A well in the Loughcrew Hills cures the "Rose". It is necessary that if it is to cure a boy a girl must lift the water from the well and visa-versa.

of wlhicky in his pocket and he drank more than he thought of it, he sat down and fell asleep on the next morning when he awoke he foundhimself sitting on a large Tombstown belong to the Plunkett Family in Clonabraney that is six miles from where he fell asleep and he was in a very weak condition. After that there was no remark of people visiting Loughcrew Grave Yard.

on the traditions that lived down the years amongst the old people - many of them native Irish speakers, and whose people lived for centuries in the parish - that it was the birthplace of Blessed Oliver Plunkett. Some learned historians give Loughcrew as his birthplace, while others favour County Louth completely ignoring the claims of Drumsoura and the tradition handed down, from father to son, around Oldcastle. The name Oliver appears to have been a family, and this may have had led to some error on the part of the historians. The local tradition

In the townland of Loughcrew there lived about a hundred years ago people of the Gray. They were very conceited and did not like poor people. Martin the poet was alive at this time, so he made up the following poem:-His glowing soil his beans he drew,
From Erin's hills of green
Alone I wander through Loughcrew,
To enjoy a pleasant scene.

meadows, which surround it. I live near the beautiful hills and vale of Lough-Crew. The Irish name of Loughcrew is Sliabh na Cailighe. It is said that a witch lived on the hills at one time.

Blessed Oliver Plunkett was born in Loughcrew in 1629. He was the Archbishop of Armagh, and primate of All Ireland. He was hanged at Tyburn in London 1681 for the Faith. His head was cut off, and thrown in a fire, but some woman took the head out of the fire. It is still preserved in St. Peter's Church, Drogheda.There are three hills overlooking the demesne of Loughcrew. The first hill is "Cairn Báwn", the second hill is the Carraig, and the third hill is Billie's hill. On Cairn Bawn there are several cairns, that is why it is called "Cairn Bawn". The Carraig is a bare hill. There is a big square rock on it, like a Mass rock, but I've neer heard of Mass being celebrated there. On Billie's hill there is a hag's wishing chair. It is ten feet long and six feet in height and it is about ten tons in weight.There is one large heap of stones surrounded by a heap of stone-slabs resembling head-stones half-buried in the ground. That is supposed to be the burial place of Queen Taltaí.

3The following story happened about seventy years ago in Loughcrew Co. Meath to a woman who was living in a a big house in Loughcrew, and she had a lot of rings on her fingers and the yard-man wanted to get them, so when she died she was put in to a vault and that night he went to the vault and went in. He tried to take the rings off but he could not, so he cut off her fingers and while he was still cutting them off she wakened up for she was only in a trance. She got up and walked to her own house and knocked at the door and her husband opened it and when he saw her he fainted, for he thought it was her ghost.Written by Eithne Kearney Baltrasna Oldcastle
told to me by Harry McCabe Baltrasna Oldcastle
aged 33 years

Grand flowing lakes in crystals
And vales of emerald green.Oh there is not in this wide World,
A grander place to view,
Than the lovely dells where Zepher dwells.
In beautiful old Loughcrew."Loughcrew means the lake of the branchy trees and so near Knocklough Crossroads you find this lake spoken of, surrounded by great trees and completely invisible to the passers-by.

I am watching I am waiting
Where the green grass grows
Its a pathway that lead to Oldcastle
Where the dewdrop hangs down from the rose
Since the day that we parted
I'm lonely
The day that I bade you adieu
When the sun shone down in its glory
On the mountains of lovely Loughcrew.Come back to the mountains Oh come back to me
Come back to the mountains across the blue sea
The wild birds are whistling a welcome to you
Come back to the mountains of Lovely LoughcrewCome back to Oldcastle at the close of day
When the blackbirds are singing and the lambs are at play
And the fox from his den by the pathway is stealing
To scare off the plover and the wild curlewe
From the home in old Teltown or lovely Loughcrew

slab on the other side. He wrote on it. All the men and money in the place Would not put the nose straight on old Rowley's face. When old Rowley saw the slabs he removed both of them and never put them there any more.
One morning my father James Mc Namee and Peter Mac were going to a fair in Kells very eary in the morning. When they came to the mill Hill in Kieran they saw a foxy woman walking about reading a black book. When she saw them she put the book by her side and turned into a hare and disappeared. They got afraid and returned home.
When Bill Lang was rolling Keiran and Castlepole road a few years ago he slept in the van on a Sunday night. During the night he was awakened by a big black dog scraping at the van door. He got up and tried to hunt the dog away and he wouldn't go. At last he had to light the fire in the engine and pull his van down a piece of the road. The dog did not bother him any more when he had shifted.
Of all the ancient monuments in Meath perhaps in Ireland Loughcrew is the greatest. Situated about 3 miles from Oldcastle, on the Kells road, the hills of Loughcrew has seen some of the ancient glory of the Kindom of Meath. Queen Tailte the founder of the Tailtean games is buried there and Allen Faide former High King of Meath is also buried there.

