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  1. Local Cures

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    Mrs. Dunne, Slate Row near Rathdrum makes ointments from tapioca and various herbs.

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    “Glenmalure is probably the most historic place in the county. It is nine miles from Rathdrum and six from Glendalough by the old military road...”

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    Michael Dwyer was born at Ballinacor one mile from Grianán under the shadows of Log na Coille. He was much harassed by the Yeomanry stationed at Rathdrum. Many stories of their ruthlessness are still extant. They were stationed in the Flannel Hall ( presently the Courthouse ) and the garden at the back of hall gives proof that its soil was often stained by the blood of Ireland. The crops from this garden are about the best in the neighbourhood.

    Not far from Rathdrum is Avondale - the home of the Parnells. Charles Stewart Parnell's father was of English descent and he had no Irish, Ireland ideas or culture. When Charles Stewart was a young lad he often talked to an old gateman named Gaffney. Gaffney told him about the cruelties perpetrated by the Yeomanry on the natives. Gaffney saw the Yeos dragging a man from Avondale to Rathdrum and when he told this story and similar ones to Parnell it stirred his imagination and he became afterwards a champion of Ireland's rights.
    There is a marked social difference between the urban dwellers in Rathdrum and

  3. Local Roads

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    Local Roads
    There is an old road in Cronawinna. It leas across the hill from Cronawinna to Rathdrum. It is know as the "High Road" My grandfather remembered this road as the main road. It is not used now as it is closed up with bushes. It is a loss that it is not used, as it was a very short way to Rathdrum.
    The stones with which Rathdrum Catholic Church was built, were drawn along this old road from Macreddin Rock. This was the principal pass to Macreddin Church and School from Clash and Cloneen. One day my grandfather was coming along this road and four hundred (hor) soldiers on horse-back passed

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    “Glenmalure is probably the most historic place in the county. It is nine miles from Rathdrum and six from Glendalough by the old military road...”

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    Glenmalure is probably the most historic place in the country. It is nine miles from Rathdrum and six from Glendalough by the old military road which road was constructed in the days of Elizabeth to enable the British troops to penetrate the fortresses of Wicklow in their search for Fiach Mac Aodha.
    Fiach himself traversed this road during his incursions on English territory at Brí Chualann. This was the road traversed by Lords Grey and Russell with their army to smash for ever Fiachs lordship. Their army had to retreat and they retreated by way of Rathdrum and their retreat is remembered in the name "Deputies Pass" - a narrow old borheen midway between Rathdrum and Glenealy.
    The castle of Drumgoff stands in the valley to this day and is in a fair state of preservation. It was built in

  5. Good Walkers

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    Good walkers
    There was a poor man named Peter Burke he lived about Rathdrum, he used to walk to fairs, he had no home. Once he walked from Kildare to Rathdrum in a night.

  6. Local Industries

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    Mr P. Whelan, Baleece, Rathdrum, is a famous man for making cart wheels.
    Mar Hawkins who is now dead was a famous blacksmith. He made firecranes, wheels and nails. He was also famous for mending all classes of farm implements. He lived in Annamoe.
    Thomas Kennedy, Rathdrum, makes potatoes baskets and sometimes makes fancy baskets.
    James Smith of Clash makes many gates.
    There are hand weavers in Avoca they make blankets, rugs and tweeds. Their names are Miss Wynn.
    Croney Byrne Clara, had a tanning factory but now discontinued.
    In Rathdrum Courthouse they used to make flannel, but also discontinued.
    Doyles Tinahely make churns.
    Mrs Burne a soldier's wife who lives in Killcandra made many mats and rugs for people in the district and even sent them to Dublin.
    There is a local thatcher in Drumdangan, he thatches any houses in his district. His name is "Paddy Barrett".
    Mr J. Fleming, Barndarrig, Kilbride makes cart wheels, also Mr F. Wyley, Glenealy.
    Mr R. Taylor, Kilcandra, Rathdrum, blacksmith makes fire cranes.
    Mrs. W. Sheane, Ballkilavane, Glenealy makes her own soap.

  7. Local Industries

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    About one hundred years ago, the people of Rathdrum were famous for making flannel. There is still in the town a hall that is called the flannel hall. This was the market in which the flannel was bought and sold.
    There was also a brewery in the town, and there is a story told that a drunken man turned on taps in the vats and all the beer that was in them was lost and so the place closed down.
    Flour milling has been carried on in Rathdrum since 1826.
    There is a whinstone quarries in Rathdrum, the stones of which Lead mining was carried on in Glenmalure, and Glendalough. Gold, Copper and Ochre were mined at Avoca. All these mines are more or less worked out. There is a pit in the middle of Ballyteigue wood which used to be a tanning pit.
    Woolen mills in Greenan now discontinued but the walls are still standing.
    About one hundred years ago Leather Tanning was carried on in a place called The Bark Mill. The people who owned the mill gave great employment. They used to Tann with the Bark of Oak that is how the mill got the name of bark Mill.

  8. Greenane Bridge

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    Greenane Bridge.
    Two wheelers were piked under Greenane bridge '98. Dixon, Doyle, Toole, Davis and Paddy Byrne (Carpenter) who were informers were shot in '98.
    Rathdrum yeos posted in Allen's burnt walls, were routed by rebels under General Holt, Dwyer & J. Doyle of Ballinacor by a ruse de guerre. There was a man maned Cosker shot under the eye.
    In Baravore is the house of Pierce Harvey, where Dockrell Rathdrum was shot by the rebels when they were hunted from the glen. Harvey's grandfather's thigh was broken by a shot of one of the yeoman.

