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  1. Kells in Pagan Times

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    The history of Kells dates back to about 800 or 900 BC. The foundations of the towns were laid by Fiacha a grandson of Ollamh Fodla who was King of Meath about 1000 year BC and was buried at Loughcrew near Oldcastle.
    Fiacha built his dam down near the river Blackwater and called the place 'Dún Cuile Scruit Breana' 'The ford at the head of the polluted stream'.
    Queen Maeve of Connaught and her husband Ailill passed through Kells on their way to the north. They encamped for the night at Áth Dhá Lorg, a ford on the Blackwater. Maudlin Bridge spans the river at this point now. Two tracks or roads from the ford, one to the north and the other to the east. it was when hunting in the woods in Kilmainham that Cormac Mac Art first met

  2. The Rose

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    There is a lake a few miles fom Kilskyre. It ies in a valley near Loughcrew, and goes by the name of Lough Ruad.
    The water when risen from the lake cures an absess on the body called the rose, which resembles a boil. The pecular coincidence is that a gentleman has to rise the water for a lady when affected and lady for a gentleman and the peculiar thing of all is that you are strictly forbidden not to look behind at the lake after rising the water. The moment the water is lifted the effected person at home gets immediate relief. It is locally known as a perfect cure.
    Cures continued on page 94

  3. (gan teideal)

    “During the Cromwellian regime in Ireland, Cromwell and his brutal soldiers did their best to put an end to the celebration of Mass.”

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    house ran the risk of having the whole property conficated, and sometimes either he himself or some member of his family were sent to slavery to the Barbadoes. Dispite all this the Irish people were willing to suffer anything that they might not be deprived of the Mass. During these times a priest was sheltered in Baltrasna Castle Co. Meath where the people attended to hear Mass. But the spies were busy and a raid was made on the Castle
    So bravely did the people risist that the priest was got saftly away with the help of a nobleman named Barnwall. This gentleman paid the penalty. He was arrested, his goods seized and divided among the soldiers he himself being banished into exile. After this the priest not wishing to expose his friends to such hard-ships sough refuge in the woods and mountains. There is a cave in Loughcrew where he is believed to have hidden for more than a year, leaving it only at dead of night in all weathers, dressed in rough garments to offer Mass in an appointed place.

  4. Cromwell

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    Cromwell
    Cromwell marched from Loughcrew to Athboy. On his way he went to Ballinlough castle. There was a family of Nugents liviing in the castle. Cromwell put them out and gave the castle to one of his soldiers. When Cromwell and his soldiers were gone Nugent got two guns. One he gave to the soldier and the other he kept himself. When he was handing the gun to the soldier he said "fight for the castle". The soldier got afraid and he followed Cromwell and told him. Cromwell said "Do without it when you were not manly enough to fight for it". That is why Nugen

  5. Ainmneacha na bPáirceanna

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    Cúlamóna Crossdrum Co. Meath.
    Mullach Loughcrew Co. Meath.
    Seancill Summerbank Co. Meath.
    Pollmór Summerbank Co. Meath.
    An Dúnán Newcastle Co. Meath.
    Béal na hInní Crossdrum Co. Meath.
    Carraig Mór Newcasle Co. Meath.
    Caldra Ballinvalley Co. Meath.
    Gearaí Dubha Gallmoystown Co. Meath.
    Cnoch a Mhadra Loughcrew Co. Meath.
    Polldubh Dromone Co. Meath.
    Stathan, Summerbank Co. Meath.
    Méirnín Summerbank Co. Meath.
    Gleann Fraoch Newcastle Co. Meath.
    Cruacha mílse Newcastle Co. Meath.
    Tobar i Leamhna Knocklough Co. Meath.
    Lochán Dromone Co. Meath.
    Slang Tubride Co. Meath.
    Loch Ruas Knocklough Co. Meath.

  6. The Cross at Cortown

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    and he lost his eyesight and he saw all the cities of the world When he got home he got back his eyesight.
    When Cromwell was in Ireland he built great protection for his people. In Ballinvalley there are many walls which he had built. In Cortown there is a cross and people do not know what it is really for. The writing is blotted off it so it is hard to know what it is for. Old people that there one day a priest was on the Loughcrew Hills. Cromwell and his followers came that way. When the priest saw him coming he went towards Cortown. They followed him, and when he came to the place where the cross now is they shot him. People say that is why the cross is there.

  7. The Local Forge

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    The Local Forge
    Written by Molly fagan, Gortloney 1-3-'38
    There is one forge in this parish. The smith's name is Kit Sheridan. He lives in Dromone. The forge is situated in Dromone in the parish of Moylough. The forge is a fairly big shed. His forge has a slated roof there is one window on it, one fire-place and a square. There is no cross-roads near his forge. He shoes wheels of carts and he shoes horses. The tools he uses are:- hammer, vice, wrenches, an anvil and a pincers and other things. He makes farm implements, such as harrows, ploughs, and reaping machines and other things. It is said that the forge water cures warts. There is another forge in Loughcrew but I know not what sort it is.

