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“During the Penal Days there was a very cruel enemy of the Catholics living in Manorhamilton.”
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Mrs Ellen Parkes
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“Sir Frederick Hamilton and his men of Manorhamilton went to play havoc and slaughter among the people of Sligo one day.”
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Mrs Ellen Parkes
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“Long ago there was a man and his son living at the back of Benbo, a mountain overlooking Glencar.”
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Mrs Mary Connolly
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“Years ago there was a spring well outside of Sligo”
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Mrs Ellen Parkes
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“There is a cave or hole in Gurteen, Manorhamilton, Co Leitrim on the Gurteen mountains and it is known as "Teampail Teichric”
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Patrick Clancy
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“There was once a man called Cormac Mac Sharry (Reawóg) living in Largy, Killasnett, County Leitrim.”
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Michael Mac Ternan
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“There was a man living in Glencar one time and he dreamt if he was beyond on London Bridge he would get a pot of gold.”
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Mrs Fitzgerald
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“During the Penal Days when the Catholics were forbidden to practise their religion, Tiernan O'Rourke and his wife were living in Dromahair Castle...”
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Molly Mac Ternan
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“St Patrick was one day passing through County Leitrim and he came as far as Bunduff, a little river in North Leitrim.”
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Michael Mac Ternan
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“Long ago there lived a man in Glencar called Páidin Ó Laidhe and his son Sean, adjacent to the townland then called Five Pound Land, now called Castletown.”
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Martin Devaney, Teresa Mac Ternan
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“Once upon a time a bear met a fox on the road, carrying in his mouth several fishes.”
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Mary Alice Mac Ternan, Patrick Mac Cann
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“One time a little girl played a trick in the name of the devil.”
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Mary Alice Mac Ternan, Patrick Mac Cann
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“One time a boy was lodged in a country house.”
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Mary Alice Mac Ternan, Patrick Mac Cann
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“Once upon a time there lived a man in a small thatched house in Grange, Co. Sligo.”
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Michael Mac Ternan
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“One fine Sunday a crowd of people gathered together at a crossroads and they began to dance.”
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Michael Mac Ternan
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“One time a man was going to the bog for a creel of turf.”
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Michael Mac Ternan
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“One time a man named Tom came to Manorhamilton with a pound to buy a bag of flour.”
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Michael Mac Ternan
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“One time a girl went washing to a lake and she saw a nest of 'Dourcús.”
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Mrs Mary Connolly
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“One time a farmer called John Hegarty was in search of a servant boy.”
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Delia Mac Ternan, Patrick Mac Cann
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“On the lands of William Cullen, in the townland of Gortagregory, in the parish of Killasnett and in the barony of Rossclogher there is a rock of gold.”
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