  9. Old Graveyards

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    There are three graveyards around Rathdrum. There is one attached to the Church of Ireland in Rathdrum. One outside the town used by Roman Catholics, it is called Kilcommon, in the townland of Bahana. There is the ruin of a church in this graveyard. There is also a Pauper graveyard attached to the County Home. It is called the Shankyard.
    The graveyard attached to the Church of Ireland is quite small, and has been recently done up, and many old tombstones have been done away with. The oldest tombstone I have ever seen was 1729. It was made of slate.
    Kilcommon graveyard is on the side of a hill, and is almost square in shape. There is the reuin of an old church in it. Only the end wall and part of one side was left. The oldest tombstone in this graveyard is dated 1729. There are some iron crosses and a couple of wooden ones there also.

  10. The Local Forge

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    There are four forges in this district. One in Clash, two in Rathdrum and one in Knockrath. The name of the smith in Clash is Jim Smith, the names of the smiths in Rathdrum are Mr Kelly and Stephen Mulvey, the name of the smith in Knockrath is Mr. Roche. the forge in Knockrath has a tiled roof and a horshoe door. It was in use many years ago whe Lord Meath's farm was worked.
    There is one fireplace in it but the anvil and bellows are missing. It was built in the year 1888. It must have been an interesting forge when horse labour was plentiful and

  11. Local Ruins

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    Local Ruins
    There is a ruined castle in Knockrath. It is called O'Tooles Castle. There is also another ruined castle in Stump. It is called Stump Castle. This is about two miles outside Rathdrum. It is in the barony of Ballinacor and in the parish of Rathdrum. It is said that a man looked out the castle windown one night at twelve o'clock and saw a hearse and four black horses drawing it. It is said that the castle is haunted. There is an underground tunnel from Stump Castle to Avondale. It is said that any body that went

  12. O'Toole's Castle - Powerscourt

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    Arklow. The Rebels sent a messenger McKenna to Dwyer who was in hiding in the hills near Glendalough. McKenna went to a house in Rathdrum and there a man named Kavanagh found out his business & gave the Redcoats word. The Redcoats followed the messenger, who finding himself pursued jumped over the fence & followed the banks of the river. At Laragh he was shot dead. Dwyer avenged this. Went to Rathdrum, interviewed Kavanagh brought him outside the town revealed his identity and shot him dead.
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    People always believed that money, jewels & etc. were hidden near OToole Castle. Years ago in the time of W. Rochford's grandmother two strange men from Mayo came to Rose Smyth's & were found digging in the grounds before the people were up. They had dreamt of money there & had also dreamt that a life was

  13. Famine Times

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    buy flour. The Protestants fared better because they got soup at certain places in each district. In this district they got it in the Flannel Hall in Rathdrum. The people died along the roads of grass fever.
    Billy Field
    Ballyhad
    Rathdrum
    Co. Wicklow
    This information was supplied by:-
    Terence Byrne
    Ballyhad
    Rathdrum
    Co. Wicklow

  14. Allen's Factory, Greenane

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    There has been for many years in the county at Greenane near Rathdrum an establishment for carrying on the manufacture of superfine woollen clothes in which Messers Allen a family from the West of England made a considerable income. This was burned to the ground by the rebels in 1798 for which the proprietor

  15. Rathdrum

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    Rathdrum
    Andrew Thomas butler to Capt. Hugo was known as the Irish Bonaparte. Harmon who was a gamekeeper in the employment of Capt Hugo was an informer. The maid in Hugo's who overheard Harmon giving information against Andrew Thomas immediately gave the bend to Thomas. She said if I were a herring I wouldn't wait to be turned whereupon Thomas fled taking with him his gun which he had nicknamed "Roaring Bess" & "Nell Killall". On the 22nd Dec. 1800 Andrew Thomas was tracked down and killed. His head was fixed on Flannel Hall Rathdrum. A few days later Christy Byrne & Wm. Burke informers were killed by a man named Doyle. Doyle was later shot by Capt. Hugo's informer John Harmon.
    The following verse was written at the time that Andrew Thomas was killed.
    When they say Thomas falling

  16. Local Fairs

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    They go the night before. There is also a great up in Rathdrum, where the folk of this district go every August to sell their fat sheep.

  17. Hurling and Football

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    in their own clothes with their coat turned inside out and a pair of hob nail boots. The day before the match all the plaers sent their boots into the cobbler to get them nailed and a piece of tin on the toe of the boots. There was no refering done. The type of ball were used was a hay ball stick together with tar or pitch.
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    Rathdrum.
    Some of this information was suplied by, Mr. P. Doyle, Kilcommon, Rathdrum, Co. Wicklow.

  18. Ride on Calf - Fairy

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    well "leaped of a calf if I never got home With that he broke the spell and they let him down and he had to stop there until daylight and then he found himself out side Rathdrum and he had to get home the best he could.

  19. (gan teideal)

    “A blessed well in my uncle field in Slieveroe...”

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    A blessed well in my uncles field in Slieveroe Rathdrum was belittled by a man who cut a hawthorn from over, Aar people used to leave bandages in on when they used to get cured. The next morning when he got up his mouth was turned out to his ear.