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  1. (gan teideal)

    “It is considered unlucky to cut a hazel tree or a blackthorn bush.”

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    Leathanach 274

    It is considered unlucky to cut a hazel tree or a blackthorn bush.

  2. (gan teideal)

    “Our great-grandmother did not go to town or city for bottle or box from the chemist ship to cure their ills.”

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    Leathanach 281

    the fruit of the blackthorn was the cure

  3. An Old Story

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    Leathanach 118

    killed because he cut the blackthorn bushes and ploughed the mound.

  4. Blackthorn Sticks

    “The usual stick made is the blackthorn...”

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    Leathanach 263

    The usual stick made is the blackthorn. The blackthorn is cut and the handle of it is put into a pot of boiling water which makes it soft, when it is soft a knob is turned on it. The makers of sticks are Bob Travers, James Boles, and Pat Kelly. They never cut off the thorns off a blackthorn stick they say you would spoil it. The whim bush makes a very nice stick if it is got the right length and thickness. It is very easy to twist it. A handle or knob is formed on it by putting it in a pot of boiling water.

  5. (gan teideal)

    “There is not much blackthorn growing around this district, because the old belief about it was, that who ever would set it,”

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    Leathanach 281

    There is not much blackthorn growing around this district, because the old belief about it was, that who ever would set it according as it would be growing the person would be dying and that is why no one sets a blackthorn hedge.

  6. Cure for Timber Tongue in Cattle

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    Leathanach 323

    I saw this cure being applied by Mr. Jas. Collins, Carhuvouler[?], Rossmore, Ballineen, Co. Cork. He is a man of 73 and when I saw him apply the cure to a cow affected with 'timber-tongue' was in July 1925.
    "Timber-tongue" is a disease in cattle, more especially in milch cows, which affects the tongue principally and sometimes the lower jaw is weighed down with a remarkable swelling, The cow's tongue and lower jaw become so inflamed and stiff that it cannot sometimes eat nor drink. Mr. Collins cut some branches of blackthorn bushes, selected the most bulky, and cut them into lengths of about 4 inches. He put about two pounds of these blackthorn stumps into a pot and put sufficient water in to cover them. He then put it to boil and simmer over the fire for about two hours. Then he dosed the animal with the liquid in the pot, and placed the pot under the animals head - seemingly that it should inhale the vapour from the boiled blackthorn. The dose was administered at 6 o'clock in the evening and the following morning the cow was chewing the cud and able to eat and drink.

  7. (gan teideal)

    “In our farm there is a lios. Long ago it was a graveyard.”

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    Leathanach 195

    In our farm there is a lios. Long ago it was a graveyard. it is said that soldiers were buried there and after each person was buried a blackthorn bush was set over his grave. As the years went by the blackthorn bushes grew larger and more plentiful. There was one bush in it which grew larger than the others. It is said that the last person that was buried in it had always carried a blackthorn stick with him and he wished it to be buried with him. It was buried with him and that was the reason why that bush grew is large. Some people that passed it late at night said it was haunted.
    One night a man was coming along the road at about twelve o'clock, he had heard before that the lios was haunted so he got afraid. He did not like to pass it but as he could go no other way home he went on.
    All of a sudden a light flashed and the man

  8. Local Fairs - Aonaigh na Dúiche

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    Leathanach 168

    There was a big fair held in Ballingarry about thirty years ago, but it was discontinued because there was not a sufficient number of buyers coming, and it was too far from the nearest railway station which is Laffans-bridge. They used to be held on the fair green on certain days in the year. The biggest fair was held there on the 23rd July. It was called the "gooseberry" fair because there used to be big carts of gooseberries sold in the village on that day. The fair green is opposite the school. It is marked on the ordnance map in the school, "Fair green." It is owned at present by Mr John Fennelly. At that time it was owned by Miss Roohan. There used to be be three other fairs held in Ballingarry during the year, and on the 22nd of November There used to be travelling shops at these fairs from Kilkenny, Thurles, and Callan. If a farmer sold his cattle he used to have to pay a toll. Mr Richard Fine of Ballingarry used to stand on the gate to gather the toll. At this time there were two rival factions in the parish. The "Coravats" and the "Shanovests" and they used to be fighting with blackthorn sticks. The fight used to start generally when the fair was over and used to continue for two hours. Towards evening Fr Philip Fitzgerald P.P. used to visit the fair for the purpose of collecting the blackthorn sticks from the men. There is a room in the Parochial house still balled the "blackthorn" room.

