School: Coone, Leighlinbridge (roll number 5713)

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1. Tithe War (continued)

   

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   window, on to the street. This turn of events knocked all the courage out of the Protestants, who did not offer any resistance afterwards. The blood of the peasants was up, and they stood all day in the Square, shouting defiance at the Protestants, and daring them to come out and fight. The challenge was not accepted, and the disgusted Coone men marched home in the evening, disappointed, but victors at least in a moral sense. The system of tithes was unostentatiously dropped after this affray, as it was feared that if the ire of the Cooners was again roused that they would create more disturbance.

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2. The Ringing of Muckalee Bell

   

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   It is the common belief in this neighbourhood that it is terribly unlucky to ring a chapel bell without reason. About 60 or 70 years ago there men in Muckalee were coming home from a dance. Their road lay by the chapel, and talk turned on the superstition about the bell. One of them said he would ring the bell if the others did likewise. They agreed, and going in to the yard, each rang the bell. The immediately hurried home, arranging to meet on the next day. The following morning one of them got a paralytic stroke, another could not move his head on his shoulders, while the third could not move his legs. They remained deformed to the end of their days. (One of them was a man named Meaney).

   

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