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of sycamore trees.

The Catholic Church in Ballinagh is called after, the saint.
St Feidim's holy well is situated beside Kilmore Protestant Church,
A few boys inn the district are (are) called after the saint.

slaughter had only the very vague outline here given, and unfortunately, she died some years ago at the ripe old age of ninety-three. Her grand-children (Lindsays) attend the school, and knew a little Irish from this worthy old lady.

whooping cough, if two people are married and the woman has not to change her sir name, and gets a piece of bread from her that this will cure the whooping cough.
The cure for wild fire is to rub the goats wisson to it for nine mornings, The cure for a stye on the eye is to rub it with nine iron spoons and throw the tenth away.
A person who never saw their father has the cure for the dirty mouth.

The people go to church or chapel to get married. Long ago when there were no cars the people would go to get married in a carriage. There are some days considered unlucky for marriage.

soon rain. The frog is a yellow colour in good weather and he changes to a black colour when rain is near. The rain bow is the sign of rain

VI
May the angels ever guard her.
Was her dying sister's prayer
And folded it in a letter.
A braid of nut brown hair.
End.

Health is better than wealth
An empty bag will not stand upright

never stop the plough to catch the mouse.
It is easier to fall than to rise.

loaves in those days. The people did some work before they took their breakfast in the morning, and then they took a good hearty, wholesome breakfast.

is my living place.

is my living space.

in it. Its name is Gartiname lake but in earlier years it got the name of Lough Furr. There are a lot of small streams in Gartinane. I do not know of any stories about them.

Her breath.
11. What has teeth and never eats with them.
A comb.
12. What goes round the house and stops in the corner at night.
The brush.

mostly at schools. There were not any of those games played long ago. I would rather play the ones that are played now.
There are indoor games also such as Draughts, bards, Snakes and Ladders, Ludo, Throwing the Rings and many others, There were not many of those games played long ago. There were Rings played long ago at cross roads also "Pitch and Toss" and "Skiettles", and some others.

on the land with bordogs. These bordogs were made of wood and they were hun across the asse's backs. There was a bottom made with a hinger so that they could open them and let whatever was in them fall down on the ground.
The bottoms would have to be opened together or they would turn the ass over. There were no lids on these bordogs. They are not used nowadays. They used slides made of wood for carts then. Some people use them for bringing in hay now.

As late as 50 years ago in out localty the people reaped their little harvest with a hook. One man would think nothing of reaping 2 1/2 Irish acres of corn. In earlier years from that, the donkey was much used by most people for conveying the loads to and from the houses.
The reason why the donkey was sp much used is because he was a beast of burden. The laneways were very narrow and there were a lot of humps and hollows in them also, no vehicle could travel on them with any comfortable except the ass.
There are vast improvements since those days, as nowadays most vehicles can travel on them. In later years they used seythes and thought they were a great improvement and nowadays they cut it with horses and reapers. They used creels on their asses in those days.
They drew the turf from the bogs in those creels on the asse's backs.They put out the manurer

There was no artificial manure but the poor farmers had a little bit of farmyard measure. The wealthy farmers has more. When the potatoes grew, they did not spray them because sulphate of copper had not been discovered at this time.
There were not very many diseases in those days, so when they were ready to dog, the men dug them with spades, and children, came and gathered them into a basket made from fine rods. They emptied these in the pit and they covered them with rushes and clay.

Long ago the people in Ireland did not plant much potatoes. There were not so many varieties of potatoes in those days. There were Champions, Red Rock, White Rock and Hounders.
There are not very many kinds of those potatoes to be got now-a-days. There were not very many kinds of those potatoes to be got nowadays.
There were not very many plough then, and people had to dog the ground with shovels and spades so as to pit in their plot of potatoes. The wealthy farmers were the only people who had ploughs then and they were not iron ploughs like nowadays, but they were made of wood.
Money was very scarce then, and things were very dear. People had not very big farms and they only kept a couple of goats and an ass. The wealthy farmers kept a couple of cows and a horse

their value still some time afterwards. Some time later he sold the remainder of them and he received a lot more money than at first.

There was a man who lived in the lowland of Taghart and he owned a large farm of land. He owned some parts of the mountain and a little meadow at the mountain. One day when he and the servant were moulding potatoes in the little meadow, he touched something which gave a single like a pot or something made from steel.
he told the servant to go and look at the cows which were on the mountain and when he had gone out of sight, Mr Kincade looked to see what it was. He found it was a pot of sovereigns. He lifted the pot, which was very heavy, and he went home with it.
When his servant came back, Mr Kincade was not there. he came back shortly but he did not tell his servant what he discovered Mr Kincade went to Dublin in a week or so and sold Dublin in a week or so and sold the half of them. He sold them very cheap, as he did not know

Why does a man look into his pipe. Answer Because he cannot look out of it.

