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Ballysallagh Upper, Co. Carlow
Stories of '98 Recorded from Thos. Ellis, Ballasalla, Hacketstown
Received 11.6.1935
Tom is feeble & finds it very hard to express himself. He is not & never was a storyteller & any peculiar idioms which he uses are ones that slip from him unconsciously have been picked up from his grandmother by continuous repitition. He is easily confused & has not himself a very clear picture of the things of which he speaks - he is rather a dictaphone record of his grandmothers stories. Little questions completely confusess him. He has never had to anything for himself having spent his whole life with a -
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Battle of Hacketstown
Tom's recollection's of this battle are confined chiefly to incidents & he has no idea of the plan of campaign adopted by either force nor has he any idea of the number who participated. In many important details he differs from the account given by Mrs. O'Toole & by the historians & again in points where she differs from the historians of the time he would seem to bear them out though he does not read nor has he heard been read any account of the battle I am quite certain on this point for many reasons.
The first intimation that his -
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N.B. 1
Historians say that yeomen knew that they were going to be attacked as the rebels were seen mobilising around Hacketstown the days before the battle.N.B. 2
Battle was fought on June 25th. Rather early for reaping corn. -
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& Fr. [Blackville?] came out & said that there was no use in their going to fight for freedom that day that they were 100 years too soon
Early in the day says Tom[,] Hume of Humewood who was afraid to stay in his castle & afraid to go fight at Hacketstown sent his yeo's under a Capt. McCabe to fight & went himself to [Farnsight] where Kelly was working in Keefe's field. He gave Kelly a soverign (sic) & his horse to ride in every hour to Hackeststown to see how the battle was going. He came in the Ballasalla road which was an Orange road & about the 2nd or 3rd time he came to the -
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of Nixon's who was on the back (N.B.) road with his cavalry & when he saw the fellow falling out of the saddle he said. "We won't go into Hacketstown or we'll be eaten when a man can't go within a mile of the town without being shot."
So Nixon returned to Gould or Money or wherever he was from & John Keefe said that every field that there was a bunch of (N.B 2.) reapers or binders he ordered his soldiers to fire on them to get revenge. He used to get people leashed & flogged to death. A Whelan belonging to old Darcy (mentioned above) got flogged or shot or something & Darcy went -
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put up his handkerchief over his head so as it could be seen at the town & they did not shoot Larry 'til he came up & got him free.
{N.B.} When Lieutenant Laurence was going home that evening he called to my grandmothers house in Kyle & called out my grandfather Whitty & said 'Who did I see today but big [M____?] of Ahowle[?] in Hacketstown" & then he showed the blood on his sword "I am bringing home this clot of Papish blood to show to my wife" but he didn't say he killed him or anything but big [M____?] was found dead next day. I don't know whether he was only passing through or 
Grandmother and Mare
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out his sword & made a dash at
John Whitty. Moody put the
[torch?] on top of the ditch & jumped
out on the road & with a curse
swore that if Laurence did not
put his sword in his "sabre" & go
his way he would sweep the head
off him. Laurence apologised &
said he would not draw a drop of
Tom Whitty's son's blood for
anybody only he was in such a
rage owhen he heard of his son
Antony's death in Hacketstown
that he told his wife that he's
kill every croppy he'd meet
from that to Hacketstown. Yeomen
used to wear their hair like a
womans & Catholics had them
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“A respectable gentleman came from Co Wexford to Rashanemore...”
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James Neill (40) Hacketstown told by his mother. Father was a noted story tellerA respectable gentleman came from Co. Wexford to Rashanmore with his £500 and was married to a Miss ?Smahore? in this big house and in a short time after the man was ploughing his field about him and he saw alittle small woman coming across for the style and the style was fenced up and this man thought what he should do what he could to prevent this woman from coming across so he seen her coming across the style and knocking down the fnece and he took his hands off the handles of the plough and when he went down the woman disappeared. There was no woman there so he had to unyoke his beasts and go home as he went to bed for some
The Three King's Sons
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Recorded from James Coleman HacketstownThere was a king and he had three sons and the old king and queen died and the three sons were left after them in the old palace by themselves. But there were two great big sons. They were always very good to the poor and there was great friendship between them. They were terrors for drinking and they used to all get drunk every day. There was one son David and he was a small little lad and he usen't to drink any But they got in the [latter?] end and they used to beat the poor from about the place and they used to give them nothing although they had any amount of gold But this day
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“Mr. John Black 75 Hacketstown remembers playing the following games.”
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Mr. John Black 75 Hacketstown remembers playing the following games.
Bringing in the Honey
Nine boys go outside and come in humming and stand before those in side and drop say a cipin from their