School: Killyfargy
- Location:
- Killyfargy, Co. Monaghan
- Teacher: B. Ó Mórdha
Archival Reference
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0947, Page 095
Image and data © National Folklore Collection, UCD.
See copyright details.
DownloadOpen data
Available under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
- XML School: Killyfargy
- XML Page 095
- XML “Battle of Ballinehinch”
- XML (no title)
- XML “The Family of Cullough Mac Mahon of Rockfield - Parish of Currin”
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
- (continued from previous page)to the Blessed Virgin. The rest were Presbyterians.
(no title)
“All of the preceding traditions, PP.s.87-95, were written down by...”
“All of the preceding traditions, PP.s.87-95, were written down by Michael Moore from the dictation of Peter Mc Mahon of Comber, Clines, Co. Monaghan on the evening of 21st June 1938. The narrator who lives now by himself and is aged about a hundred years is an ex-sergeant of the R.I.C. and is resigned from force for about fifty-five or sixty years. He is said to have first introduced waltzing at the county dances when he came home on holidays in the long ago. He was a fine dancer and athlete. His family came from [?] and he claims to be the last of the Mac Mahons of Dartry. - The Cullough is said to have had eight daughters and three sons. Two of the sons became priests and later bishops. One of them went to Connacht and the other to the south of Ireland. Many of his daughters married Protestants.
One of them married a man called Crowe and as a dowry Cullough gave to Crowe the townland of Dunsrim. The Crowes later on lost it and a Presbyterian family got it who though they were Presbyterians were great rebels. There were good soldiers.(continues on next page)