I
Come all you handsome comely maids
That live in lovely Grin.
And noble gallant hearted sons.
That's always upright beaning.
your another kind indulgence too,
And fathers honest cheerless
Relations friends and neighbours too.
And maidens true and fearless.
II
There's news abroad as well you know
In eveny hill and valley,
From Dublin town to Ballyhaise
In every lane and alley
But the finest news I have every heard
I heard it very lately.
And when I make it known to you
I'm sure it will please you greatly.
III
It's nothing more or less indeed.
Than that a high bred lady
Who lives all in Corgariff lands.
With all it's shades so glady.
Has panted from oursea. Luthers chains
And fatsifying teaches,

Who all who proved so kind,
And likewise to the blooming girl,
I now must leave behind
Any may the blood that freely flows
Within her veins run shaill
For if I have proved false,
To my own sweet heard
She is the pride of sweet Redhills.
V
So the big ships lofty sails one set
And soon she leaves the bay
To steer her coarse,
With rapid force
To the land so far away.
And when green Ireland,
Leaves my view,
My eyes with tears will fill to my native and I'll bid adieu
And the youths around sweet
Redhills.

To guide my slender quill
I array the claim,
To sound the praise,
If the youths of sweet Redhills.
II
Cavan town of high renown
It's credits I'll enfold
Beeturbet town and Clones
Their credits I'll uphold
And straight away through Ballybay
To Shercock and Costehill,
My voice I'll raise
To sound the praise,
Of the youths of sweet Reelhills
III
With grief I now recall to mind
Each well remembered scene
The harvest mirth,
The Xmas glee
And the dances on the green
The pleasant shades of Clovenhill,
Where the birds sing loud and shrill
And the give with whom,
I used to ram
Around sporting sweet Redhlls.
IV
Farewell to the Killoughten boys,

I
Young men I pray and maidens gay,
Unite both one and all,
A noble land of youths so grand.
Their actions I recall
Such brilliant music will not refuse,

Like Blutcher going to France,
With their caravans melodious,
Played so graceful died advance.The above poem relates to the attempted eviction of Francis Lawlor for non-payment of rent. It tells how the neightbours of the downland successfully resisted against Saunderson to rout him out. Saunderson was the Landlord

I now exert my skill,
He is noble Francis Rawbor
From the shades of Cloverhill,
VII
Their glittering weapons to behold
Were wavering in the air,
Our foes they were confounded
They sank beneath despair,
Great acclamations reached the skies,
With voices that were shrill
To defend brave noble hawbor
The pride of Cloverhill
VIII
I dont care who is offended
At these few and simple lines
It is well known that Jama noble lord,
Although in deep disguise
My intellect has fled from me,
And I can say no more
May the poet bright still gain delight
All round the Shamrock shore
VIIII
Seven hundred was the number
That assembled at one call
Out foes they were confounded
They did not know what to do at all,
Like Boys (they) troops they did appear

That hawbor did Command,
She never would fail to grant repeal
To noble valiant Dan.
IV
Here is a health to the Killalandrick boys.
Their number it was great,
Likewise the Killafanna boys.
Its on us they did wait,
Kellogh and Mullalohes,
They assembled at one call,
For to free brave noble hawbor
From those persectited laws
V
The cuckoo fled the forest,
No more she shall be seen,
The lauree fades its branches.
No more to clothe in green,
The thrush and royal blackbird
In greed remaining still,
They look their flight no more to light
Near famous Cloverhill.
VI
He was still inclined to help the blind,
The hungry for to feed
And for to clothe the naked,
All in the time of need
And for to state in praises great,

I
You genus of this nation,
And you poets of this globe
I hope you will pay attention
To those lines I do unfold.
Concerring sons of Irish Pat,
The truth for to reveal
That did agree in loyalty
Like sons of Gramuail
II
It been on the 30th of December
In the year of '42
As I did rove through silent groves
Some pleasure for to see.
In a silent shade where I sat down,
For to employ my quill,
For to praise that splendid meeting,
That I saw near Cloverhill,
III
This glorious sight did one invite
Their praises to make known
The lofty dale was over spread,
So were the verdant plains
Had out glorious queen that meeting seen

All say that they have seen lights passing from one window to another and this has happened at different times during the night.
Many years ago a woman who lived in this house on returning from the (vial) village after having spent the day in blones fair was crossing a stile which led to her home was found dead in the stream close to the still and her hands badly gnawed as by her rats
Whether this occurrence has anything to do with the lights, or has not it is locally believed that the pot woman spirit visits her home at night.

