they have all died out. Another family on this farm was that of Phelim Devlin. The house now held by Mr D. M. Doyle was occupied by a man known as "Big Paddy Devlin" he was almost a giant, it is told that he once rode a cob in a local race, he got so far before his competitors that as he got so near the winning post, he jumped down and carried his pony passed the post. Mr Whitty succeeded him and carried on bacon curing and sending it on to Dublin. Wicklow bacon was then famous all over Ireland. This man was the last of the bacon curers.
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In Glenealy graveyard will be found a grave stone erected to a family named Cullen. After 1798 one of the Ballymacsimon Devlins was pursued by a yeoman, he took shelter behind this gravestone. The yeoman placed his muskets on the old ditch which stood, where is now the wall of Mr Pats Healy's garden. They fired at the stone one
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