  9. Fairy Forts

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    Leathanach 024

    There are seven fairy forts in the school district: two in the townsland of Puckane, two in the townsland of Scraggeen, one in the townsland of Gurtnanoe, one in the townsland of Derrygreen and one in the townsland of Derryleigh. In Puckane and in Scraggeen each fairy fort is called a liss and in Derryleigh and in Derrygreen a fort, in Gurtannoe also it is called a fort.
    The forts in Puckane are in view of the forts in Scraggeen, Gurtnanoe and Derrggreen. The fort in Derryleigh is in view of the Scraggeen and Gurtnanoe forts. One of the Scraggeen forts is in view of Derrygreen, the other in view of Gurtnanoe. The fort in Gurtnanoe is in view of the Scraggeen, Puckane and Derrygreen forts.
    The forts are all cicular in shape and with the exception of the fort in Derrygreen and one of the forts in Puckane, each fort is surrounded by a fence of blackthorn trees. In the middle of the fort in Derrygreen there is a blackthorn tree and a bank of earth about two feet high surrounds the fort. There are trenches round the forts in Puckane. One has blackthorn trees growing around the fort and trenches, the other has one blackthorn tree and two holly trees growing around the trench and a crab tree growing in the centre of the trench.
    Children picking primroses in the vicinity of Scraggeen for some years ago were approached by a beautiful lady who came from the fort and told them to scatter the flowers where they had picked them and never to pluck a flower there again. While they were strewing the flowers as directed the lady disappeared.

  10. The Morning Spirit

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    Leathanach 185

    Shouted back at him "Have you the rogue caught" She made a spring as if to knock the man down. The man gave a side jump, and avoided her. His courage began to waver, as it dawned upon him that this enemy of his was the "Morning Spirit". Still he kept his presence of mind, and kept baffling her with his blackthorn, at the same time backing towards the mearing wall. He knew that if he got over the mearing wall she could follow him no farther. When he came to within a yard or two of the wall, he made a spring for it, at the same time giving a back stroke of the hawthorn to the woman, which knocked her to the ground; as she was falling she said, "You are a brave man, but you may thank your blackthorn, an the mearing, or you would be a dead man."
    From neighbour, Mrs. Thornton, 90yrs

  11. Customs

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    Leathanach 29

    Long ago when the men used to be at the fair of Straid they used to have a blackthorn stick at the fair they used to be people boiling pots

  12. The Closing of Kilmurry Chapel

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    Leathanach 124

    The bishop then said he would give Baslic a priest and hoped the people would like him. He then sent "the crossest priest that ever stood on an altar to teach manners to the roughs of Baslic". This priest was Father Fitzmaurice a great big "bracket" man who always carried a blackthorn stick, and was quick to use it. Father Fitzmaurice determined to put down the faction fights at the great fairs then held in Castleplunkett on 11th May and 11th October. The factions which fought, fair after fair belonged to the Beirne family and the Rogers' family. Something very small would rise the row and the whole fair would become a mass of men fighting with sticks. Father Fitzmaurice used march through the fair, backwards and forwards, with his blackthorn ready, and when the row would start he would prevent it from spreading by knocking the fighting parties senseless with one

  13. Ballyhad Upper

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    Leathanach 218

    James Byrne's lands contain a grave yard in which Mc Guinns Baile is meadhon cut a blackthorn and died a cripple for the same 2 years afterwards 1844.

  14. The Mollies' Men

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    Leathanach 467

    There was a band of Mollies' Men in this district. Nearly every townland was represented.
    A man named Séamuisín Coll was leader. There was then another band in the Doochary district. Ballinacarrick Bridge was the Boundary between these two sets of Mollies' Men. A man named Paddy Bonner was the leader of the Doochary Mollies' Men. The two bands were always quarrelling. Paddy Bonner didn't like Séamuisín Coll.
    One day Paddy challenged Séamuisín to meet him with his men in Doochany. Matthew Morrow's grandfather lived the County Cess. He used to carry a wee blackthorn stick with a whank tied at one end to twist around his wrist. When the old man died his son hung up the wee blackthorn in the kitchen corner. As day was clearing one morning Séamuisín Coll arrives in to Matthew's father (the old man's son) for a drink. They had a Public House. While he was drinking he asked for the wee blackthorn. Matthew's father enquired where he was going etc. and then he tried to persuade him to turn but all was in vain. He got the sick and went on. Both parties met on Doochany street. Paddy wanted to come to friendly terms with Séamuisín & his men. He wanted them all to have a drink. Séamuisín wanted fight. The fight began.