  8. The Old Graveyards

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    and there are some beautiful tombstones in it. One of the graveyards of Loughcrew is very old too, and contains the ruins of an old Catholic chapel, in which Blessed Oliver Plunkett served mass, when a boy. In the penal days the chalice used to be hidden there. The stones is partly broken now, but, the cavity is plain to be seen. There are some old ivy covered trees about it. There are also some interesting story connected with this graveyard. About two hundred years ago, there was rich lady who was on a visit in Naper's. She took suddenly ill and died. Her last request was to have all her jewellery buried with her. They did as she told them and all her jewellery was put in the coffin with her. The night after she was buried the servant went to the tomb to get the jewellery. When he went to the tomb he started to take the ring off her finger but could not succeed. He took out his pen-knife and cut off her finger when she sat up and the boy ran as fast as he could. Mrs Jones walked out after the groom and she lived several years after.

  9. The Landlord

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    The Landlord
    Long ago there were a few landlords in every county but there are very few of them left now. There is only one landlord left in this district and his name is Captain Naper and he lives in Loughcrew Oldcastle and he is the landlord over the town of Oldcastle the people has to pay him the rent. There was landlord in Co Westmeath and his name was Smith, and he lived in Barbarvillia and Barbarvillia is between Collinstown and Delvin. He was a bad man and watched every chance he could to put people out of their homes. There was an other landlord in Co. Westmeath and his name was Father Stonhaugh. One night and he coming home from his rounds he was shot on the top of Knockshebán hill, for he was a very bad man, and at the time he was shot

  10. The Landlord

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    People often resented this collection. There were never any battles fought on account of these collections.
    O'Reilly had seven daughters and when he died a man named O'Connor married one of his daughters and lived in Baltrasna House and was landlord of Baltrasna for a few years but after he died there was no other landlord in Baltrasna. A man named Murdock lives in Baltrasna House now. There was another landlord who lived in Crossdrum House he was landlord of Crossdrum. He was called "the terror Rawdrum" he was a terrible bad man he used to put all his tenants out of their houses and let them die of hunger and starvation as often as he pleased. My father always lived where we are living now and his father and mother before him. We have not to pay any rent for our house and only very little rates. My mother lived in Moylough Oldcastle Co Meath. Captain Naper was the landlord of Moylough at that time he was a good landlord and his son lives in Loughcrew now

  11. Hidden Treasure

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    For a long time afterwards queer noises were heard and green lights seen flashing here and there on the hills at night.
    From that time on no-one else tried to disturb the peace on the hills and these omens disappeared.
    Eileen Jenkins, Loughcrew School, Oldcastle. The subject matter was supplied by my Father.

  12. Travelling Folk

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    She told me I would live a long and happy life and a lot of other things.
    The travelling folk, who come round here with caravans, usually camp for a night a two, along Summerbank road, a narrow road that winds up through the Loughcrew hills. There they have firing from the woods and a well of clear spring water near to fill the smoke blackened cans and kettle.
    Once an old man came to our house for a grain of tea. He had a little girl in the cart with him and she was crying, I asked the old man what was wrong with her and he said "Oh the poor little girl she wants a doll and I don't know where to get one for her," so I gave her an old doll and she was delighted and she thanked me very much.

  13. Hidden Treasure

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    Hidden Treasure
    Told by Michael Muldoon age 88 years
    Moate, Oldcastle, Co. Meath
    There is a fort in Loughcrew. When it snows the snow never lies on that particular spot. There is supposed to be a silver rod worth a great deal of money

  14. In the Penal Times

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    In Killallon graveyard there are some of the ruins of an old chapel, on the opposite side of the road there are ruins of a castle. Some years ago when men were digging a grave in the church yard they came upon an underground passage leading from the castle. It is supposed that the passage was used for people to come under the ground to Mass. It is said that the castle was owned by a white lady. A little further on in the fields to the right there is a hill called Cruachóna. It was on that hill that Cromwell fixed his cannon to blow up the White Lady's castle. About eight perches away from Cruacóna there is a cave. There are many underground passages leading from it, some facing the church and castle and others to the Loughcrew Hills. If two people were walking along in the passages, they could hide on each other, by turning into the nooks in the passages. The cave is closed now with stones but it was opened some years ago by the antiquarian Society. They were afraid to go far into it as the air was very damp and foul.

