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  1. Prominent People

    CBÉS 0887

    Page 035

    The 'Records' of John Mangan Kilmuckridge, are given next page.

  2. Kilincorley Graveyard

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    Kilincorley graveyard is an ancient one in Kilmuckridge parish It is round in shape + has a good wall of lime + stone separating it from the field on which it stands

  3. The Famine

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    Both J. Belvin and Stephen Furlong told me that Kilmuckridge village was practically wiped out by the Cholera that followed the famine

  4. The Moate Kilmuckridge

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    The Moate, Kilmuckridge
    Notes: J Carberry aged 70 years. Litterbeg, Kilmuckridge.
    This moate is an immense mound of earth, covering about an acre of ground. It is a very large lios, the largest I have ever seen or read about, and is situated in the townland of Kilmuckridge about 500 yds from the school.
    It is said to be over 60 ft in height and standing as it does on the apex of a hill, it commands a splendid view of the surrounding country. The sea, coast from Arklow on the North to Tuskar Rock in the South can be seen from this eminence.
    It is surrounded by a wall of clay almost as high as

  5. Local Fairs

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    There were three large "fairs" held in this district in the old times. They were:
    At Crosshue near Blackwater village
    At Kilmuckridge Hill near Kilmuckridge
    At Oulart

    These fairs were geat occasions of faction fights especially the ones at Crosshue and Oulart. Both sexes attended these fairs and then at evening they went to drink punch. The old people here tell me that young maidens who wern't invited into the public houses felt it very much.
    At Kilmuckridge fair A. Parker of Ballinadrissogue tells me he remembers tents erected on the fair green selling all kinds of intoxicants. Where this fair used be there is now at the head of what was once the fair green a rough stone cross. I have heard that justice was dispensed here around this cross but I could get no details.
    I have referred to these fairs as being scenes of faction fights: Crosshue was notorious in this. Two stalwarts

  6. Wee Folk in Kilmuckridge

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    Page 189

    I have this story personally from a very old resident of Kilmuckridge, who died about 10 yrs ago - at the ripe age of 90 yrs.
    His name was Patrick Walsh of Kilmuckridge, and an uncle to the famous Mangan brothers. He resided in the house at Kilmuckridge where Mr Murtagh Mangan now lives.
    Mr Walsh was a very sensible sober and rather well-read man.
    He never drank, and was most religious + God - fearing
    This is his tale of the Leprechaun or Luiricín (Pron loora-keen) as he called it.
    He and the other three or four men who worked at his place used generally retire to a barn for a yarn or a smoke after

  7. Hidden Gold

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    Page 300

    tied to them, he came out with the water, and she sent him back with the glass. When he came out again, she said to him, "Poor I found you, poor I leave you but one of yours will get it yet". It is believed that other people saw her since.
    Betty Ryan, Ballinlow, Kilmuckridge, Gorey.
    Story obtained from Mr P Ryan, Newtown, Kilmuckridge, Gorey.

  8. Kilmuckridge District and '98

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    Kilmuckridge District in '98
    Name: Anna Murphy, age 12
    Ballymacsimon, Kilmuckridge.
    The O'Briens of Tinnaberna, the O'Connors of Ballinamona, and Raymond FitzSimons of Christnaston all fought at Oulart Hill, Enniscorthy.

  9. Some Burnings in the Troubled Times in Kilmuckridge District

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    Name: J Carberry, aged 70.
    Litterbeg, Kilmuckridge.
    Some Burnings in the Troubled Times in Kilmuckridge district
    The night before the Truce was signed, the fine Coastguard Station at Morriscastle was burned flat, so also the same night were destroyed the local Police (RIC) Barrack and Col Bryan's place at Upton (Upton House).

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    “An old woman named...”

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    Notes from Lizzie Dempsey, aged 13 years, Killincooley, Kilmuckridge.

    An old woman named Mrs Dunphy used to spin thread with a wooden spinning wheel.
    From the thread so made she used to knit stockings, which it is stated used to last for over two years.
    She used also to spin flax and sell it over to a man named James Dunne in Duck Lane (a townland of Kilmuckridge) to have it used to be made into cloth for blankets and coats.

  11. A Secret Cure for Rush of Blood

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    Note from Mr Boggan, Kilmuckridge, aged 30 -
    There is a man living in this district who it is said can cure a "Rush of blood" by saying some secret prayer or incantation.
    He will not divulge the nature of this prayer, but there is this "evidence" of a man who told me of a cure this man carried out on his mother.
    The name of the man who can cure this rush of blood is Mr Michael Hamilton of Ballygarron, Kilmuckridge, aged about 55 yrs.

