1. dúchas.ie
  2. The Schools' Collection
  3. Ballinacree (B.)

School: Ballinacree (B.) (roll number 13965)

Location:
Ballynacree, Co. Meath
Teacher:
Pádraic Ó Connachtáin
Browse
Mode:
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0717, Page 163

Archival Reference

The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0717, Page 163

Image and data © National Folklore Collection, UCD.

See copyright details.

Download

Open data

Available under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)

  1. XML School: Ballinacree (B.)
  2. XML Page 163
  3. XML “Wade's Pot of Gold”
  4. XML “Webbs of Hilltown”

Note: We will soon deprecate our XML Application Programming Interface and a new, comprehensive JSON API will be made available. Keep an eye on our website for further details.

On this page

  2. Webbs of Hilltown

    Share Share Post
    Hilltown (Hilltown estate or house) was once Mac Dowell's a bad lot. There were eleven sons and one daughter in it. The sons were all wild and most of them died young.
    That time there were no sieves in mills and they had sifters a fine and a coarse one to sift the meal.
    A sifter maker named Webb came along and put up in HIlltown because there were a lot of young ash in it, and Mac Dowells gave him lodging in a barn. He got in with this lady and after a while made away with her. So there was a hunt with the brothers looking for Webb to shoot him, but they gave up
    (continues on next page)
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    History Edit
    Language
    English
    Location
    Hilltown, Co. Westmeath
    Collector
    Tomás Mac Síomóin
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Hilltown, Co. Westmeath
    Informant
    John Smyth
    Gender
    Male
    Age
    88
    Address
    Ballynacree, Co. Meath