    K. Molloy

  15. Local Ruins

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    There is a ruined castle in Causetown, near Athboy. It is about two hundred years old. It is situated in the townland of Causetown in the parish of Athboy.
    It is about one hundred yards from the main road, and is about thirty feet high. Cromwell is supposed to have battered it down by a cannon ball fired from the Hill of Ward. Stones and bits of masonry have fallen from it during recent years.
    The owners of the field once made an attempt to knock it, but he was stopped by the antiquarians. There are still three windows remaining. You can ascend to the top by an old clay and stone stairs. On a fine day the Loughcrew Hills may be seen from the top as plainly as if you were within a mile of them. There is a doorway facing the North, but it is nearly closed up with stones. The castle has no dungeon. There is no ruined church or monastery in the district.

  16. Martin the Poet

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    Long ago there was a man named Martin who lived at Millbrook near Loughcrew. At the age of thirteen this boy could hardly write his name. It is said that he slept on a fort and when he awoke he found beside him a sword, a bagpipes and a book, he picked up the book and from that time he know all languages, and he was a great scholar and a gifted poet.
    It is said that a priest and minister were arguing some point of religion as neither would give in they agreed that each would get a man to argue the point.
    The minister choose a very great learned nobleman, and the priest choose Martin. The time and place of meeting was arranged. The nobleman was first there but he had not long to wait till a shubby looking man dressed with a cord knee breeches and his old tristy swinging came into his presence. The great man thought he would have an easy victory by the look of his opponent. He said "Are you Martin?" "Yes I am" said Martin.

  17. The Lady and the Ring

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    Tradition says around Loughcrew that when the wife of one of the first Nappers was about to die she made her husband promise that he would leave her rings on her fingers, so the rings were not distributed. She was waked for the usual number of days then she was put into the coffin and buried.
    There was a greedy butler in Napper's at this time, and he said to himself, it is a great loss to see such valuable rings destroyed, at this he started out for the graveyard about mid-night with a spade and shovel to open the grave, and as the clay was soft he succeded in doing so, when he reached the coffin he unscrewed the lid, and seized the rings on the lady's finger, to pull them off but as her finger was swollen he could not do so, he took his pen-knife out of this pocket and began to cut off the finger but when the knife reached the bone the lady made a loud scream but not as big a one as the butler made. The butler made off terrified, and left the locality and was never seen again. The lady spent a lot of money to get him but as there were no newspapers she did not do so, not to punish

  18. The Loughcrew Hills, Oldcastle, Co. Meath

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    so high there was no danger of a sudden attack or taken unawares. About 40 years ago a story was told that a man and his dog were tending his sheep on the hills one day. The man ordered the dog to seek rats in one of the underground passages. The dog went in far and did not return. The owner of the dog maintain that he could hear the barking and wailing of the dog as he went along underground till on the farther side of Oldcastle next the townland of Castlecor. It is quite possible that Loughcrew-HIlls were the scene of many a bloody battle or attach and that these underground passages were a way of escape and safety for the chiefs, Kings and their followers is they were beaten in battle. In the vicinity of the hills there are many stone circles sometimes singly and in other places two and three together. There is also a large standing stone and many raths and moats or little highly raised hills. About the half-mile off is the remains of a great castle or "look out" on the hill of Moylough and in the middle of a very ancient

  19. The Loughcrew Hills, Oldcastle, Co. Meath

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    "Caileac Beara" jumped from one peak or hill to another with her apron full of stones and that she dropped a heap here and a heap there until she had at least three big heaps one on each hill. She ordered that her grave should be in one of those cairns, facing her beaten foes, to show that she was not afraid of them in death nor in life. There is a stone seat forming a chair which is said to be this hag's chair, but it is more likely to be the seat where the King of Tara sat when addressing his assembled people.
    Some old people maintain that Loughcrew Hills is the famous Teltown and the Queen Tailte and all the Kings of Ulster from Ollamh Fodla till about the year 50 AD are buried there. From the cairns there are many underground chambers open, large with large boulders or slabs of great size supporting the sides and roof. The entrances are large and lofty to that in case of attach the assembled crowds could move quickly and enter where it is thought they could retreat miles underground from their enemies until danger was past. As the hills were

  20. Ancient Monuments, Cairns and Raths at Loughcrew Hills, Oldcastle

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    and it is proposed to explore them next Summer. Old people tell us there are ancient ornaments and weapons and perhaps gold entombed in the caves.
    The hag's chair is to be seen and it is made of four slabs of stone weighing fifteen tons. The back of the chair is broken away now. On many stone slabs the ancient writing called "Ogham" is plainly visible. Other ancient stones are to be found on the hill-top mentioned, are Granite and quartz which are only found at Howth Head. This shows that they were brought to the Loughcrew hills.
    In the Penal days we are told the Priests took refuge in these caves and Mass was celebrated near by. The stone altar is still to be seen. Many circles of stones are also beside the hills where the wild swine was fed long ago. It is quite easy to reach the summit of the hills as a new road has been