Tonlagee. They brought food and left it near the shed, so that he would get it, and he got better of the fever. A woman named Mrs. Mcgovern who lived in Tonlagee died from fever. The potatoes decayed in the ground. There were good potatoes the following year. A man came to Pat Dolan's house, Tonlagee in the famine time and he brought the stalks of potatoes with him. He planted them and he had good potatoes the following year. During the famine time, there lived a woman named Mrs. Gott in the townland of Corratillon.
She went out and begged food for herself and her family. A great number of people lived in this locality before the famine, but, they went

The Tonlagee Cattle Drive
The Tonlagee farm was the cause of the first cattle drive in Ireland. It is about 1/4 of a mile from my house.
A Mr Phibbs from Tulsk owned a farm of land in Tonlagee which was first up for public sale on the 13th June 1906.
The tenants around Tonlagee claimed that the land should be purchased on their behalf.
A Mr Conway from Castlerea attended the sale but was and bid for the land on behalf of the tenants.
He was out-bid by Mr Beirne for Ballinasloe at the sum of 1290. But still the tenants agitated for the land with the result that until the 6th November Mr Beirne left the land unstocked.
On that date he purchased a number of cattle at a fair in Co Mayo which he railed to Donamon station and ordered the herd to take them to his farm.
They were

There is the track of a horse's hoofs in Tonlagee. This horse was a water horse and lived in the Shadlough. A man by the name of Genoy caught him one evening when he was returning to the lake. He trained him and he turned out to be the best horse known in the country. The only trouble was that his legs had to be greased with a firkin of butter every day.

Haunted Place.
In the village of Tonlagee there lived a man named Groghan, He was in the habit of going rambling to a neighbour;s house named Cusack. he met with a ghost one night.
The ghost threw him a challenge to fight him. The fight was to

A man called Thomas MacGovern (deceased) who lived in Tonlagee, Bawnboy, Co. Cavan, and a few other men were once working with a landlord.
They got no food, and they were hungry.One man went to a shop for a loaf of bread for them to eat. When he came back he and the other men went into the house to eat it. While they were eating it, the landlord came in with a gun, and ordered them out, and if they refused, he would shoot them.Stories like this are common of landlords not giving food to their employees.

1) Hugh McGovern, of Creagh, Corlough, who was on a holiday to Bundoran dreamt that he saw his son being killed by a kick from a cow. When he arose next morning he set out for home on foot and found that what he had dreamt was true. He arrived back in Bundoran before sunset that same evening. He died about 55 years ago.
2) When her son had left for America against her wishes Mrs Tom McGovern, Tonlagee, Bawnboy, set out for Dublin on foot about 6.a.m. the morning after his departure in the hope of bringing him back. She succeeded in finding him but failed to persuade him to return. She arrived home the following having walked all the way from Dublin and carried her load of sorrow. (It is about ninety years ago since this happened)Incidentally, this woman had a habit of saying the Rosary every evening while she walked beside a fence near her home. One evening she returned after a very short while - very much excited, and told that she had just seen "a great lady dressed in white." She sat down beside her spinning wheel and from that moment she never spoke another word. In less than a week she was dead

Candle-Making: Candles were made in this district about forty years ago, but the craft is discontinued now. Candles were made in every house in the district and oil lamps or wax candles were not used at all.
This is the method by which the candles were made. A number of tall strong rushes were procured and peeled by hand, then they were covered with melted fat, and they were left to dry. When they were throughly dry, they were used.
They were put in an article called a sconce which was made of iron. Some of these sconces have been unearthed by men digging locally.Basket-Making: Several men in this district are famous as basket makers. Mr. John Kelly, of Tonlagee, Bawnboy, Co. Cavan, makes Lossets. Lossets were used very extensively in this

There are many fields, streams, hollows etc, in this district which have names.
Some of them are named from their natural characteristics or from important incidents which took place in them. The following is a story common in this district. Long ago, when the early colonists came into this country, they had a big battle on the land now owned by Mr. Francis McGovern, Tonlagee, Corlough, Bawnboy, Co. Cavan. The field in which one army pitched their campaign is now called Cnocán na gCampa which means
'' The little hill of the campus. ''
It is a pretty field with grass much greener than that in the neighbouring fields.
Beside it, is the field where the battle was fought.
It is a grey field covered with large stones which are said to be monuments to the

accompanied for the R.I.C. Sergeants from Rockfield and the Four-Mile-House. On their way to Tonlagee they were met at Lisagallon cross by a number of men and boys.
The R.I.C. ordered them let the cattle pass. One of the cowd said "No we will not" and all in great excitement followed him and drove the cattle in all directions.
The next day the police gathered all the cattle and from them on to the farm and kept guard on them for a considerable length of time.
All was quiet then until the morning of the 17th November. Nine of the cattle drivers were arrested. Their names were - J. Carlos, J Faly, J Hayden, D. and J Coney, C Mullany C. HUnt J Nanton.
They were brought before the R. M. in Roscommon and were serinaded for trial to Sligo in December.
The Sligo jury disagreed and they were remanded for trial on

There was a tailor in the townland of Leitra, he went to the houses and he made the clothes, he had no machine, this man's name was Hugh Darcy.
He lived about fifty years ago
There was a shoemaker, he lived in Corraholia, he made very strong shoes, and the people liked his work well. His name was John McGovern he lived about twenty years ago.
There lived a weaver in Tonlagee about fifty years ago, his name was Patrick Dolan.
He wove linen and wool.
Candles were made up to about fifty years ago. The candle was a dried rush dipped in grease or tallow. The candlestick was generally a wooden stick

Páirc, '' '
' The Little Meadow, ''
'' The House Field, ''
'' The Long Moss Field '' and
'' The Big Field. ''Mr Peter McGovern, Knockmore, Bawnboy, Co. Cavan, owns a field called, '' The Malaidh Buidhe, ''
which means '' The Yellow Brow. ''
Mr. Peter McGovern, Teeboy, Bawnboy, Co. Cavan, owns a field called '' the Guirtín, which means,
'' The little tillage field ''.Mr. Hugh Smith, Teeboy, Bawnboy, Co. Cavan has a field called
'' The Currach '' which means
boggy or soft ground.
Mr. Pat Devine, Muineal, Bawnboy, Co. Cavan, has a field called
'' The Crimay '' the meaning of which is not known.
Mr. John Darcy, Teeboy, Bawnboy, Co. Cavan, owns a field in Muineal called '' Paratrairly '' the meaning of which is not known.
A field which Mr. Hugh McGovern, Tonlagee, Bawnboy, owns, is called
'' Comhgar an Bhóthair '' which means
'' Near the Road. '' The