  12. Fairy Forts

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    There is a ratheen on the farm of Mr Kehoe, Newtown, Kilmuckridge. It is said that it was built during the time of the Danes + there is a woman seen coming out of the adjoining field and entering the

  13. Wreck of the Lydia 1860

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    Narrator Mr John Carberry aged 70 years. Litterbeg, Kilmuckridge
    Wreck of the Lydia or Liddy 1860
    This was a merchant man of one 5000 Tons. She had left Liverpool and had came down channel as far as Ballinamona on her way to Montevideo. when she ran ashore. Ballinamona is about 2 miles to the South of Kilmuckridge, and the coast there is very smooth / with steep marly cliffs on the shore side.
    Outside about 8 or 9 miles runs the treacherous Blackwater Bank the grave of many a merchant Sailor in the old days.
    She carried a general

  14. Some Feats of the Ford

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    Another man of Fame in the athletic world was WILLIAM O'CONNOR died about yrs ago. He was an "all Ireland" man on "the track" or "on his feet". Wm O'Connor lived and died at Tinnaberna Kilmuckridge, but he died at an early age.

  15. Henry Dunphy's Mill and a '98 Connection

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    From Henry Dunphy, Kilmuckridge Mill

    In the old mill which still stands at the foot of Kilmuckridge hill it is said that there is an old oaken beam which was brought from Wexford bridge and from which several of the Wexford Insurgents of 98 (including the leader Captain Bagenal Harvey) were hanged.
    The beam is still in the mill and is quite sound, so sound that a nail cannot be driven into it.

    also from Notes from
    Anna Murphy
    Ballymacsimon

  16. Wreck of the A.Z.

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    Notes from Mr, Syl, O'Brien, Upton, Morriscastle, Kilmuckridge
    Wreck of the 'A.Z.'
    This was an America ship It was struggling & floundering off the Blackwater Bank which lies right off shore here at Kilmuckridge, when it was sighted by some of the local fisherman.
    Tom Bow, J. Fortune, M Rossiter and M. Leary. They boarded a small fishing craft to try get help to her and to get her off the Bank. They made their ways through very dangerous seas and boarded the sinking vessel. They actually succeeded in getting her afloat again. The Captain was heavenly under the influence of booze and was heavenly disliked by all his crew.

  17. The Local Forge

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    The Local Forge. June 28th, 1938.
    There are three forges in the parish. The smiths are Mr Michael Dempsey, Mr Josephy Quinsey and Mr Thomas Dempsey. The Dempseys have been smiths for a great many years but the Quinseys have not. Mr Michael Dempsey's is in Ballinastraw and the others are in Kilmuckridge. The one in Ballinastraw is on the roadside and the two in Kilmuckridge are on the street. The three forges are made of stones and the Dempsey's forge has iron roofs and Quinseys has a slated roof. There are two half doors on Dempsey's of Ballinastraw. There is one fireplace in them. There is a long handle on the bellows to pull up and down to blow the fire. The smith uses a hammer and a sledge, anvil, a pincers, a file, and a knife in his work. He shoes horses and asses. He makes harrows. Binding car wheels is done outside the door. It is said that whoever the sparks fly to they would get money.
    Mary Doyle, Ballyrea, Wells, Monamolin, Gorey.

  18. Prominent People

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    Thus we reach the end of an only two short review on John Mangan whose name will certainly be remembered in his native county.
    His feats will long adorn our athletic chronicles for we must now look, with awe upon the deeds of the Kilmuckridge giant whose kindly, genial unobtrusive nature was the passport which secured him the affection + esteem of his contemporaries + neighbours of his own time + the admiration + memory of those that came after him.
    Above from Notes + Cuttings supplied by Mr Murtagh Mangan, aged 59 yrs.
    Kilmuckridge
    at present living at K'ridge
    Decr. 1938.

  19. Esmond Kyne of '98 Fame

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    Name: Fr Wheeler, CC Kilmuckridge, age 49
    Edmond Kyne of '98 Fame
    Edmond Kyne was a Rebel Leader & Captain in the '98 struggle for independence. He was the youngest son of Howard Kyne Esq of Mount Howard in the parish of Kilmuckridge, Co Wexford.
    He was wounded at the Battle of Arklow where his artificial arm and part of his shoulder were shot away.
    He was charge of the artillery at the Battle of Arklow. He was an independent gentleman of means.
    He was executed with several other leaders on the bridge at Wexford and his body was thrown into the river Slaney.

  20. Some Ghost Stories

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    Here is a local instance of present day belief in the "wee folk" who is supposed to have actually spirited away a grown up man and left him high and dry almost ten miles from home in the spot where he was "whisked" away from, one wintry night at nine oclock.
    This yarn is vouched for by a very elderly sensible farmer of the district and by a strange coincidence, just as he was relating this seemingly unbelievable story to me in my parlour here at Kilmuckridge, who should come in but a neighbour of the man who was suddenly "whisked off"