A shipwreck is a very sad happening. It is really a struggle between death and life. There was a shipwreck in Tramore about one hundred and twenty years ago. Tramore is a maritime town, and has a strand three miles long which is surrounded by rocks the mariners enemy. At noon February 2nd, 1816 a ship called the Sea-Horse was wrecked in Tramore. Two hundred and ninety two men and seventy-two women and children were drowned. There is a monument in Tramore in memory of the event.

Football matches were played in this district long ago. This is a description of one. The teams were Hilles and Dunmore against Carbally and Tramore. Twenty one men were on either side. A match was played first between the team and the best players were picked out. The match was played in a field in Ballinvella. It was parish against parish game. Carbally and Tramore won. Richard Flynn of Carbally won fame on the field. Carbally and Tramore scored two goals two points and Killea and Dunmore scored one goal. Carbally and Tramore wore green and yellow jumpers and knitted caps to match. Killea and Dunmore wore blue and black jumpers and knitted caps to match. The referee was appointed.

The date in which the feast of the assumption falls is the fifteenth of agust. All the people of Wexford go to the races in tramore on the fifteenth of agust. It is held every year in tramore. Men women and children go on the train every year. Some years the children get lodt in tramore. The guards get the children and bring them to the station, and the people that own them get them.

main-road the Carrick-road the Iramore-road and the Portlaw road. The main-road leads from Cork City to Waterford City. This road is tarred because there is a large amount of traffic on it every day. The Carrick road which leads from Waterford to Carrick is also tarred. The Tramore road leads from Tramore to the Cork road and the Portlaw road leads from Portlaw to Carroll's Cross.

There are many roads in this parish. Barron's road was called after the Barron's who resided on it. The Castle road is so called from Butlerstown Castle. There is a tarred road, called the Cork road, and another, called the Tramore road.
The Knockeen road, Ballycashin road Green road, Hall's road the old Cork road behind Hearn's of Killottern Grassy road and Killronan road are names of others. Barron's road and the Tramore road lead us to town or Tramore. All those roads are still in use. Pierry Walshe's lane was made by King James. There is a Mass path going from the back of Joe Power's house to the Holy Cross. There is another going through the lios. There is an át near Hayes's house, in Whitfield. There is a road crossing it. It gave water to the people around.

There are Cross roads at the Head-off Tramore road, Butlerstown Cross and the Hall's road.

"where are you going little man." "To the races of Tramore, " said the boy. "What do you want to go there for, " said the marquis. "To see the Marquis of Waterford." said the boy. "Oh. Sit up here" said the marquis and you will shortly see him. As they were driving into Tramore the people greeted the marquis with salutes. "Now" said the marquis to the boy, "do you know whom the people are cheering." "Well sir" said the boy "it must be either you or I.

Parle of the "Mill of Rags"
There is an old story told of a miller of the "Mill of Rags" Duncormack 7 miles E. from St. Leonard's school. After his death noises of weights being thrown about and a voice crying out "Weight and Measure" annoyed all the workers in the mill by day as well as by night.
The priest had to be brought to bless the place and to banish the annoying spirit. Old Mrs Roche of St. Leonards told me he was banished to the Red Sea(?)A ghost at St. Leonards
At Whites of St. Leonards there is a house always kept locked It took three priests to put that annoying spirit in that house in the yard.
Tradition has it that a former owner of that farm was killed off a horse and that his spirit haunted the place to the great annoyance and terror not only of the occupiers, but of the passers-by.
Fr. Keating was the priest who did the exorcism and it is said locally that the two priests who supported him fainted.A ghost in a farmhouse near Tramore Co. Waterford.
The last time I drove with friends to Tramore, the driver pointed out to us a farmhouse, on the right hand side of the road (as it ? approached from Waterford city) just near Tramore, where he said a threshing takes place every single night of the year. The noise and bustle of threshing day is heard by the occupiers, who have now become so accustomed to it as to take it as a matter of course.

The local fairs are held in Ballybricken, Waterford City. They are always held in towns. Buyers transact business at farmers houses. Fairs were held in Tramore but are now discontinued. There is no tradition of fairs held on hills, in the neighbourhood of cemetries. The town fair is held on the street of Ballybricken.

The Weathercock was a schooner of about 2,000 tons. She was bound from Australia to Waterford with a cargo of grain. When she came to Tramore Bay a storm arose. She put into Tramore for shelter. This is a very dangerous spot as the Bay contains many submerged rocks.The captain did not know the place very well. The boat ran aground. The tide went out and he could not get the boat off. The next morning about five hundred rats ran ashore and scattered all over the town. Then they had to dig a long trench out the bank. The boat got off went the tide came in.Not long afterwards news was got that the ship had been foundered.There is a common belief that when rats leave a ship in this manner, the ship is no longer seaworthy.

