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  1. The Graveyard at Toem

    CBÉS 0542

    Page 187

    The Graveyard at Toem.
    The Graveyard is situated a mile or so from Cappawhite. There are two Graveyards in the neighbourhood one in Toem in this parish and one in Donohill. The Graveyard in Toem is situated in the village of Toem. It is still in use. The Graveyard in Donohill is also used. The Graveyard in Toem is long and square and the graveyard in Donohill is round. There is a ruin in Toem of a Protestant Church that was there years ago. The Monastery of the Augustinian monks was destroyed by the English. The Graveyard in Toem is very old. There are very old tombstones there but they cannot be read on account of the moss. The word Toem or Tuaim means a burial ground. There

  2. Wells

    CBÉS 0519

    Page 257

    It is said that there was to be found near the bridge of Toem under a bush called Skagh-minoge a holy well and two ballaun stones which "removed" owing to an act of desecration. The well may now be seen by the side of the road leading down to Toem from the hills.in the yard of a house close by is one of the stones, it contains a well-cut oval ballaun measuring 15 x 15 inches. The other stone rises some distance off in the fields, and may easily be noticed from the upper road to Doon. It is a large irregular pudding-stone, containing three ballauns, two large and one small. Within living memory mounds used to be made here while fragments of clothing used to be suspended as votive offerings from the brains and bushes that grew there.
    TOEM is in Co.Tipperary

  3. My Home District

    CBÉS 0540

    Page 350

    The name of my district is Toem.
    The population being 16 families and the amount of people being seventy. There are 14 slated houses and 2 thatched. There are but very few over the seventy years but they still know a good deal of folklore about their own district.
    Most of the people are very industrious. The chief industry being dairy farming.
    Mr. McDonnell of Toem is supposed to be the second cleverest man in Ireland.

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    “One night as a man by the name of John O'Dwyer was coming home...”

    CBÉS 0542

    Page 117

    One night as a man by the name of John O Dwyer was coming home from Toem he was passing Renehan’s fort he saw a man walking into the Fort then he disappeared then he went to the fort where he saw the man again he came out of the fort an went across the field and out on the road then he went into Butler’s fort and when he was going up the road he saw saw lights in the fort

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    “Once upon a time as a man was coming from Tipperary...”

    CBÉS 0542

    Page 124

    Once upon a time as a man was coming from Tipperary and as he was passing Toem grave-yard he saw a priest and he asked him could he answer mass he said he could. He went in and answered mass and when he had mass answered the the priest said I will pray for you in heaven and then he disappeared.
    Date of occurance 1901

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    “One night as a man was going to Limerick with pigs...”

    CBÉS 0542

    Page 141

    (an other) road. He never passed Toem castle after.
    Date of occurrence 1900.

  7. Fairy Forts

    CBÉS 0542

    Page 225

    There are two forts down in Toem. There is a path across the road to them. The old people say that if you walked across the path at twelve o clock at night you would not come back alive. The noise of cups and saucers were heard in one of them. The other one is called Knock Anglesea after the man who built the road between Cappawhite and Hollyford. The two forts are within view of each other. They are circular in shape. There is a fort down in Greenfields and the owner of the field cut down the field and tilled it and cut the trees and all his cattle died.

  8. My Home District

    CBÉS 0540

    Page 349

    Carnahallia - Doon - Clanwilliam
    Flax (?) Quarter or fourth division of the Cliff
    Once said to belong to the Parish of Cappawhite or to parish of Toem (now nonexistent)
    Number of families in townland - Sixteen
    Number of people in townland - Seventy-two
    Family name most common - Ryan
    Seven thatched houses - eight slated
    One cement roof - flat
    Toem - sixteen families - seventy eight people
    Ten (?) Thatched - Fourteen Slated
    Kilbeg - Nine families - 42 people
    Two thatched - Seven Slated
    Toomaline - Nine families - Thirty Seven people
    All Slated
    Ballyhane (?) - Seven families - 25 people
    Two Thatched - four Slated - one galvanised Iron

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    “One night as a man and woman were coming home from a friend's house...”

    CBÉS 0542

    Page 005

    Date of occurrence 1894.
    One night as a man and woman were coming home from a friend's house they heard music in a field near Toem. They gave no heed to it and continued their journey.
    When they came to Shana Clog castle they saw on the road a crowd of people dancing on the road.
    There was so many of them there that the man and woman could not pass. They waited for a while and all the people disappeared and the man and woman went home. The man and woman were never out late at night after that.

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    “One night as a man was going to Limerick with pigs...”

    CBÉS 0542

    Page 140

    One night as a man was going to Limerick with pigs as he was passing Toem castle the pigs jumped out from the wagon and went into the castle.
    The man followed them and went into the castle after them and when he went in the pis were hanging on the wall dead.
    He tried to bring them down and two giants (walking) walked up to him and said if you don’t go away quick we will kill yourself.
    The man ran home in great fright and when he was going in his own gate the pigs were in the wagon alive. He turned around and went to Limerick an other

  11. The Graveyard at Toem

    CBÉS 0542

    Page 188

    are names I got on tombstones in Toem.
    1. Denis Ryan
    Cappagh
    1764
    2. Vere Hunt
    Cappagh House
    1918
    3. Thomas Ryan
    Kilmore
    1884
    4. Hugh Lloyd
    Ballyhane
    1891
    5. This is a Verse I got on a tombstone in Toem.
    Remember man as you pass by
    As you are now so once was I
    As I am now so will you be
    Remember man Eternity
    Michael Ryan
    1834
    6. Stop and consider

  12. Local Place Names

    CBÉS 0542

    Page 226

    Outside Limerick Street there is a hill called Dawson’s Hill because people named Dawson lived there. About a mile outside Cappawhite on the Doon Road there is a little hill which is called Cnocán na bFear which means the little hill of the men because Patrick Sarsfield and his soldiers encamped there. There was an Irish soldier named O’Sullivan bere He stopped at Ironmills on his way to Leitrim. The place is still called Rath-Uí Bhéara.
    Cappawhite is so called because it was chiefly occupied by the family of the Whites. Toem is so called because it is a very old graveyard. There is a mass

  13. Graveyards

    CBÉS 0577

    Page 123

    There is an old graveyard in Donohill. The ruins of an old Church are to be seen in the centre of it. It is believed that a party of monks occupied this Church at the time of the Norman Invasion.
    In the centre of Toem graveyard is a round tower about a hundred feet high.
    In Augacrewe graveyard are the ruins of an early Christian Church. It is now closed as a burying ground.
    In Golden graveyard are the remains of an old Abbey. William de Burgh and his son Walter are buried there.