was reduced to three.
It was not until recent years that hurling teams were organised in this parish, but there were some very good football teams here. Formerly, owing to the want of a regular playing pitch, the district was not favoured with many matches. There was, however , a very important football match played at Strylea , about a quarter of a mile from Fethard, on the northern side , in April 1901, between the old C.J. Kickhams , Mullinahone, and the Shamrocks, Clonmel, for the championship of the county. There were seventeen aside. Mullinahone picked their men from the parish, but Clonmel picked them from a wide area, two being local men namely, John Hayes, Barretts Gange and John O'Brien, Coolmoyne. Both teams were evenly matched , and people attended in thousands, to witness the game. Mullinahone won the match by two points, but Clonmel lodged an objectionagainst one of the Mullinahone players. The County Board of the G.A.A. ordered a replay , but Mullinahone refused to do

"Epidemic"In 1885, two years after the death of Father Hickey the parish priest of Mullinahone there was a terrible outbreak of Typhoid Fever in Mullinahone and the surrounding district. Father Hickey was taken to his native Doon, Co. Limerick to be buried, and the people of Mullinahone blamed this for the fever. Since then every Parish Priest has been buried in Mullinahone.Mary Gleeson, Kilvemnon.
Told by my grandfather, Richard Walsh, Mullinahone (aged 72 years - Tailor)

A man was setting potatoes outside Mullinahone, and the Curate of the district passed

Two places near Mullinahone are recorded as places where Mass was said in the Penal

1. The mill road leads from Mullinahone down to the mill.
2. The Church road leads from Mullinahone down to the old Church.
3. The New Line leads from Mullinahone to Cloneen and Fethard.
4. The Rocks Roads leads to Hilton and Ballylanigan.
5. The Callan road leads from Mullinahone to Callan.
6. The Modeshill road leads from Mullinahone to Modeshill.
7. The Ballydonnell road leads from Mullinahone to Ballingarry.
8. The Bog Road branches off the Callan Road at a place called 'The White Gate.' It runs through the bog to Poulacapple.

Mullinahone was a great centre for the sale of butter some seventy years ago. The market house in Killaghy Street is still standing. There was a famous cooper named Thomas Walsh who made the firkins and barrels. He lived at Ballydonnell, Mullinahone. Michael Byrne and his son John and later Dick Donovan were coopers who lived where John Doran of Chapel St. now resides. William Shea who lived in Ballyduggan was another cooper.

engaged in the boot-making industry. When Michael Norton died as his children were young the business was taken over by Lyons, their uncle, and the firm was then known by the name of Lyons-Norton.The Mullinahone boots were at this time in great demand. They were cheap and the quality was good. Men's boots were sold at 9/- per pair, and Ladies' at 5/6 and 6/- per pair. Buyers walked from Cashel and the surrounding country, from Bansha, Tipperary town, Urlingford, etc. for the Mullinahone boots, and in the month of October as many as fifty pairs were sometimes sold in half an hour. It is interesting to note that at this time Nortons paid for their leather in gold sovereigns.In later years the tanning of boots was abandoned in Mullinahone, and the leather for the uppers was purchased at Meyers, Clonmel, and still later at O'Callaghan's, Limerick. Pigs' hair was used in stitching the leather, a bundle of hairs being obtained for a penny at that time.

There are four roads in the village of Ballingarry: The well road from Ballingarry to Killenaule, the Callan road from Ballingarry to Callan, the Commons road from Ballingarry to the Commons, and the Mullinahone road from Ballingarry to Mullinahone. The new road from Jessfield gate out to Fitzpatrick's was made about twenty-five years ago. The old road going out at Tallis's bridge was closed then. The new-line road was made during the famine times. The by-roads are called Bosheens and boreens. The bosheen going up by Molloy's is called Molloy's bosheen. The oldest road is the "bosheenbee" going down by Boloughbee to Mohober. Sticks across rivers are called "coors" or "cumhar" in Irish. The local pastimes at the cross-roads are playing "pitch and toss" and skittles. There are several old roads or parts of them in the district. There is no account locally as to when they were made. The road called the "Mullinahone road" was probably part of an old road and such work was carried out on it during the Famine years to relieve distress in the neighbourhood. The workers were paid in yellow meal or at the rate of about fourpence a day. In those days this road crossed the King's river at a shallow part where the metal bridge now is.

As a drunkard was returning home from Mullinahone one night he met a priest who said to him, drunk again Johny, and the man answered, so am I Father.