Some years ago the Marquis of Waterford was travelling in his four horse carriage to the races of Tramore. On the way he overtook a small barefooted boy trotting along the road. The marquis ordered his coachman to draw up and he said to the boy

cool fire or around the bats there is going to be a gale.
When the lights to the westward show high over the land there will be a freeze from the star.
Distant Objects.
When the Comeragh mountains look very high, blue and, near it is a sign of rain. When they are very clear, far distant it is a good sign and in frosty weather when they look very near and very clear the frost will continue.
When the western headlands show up the wind will be west or south-west. When the Spire of Tramore Chapel is reflected in the fog we will have rain
Sounds
When the waves in Tramore strand are heard roaring in ?corbally parish there.

Signs of approaching storms are-
When crows fly in flocks.
When there is a blow down in the chimney ie when the smoke blows through the house instead of going up the chimney.
If animals that are grazing in the fields or the hills leave these places and come home into their "houses."
To see rabbits out eating grass on a good day.
To hear Tramore roaring.
(Tramore is an inlet of the Atlantic, to the west of Horn Head)

In Tramore in Co. Mayo, there is a field owned by James Mc Walter. It is about a rood long and very narrow. In the centre of this field there is supposed to be gold hidden in the centre. The spot is surrounded by little shrubs. A long time ago three men decided to dig for the gold. One morning they began to dig and the spades they worked with were broken in two halves. They said that they wouldn't give in and they got three more spades and began work but all the earth that they dug up was put back in its place the next morning. They were afraid to look for the gold

of tea said the man, he would if you said you were from Waterford that is easy to say he said so he went away and he came to the house, and he knocked at the door the Priest came out and asked where was he from the man said he was from Waterford that is all right said the priest come to the back door and I will give you a cup of tea the man went to the back door and the Priest gave him the tea and he sat down with him until he had the tea drunk and the Priest said how is old Tramore he died last year said the man go away out of that said the Priest you are not from Waterford at all that is the name of a Parish when the Priest found he was not from Waterford he turned him away and was very vexed after giving him the tea.

Most of the old streams and lakes and fields and rocks an knocks that have Irish names have some history attached to them. The highest rock around this place in Sugar Loof Hill. Many people say that there is a crock of gold hidden there and that a leys-reacháin dwelled there also. A very fine view of the city and of the sea at Tramore can be had from Sugar Loaf, which is about two hundred feet high. Carrigcottle is nearly as high as Sugar Loaf. It got its name from a Dane called Cottle who lived there. Another rock in the locality is Carrig ruad - The Red Rock. It is so called because it is covered with heather.

One day not long after the Battle of Waterloo a ship called the Sea Horse came into Tramore Bay. The officers on her had plundered and robbed all the churches. They had all the sacred vessels and chalices on the ship. When the ship came to Brownstown Head she sunk. She did not strike any rocks and it was a very calm day. One officer was saved and he told the story and all the others were washed in ath the Burrow and buired at Drumcannon. All the officers had a couple of rings on each finger. The chalices were not found. There was a

in Scotic, Liossmór, meaning great lios". There are altogether eleven places in Ireland called by the name Lismore, all with the same meaning.Portlaw
Lágh, a hill, is not given in the dictionaries but it undoubtedly exists in the Irish language. Portlaw on the Suir took its name from the steep hill at the head of the village.Slieverue
Sliabh signifies a mountain. Slieverue in Waterford signifies the red mountain.Tramore
Tráigh signifies a strand. Tramore means the great strand.Waterford
When we consider how prominently the Danes figure in our history, it appears a matter of surprise that they have left so few traces of their presence. We possess very few structures that can be proved to be Danish, and that sure mark of conquest, the change of local names has occurred in only a very few instances; for there are little more

Some years ago the country people of the district of Tramore used to indulge in "birding" that is killing birds on very dark nights. One night two or three men went into the Lios field, birding. They came to a white thorn bush and found a beautiful thrush perched on a bough. The thrush was nearly the size of a cat and its eyes were fixed on the men. One of the men struck the thrush with a stick three times but thrush never moved, but looked at them unflinchingly. The men got so frightened that they ran home as fast as they could and never went "birding" again.

Ballynattin is a townland outside Tramore. About 90 years ago there was a family named Kirwan lived there. One of the sons was known as the Sheevra because he was so old and wizened. He could cure disease and people came from far and near to get cured. He never went out but he could tell everything that happened in the country around. He was very fond of whiskey. One day he asked his brother to bring a bottle of whiskey from the town. On his way back the brother thought he would take a drop of the whiskey "Shure said he "the old Sheevra wont know" Just as he was putting the bottle to his lips it was knocked up out of his hand and