  15. Travelling People

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    Leathanach 471

    and he would go after them like a mad bull waving his blackthorn stick at them all the time.

  16. Story - The Man and the Blackthorn Stick

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    Leathanach 062

    There lived in this locality long years ago a man who was very interested in dressing and preparing blackthorn sticks for sale.
    One day as he was passing a lios or rath he saw a beautiful specimen of blackthorn and his eye fell upon what he considered should make a rare blackthorn stick.
    He went home and got his saw or some other suitable tool and returned immediately and cut this stick. He had often heard that a lios or rath should not be interfered with but his anxiety for the stock overcame his fears. When he went home he put up his stick inside n his rod chimney and left it there
    to season.
    After a few days he became very ill and began to grow worse every day. The doctor was sent for but he couldn't diagnose the strange disease from which the man was pining away. After a few days he confessed that he was unable to do anything for him. His wife was in a terrible state as she knew her husband was about to die.
    One day an old man was passing by their door and he grew faint and ill and fell by the wayside. She went out and helped him in and after giving him something to eat and drink she noticed that he revived and was able to set out on his journey again. Before leaving the house she told him of her trouble and

  17. (gan teideal)

    “In olden times it was the custom in the south of Ireland that no one was to ask anything or receive it from May-eve till the following day....”

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    Leathanach 259

    by witch-craft be believed to be getting it all the year round and farmers used to stay up that night to keep watch on their barns and cattle.
    On one occasion a farmer told his boy to watch his milch cows and gave him a blackthorn stick and directed him to use it lavishly on any intruder during the night. Now being uneasy in his mind he went to the barn to see if his boy was asleep. He entered as noiselessly as possible but the boy heard the noise and got behind the door. The farmer entered but did not remember any more for some weeks after as the boy obeyed the instructions given to use the blackthorn on every intruder.

  18. (gan teideal)

    “There was a great poacher who lived in Bun a' Chumar.”

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    Leathanach 429

    sergeant in front of him with a blackthorn stick in his hand, the constable behind him and the pool to his left. In the fraction of a second he dropped the "toarch" and gaff and jumped into the pool which was eight feet deep and about seven or eight feet below the bank. As he jumped the sergeant drew his blackthorn at him hitting him across one shoulder and barely missing his head. The stroke partly stunned him but he stood in the water and did not sink. He was a powerful swimmer but could not stretch to swim.
    The sergeant from the light of the "toarch" was not a good swimmer and he must have thought that Maurice was standing on the bed of the river so without even throwing off his cape he jumped in but barely fell short of Maurice. The wave he caused stretched Maurice on the water and he swam down the pool. The Sergeant was immediately in difficulties in the deep water. Teh constable held up the blazing "toarch" and with difficulty got down to the water-edge and with the poachers gaff brought the sergeant to land.

  19. (gan teideal)

    “There is a lios near our house it is said to be haunted. The fairies are out around the lios every night.”

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    Leathanach 197

    There is a lios near our house it is said to be haunted. The fairies are out around the lios every night. There is a stone stair way leading from the river under the ground to the lios that is two fields away from it. There is an other lios not very far away and a graveyard. The fairies are said to be seen passing from one to another. The dead people out of the grave yar used to go in around the house every night.
    One night a man was passing he heard music in the lios and he saw a great number of little people and they were dancing He saw a light leaving the lios and going to the house near by.
    There is a blackthorn bush growing in the lios is is said that a blackthorn stick was buried with a soldier and it grew. When the lios was cut and when the graveyard was tilled the people were heard crying around the house that

  20. Fairy Forts

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    Leathanach 017

    In the district in and around Bilboa there are not many fairy forts. There is a "Liss" in Mr Willie Bourke's field in Bilboa. The liss is surrounded by blackthorn bushes. It is said that horses have been seen at night there. Tom Moloney Bilboa cut a blackthorn stick out of the liss and got a Féirín and was lame until he died.
    There is another liss in Mr Lloyd's field. It is said that a man was passing by the liss one night and he heard fairies singing. He stood listening for a moment and he began to sing, and when the fairies heard him they came out and took him in. After a while they asked him would like anything to be done for him so he said "Take that lump off my back".