In years gone by there was no bridge on the Mullinahone road, only stepping stones. One day when there was a funeral coming from Mullinahone to Drangan, and there was a flood in the river, the horse would not go through the river because it was too deep. So six men put the coffin on their shoulders and started to walk through the river. The water swept the coffin out of their hands and brought it down the river. The coffin hit the trunk of a tree and was badly broken. The corpse was swept away with the water. Lady Butler saw all that had happened so she got a bridge built there. It is now called Cahill's bridge. There is a stone on the bridge and the history of the bridge is written on it

The house in which Rev Father Mononey curate of Mullinahone lives in was a school. There were about 240 children going there.

1. From Boherboy (near Sliabh na mBan) to Mullinahone. It started at Drummond Bridge and came across Clonlahy farm and on through Gurteen into Delaney's of Ballycullen, then up the boreen to the road and from thence to Mullinahone.2. The old people of Beeverstown had a Mass Path from their homes on to the double ditch and out on the road outside the town. It is now closed up.3. From Ballylennon to Mullinahone through Finnane.4. Through Gleeson's avenue (Kilvemnon), out through Gleeson's quarry, then out through Cuddihy's quarry and on to the mountain road.5. From Gurteen to Boherby

A gran(d)aunt of Stasia Vaughan’s living in Fethard was coming to see one of her friends in Ballydavid, Mullinahone, who was dying. It was in the month of May and late at Night. At gurteen, about midway between Mullinahone and blaneen; near Kickham’s tree she met a huntsman who suddenly disappeared over the ditch. She was telling her friends afterwards of the huntsman she had seen so late at night and at an unusual time of the year. Somebody however, remarked that she had seen the ghost rider, who had been a collector of tithes and was killed by the people.

Charles Kickham was born in Mullinahone in the year 1828. He was a novelist a poet and above all a patriot.
He was in jail for some time and while there he wrote "Sally Kavanagh" and "Rory of the Hills". His best book is "The Homes of Tipperary" written in the year 1879. It is said he was the only poet in his family. He died and was buried in Mullinahone.

The Care of Feet
Very few people go bare footed now because it is wearing out of fashion. Children used to go barefooted up to a couple of years ago in Summer. It is said the water used during washing should be thrown out because it is said it is not lucky to have it in the house. Clogs were worn very commonly in former times. They used walk to Mullinahone bare footed for to get a pair of clogs and carry them home under their arms because they used be ashamed to wear them.The clogs used be made in Mullinahone.

Dick St John of the Mountain was a noted walker and runner who won many prizes in the sports field. He often passed through Mullinahone at 8 o'clock A.M. on a ten mile tour when in training. His usual route was by Mullinahone and Kilbride, and he usually wore togs when on this route. His was implicated in a cattle raid and he ran away to America about fifty years ago and was never heard of since.About sixty years ago John Norton, Fethard St (grandfather of present John Norton) and Harry St John of Ninemilehouse who served his time with him often walked to Cork and back again for leather.About a hundred yers ago Maurice O'Brien of Clonagoose - a cattle dealer - often walked to Waterford and Dungarvan to fairs.

When Charles Kickham's house in Fethard Street became vacant Nortons moved into it and carried on the boot-making industry there. The industry seems to have been in a flourishing condition at this time as people can rememer seing both sides of Fethard St lined with rolls of leather.During the world war (1914 - 1918) the trade began to decline. Leather became so dear that the price of boots went up to 33/- and 35/- per pair. People began to wear a lighter type of boot, and so there was very little demand for the heavy expensive Mullinahone brogue. At the time of the Civil War Nortons had 2,000 pairs of boots on the premises. These they disposed of by selling them at a very reduced price or by giving them away gratis. They have still several pairs of uppers, principally ladies'.In the early days of the industry the uppers were made in Mullinahone, but later they were bought ready-made.

Basket making was very much in evidence in Mullinahone in the past. There is still alive a member of the Keating Family who did a big trade in basket making.The type of basket mostly made by this family was the round one with two handles. It took two people to carry it and it was mostly used for the picking of the potatoes and mangolds. The baskets were made of sally sticks which are to be found in great quantities in a swamp called the Mill Pond which is about a half mile from the Village of Mullinahone. They used to spend the summer months making baskets and had no trouble in disposing of them in the months of September and October at the fair of Callan.Tom Keating of Mullinoly is the only member of the family who now earns his living by basket making.

I live in the townland of Ballylanigan in the parish of Mullinahone and the barony of Slieveardagh. There are ten families in the townland and fifty-four people. O'Brien is the most common family name. Five houses are slated and five are thatched. None of the old people know Irish . The land is low-lying and poor. It is subject to floods. It is wooded around Hilton.
Brigid Cody, Ballylanigan, Mullinahone, Co. Tipperary.

4. You cannot squeeze blood out of a turnip.
Nellie O' Connell, Fethard St Mullinahone
Told by Michael Norton, Fethard St Mullinahone,
(Aged 35 years, Tailor)