The Wartwell field Ballinvalley Co Meath
The Bushy field Crossdrum Co. "
Sheepwalk Loughcrew Co. "
The Poolfield Crossdrum Co. "
The Commons Dromone Co. "
Wood park Cossdrum Co. "
The Bull field Loughcrew Co. "
The Pump field Newcastle Co. "

Carn-bhán: is one of the Loughcrew Mountains, it is very high.
Sliabh-na- Cailleach: is the highest peak of the Loughcrew Mountains.
Slue-eirce: is a little hill in Knock-lough Oldcastle, Co Meath.
Slue-báire: is in the same place, it is a high hill.
Slue-guillen: is a high, it is also in the same place as slue-eirce.
Carrick-hill: is a very high hill, in Loughcew, Oldcastle, Co Meath.
Poole-a-foacka: is a small hill at Grennon, Moylough, Oldcastle, Co Meath

'The Planting' another small wood is about a quarter of a mile west of Loughcrew.
'The big wood' just beside the Landlords house, is a very big wood.
'The nut wood' got its name because of all the nut trees that grow in it.
There is another small wood locally known as 'The wet wood' it is never dry even in dry Summer. It is a very big dark, gloomy-looking wood.
Here is my favourite wood_ 'The raspberry wood', In Summer you would get lots of wild raspberries, wild strawberries and blackberries there.
The river in my district is the Inny, it flows to Lough Sheelin.
No wonder this beautiful district was hailed by a man there who had travelled all over the world and lived for years in New Zealand as 'Sweet Loughcrew'

The Glebe Loughcrew Co Meath
Frokhill Millbrook Co "
The Pound Millbrook Co. "
The Seven acres Tubride Co. "
Th Brickyard Tubride Co. "
Buesters field Tubride Co. "
Gap of the glen Ballinacree Co. "
The fairies seat Newcastle Co. "
The Bottly Hallow Loughcrew Co. "
The scholar's garden Crossdrum Cp. "
The Fairies Poncons Loughcrew Co. "
The Stray field Fennor Co. "
The Key field Drumleery Co. "
The Mill field Drumleery Co. "
The Flaggery Corner Summerbank Co. "
Bully Acre Lennox St. Oldcastle Co. "
The Loughran Summerbank Co. "
The Furry Hill Summerbank Co. "
The Castle field Summerbank Co. "
The Weasle's field Tubride Co. "
The Malt House meadow Tubride Co. "
The Moat field Tubride Co. "
The Clover Hill Boolies Co. "
Sky field Oldcastle Co. "
Paddock Station, Oldcastle Co. "
The Deer Park Summerbank Co. "

There was a Fr. Reilly and he was killed beyond on the road on the right hand side beyond Reillys of Williamstown. The cross was once at the foot of the mountain in the walls of a Chapel that was knocked in the early ages. It is Loughcrew mountain. It is in the wall beyond Reillys of Williamstown It was the Yeomen killed Fr. Reilly. They met him on the road one day and Catholic men were in the crowd and they knew him. He was known as Black Hugh Reilly

There is a very remarkable place on the road from Crossakiel to Oldcastle. It is call the Moate of Diamor.
It is a big hill whichis circular in shape. It is a fairy fort and it is in view of another fairy fort called, "Sliabh na Calaig" in the Loughcrew mountains. It is said that a witch carried a big heap of stone from the Moate of Diamor toSliabh na Calaig, in her apron, and made a chair with them called the "Hag's Chair".

for a long time. Tanham's cottage was also built on a leipreahaun's pass and a statue of the Blesset Virgin appeared in it and it is there to this day. The Leipreahauns are to be seen on Hallow Eve and on moon light nights. They ride grey horses. There was a dwaft of a man in Rosmeath named Quinn who was with the fairies. There was once a girl going to her neighbour with a hen and a clutch of eggs. When she was going at Roatstown a little man dressed in red ran out on the road and stoped her. He took the hen from her and threw away her eggs. The fairies used to have a meeting at Loughcrew and they had foot-ball team. They used to kick foot-ball at night. There was once a man going home from work when he came to a house with a man standing by the door

family is loved so much. Cromwell knocked a chapel at Diamor, the chapel in the graveyard, chapel in Kilua, chapel at Ball's gate, chapel at Kilskyre, and a chapel at Clonarney. He killed Druids and priests in the chapel at the graveyard. Cromwell put a very famous family out of Loughcrew. Their names were Plunkett. He put a soldier named Naper into live in it and his decendants are in Lough to this very day. There was a castle in Bennett's field and Cromwell stood on a hill called Crokeagunny which means hill of the guns was called after Cromwell for it was on this hill he stood when he knocked the chapel in the grave yard and the caslt ein Bennett's field. Cromwell went to Lord Gormans castle and met

and is landlord of Oldcastle he is a good landlord also. On the night that he was born Loughcrew House was burned to the ground and his father said that he would never re build it again only on account of him and it was said also that the present Captain Naper was reared on greyhound's milk. There is no landlord over Moylough.Written by Mollie McCabe Murrens Oldcastle Co Meath

him but to reward him for saving her from a dreadful death.
There is a hollow in Loughcrew graveyard it is said to mark the grave which was never filled in afterwards.