Not far from the (viall) village of Redhills there is a farm on which stands a very find two stoved slated dwelling house. The house is built on a high hill over looking the road. Several people who have had occasion to pass this house at night

known as the "march" where the crack gaelic foutball teams of Monaghen, Cavan, and Femanagh used to meet forty years afo. Inside the enclosed area are two large tomb stones where the Druidic priests are intonned close on two thousand years ago.

circumference. On the South side are huge blocks of stones lying horizontally and partly covered with lichen and shrubbery. On the northern side the blocks are perpendicular. Some of them measure nine feet by five feet. How so use blocks of stones have been conveyed to such a high summit no one can tell, but tradition has it that they came from the bed of the Finn river at the new bridge about a quarter of a mile away.
Great deal of interesting features have been removed from the temple at Warrlebridge by the hammer of the road man and others fellows in pursuit of a well faced coin. From this summit a magnificent view can be obtained on the surrounding counties. Just across the valley stands the ancient grace yard of Drumully, while underneath it the plain locally

The great Druids circle at Warrlebridge Co Fermanagh is (probably) probably one of the most interesting features left to us of ancient Ireland. It is situated on the top of a loft hill over looking upper Lough Arne and about two and a half miles from the village of Pledhills. If consists of an enclosed fort about two hundred yards in

plainly see the track where the crock had stood.
he was thus left without either money or house and much poorer than when he had started

in succession and on the third night he dreamt that a man would come to him and direct how to unearth the treasure.
At the appointed time the man came and warned him not to tell a human being or not to seek assistance from anyone to do the work. He promised faithfully not to dirrilge the secret.
On the following day he proceeded to work. In order to get the flag lifted he had to knock the end out of the house. When it was ready to be lifted he could not do it himself.
At the end of a week he had one corner raised a little bit. One day while he was still struggling his daughter came to him and he asked her to put a small stone under the corner of the flag which he had raised. She obeyed and the stone broke in pieces. When the flag was cleared away he could

There was a man living in Aughadreema names Robert Cleaks. He was the father of twenty one children. He was poor and he had a small farm.
As the family grew up they went to foreign lands to labour for themselves and earn a living. See emigrated except on girl who remained at home. When they were some time away they stopped assisting their parents by not sending them some of their wages. Mt Cleaks was an old man and he was not able to work very much and eventually got poorer
One night he had a dream. He dreamt there was a crock of gold under a stone in one of the walls of the house but he did not know what wall. He dreamt about this treasure three nights

away and Barney began to plough but the horses would not go an he sat down and a man passed with two horses. They exchanged each others horses and the man gave Barney twenty pounds. Then he ploughed the bit the dog had run over. The master came out and seeing what Barney had done grew very angry but when Barney asked him was he angry he said "no." The master and mistress consulted about getting rid of the boy. She said she would get up on a tree and shout Cuckoo. She did this next morning when Barney was at his breakfast. He got his gun and shot the mistress. The master came down out of the room and Barney asked him was he angry. "I am" says he and Barney cut off his master's ears. He got thirty pounds of him and went home to his brother and they lived happy ever after

put his head in on the door and said, "Have you not the corn threshed yet"? "No" said Barney "it will take me another few days" Next day Barney did the same and the third day the master peeps in and says, "have you not that threshed yet" and getting suspicious asked him was he not hungry. "No" says Barney 'I sent in a few bags of corn and got some provisions." "What" says the master "is it selling my corn you are"? and says Barney "I hope you are not angry" The master remembering the bargain said "No". Next day the master told him to get the two horses and plough all the land his dog would go over. The dog ran up one ridge and down another. Barney lifted his spade and killed the dog "you villion" said the master "I hope you are not angry" "No" said he. The master went

here and I'll fo to hire" (Barney)
Barney started out and walked for three days out and walked for three days and three nights and travelled into the same country as his brother, and met the same amn. The man told him he wanted a work boy. He hired on the same terms as his brother. They (st) went to the house and Barney got a good supper and went to bed. Next morning the master told Barney to thresh the corn that was in the farm, and when he would be finished to come up for his breakfast.
Barney went down and began to thresh and he filled up bags of corn and sent them to town with a boy and told him to bring home some provisions. Barney got the provisions and he cooked a good breakfast eat his dinner also when it was time
In the evening the master

threshed yet" Mickie was about vexed where he thought of his terms and he said, 'no' That night he went to bed without breakfast, dinner or tea and he rose fresh and fast next morning and threshed all that day again and the master peeped in and said "Have you not that threshed yet." Mick went to hit him with the flail and the master says to him, 'I hope you are not vexed" "of coarse I am" said Mick "how do you expect a man to work without food"?
"Get down on your knees says the master until I cut your ears off" Mick had to get down on his knees and his master cut his ears off. Poor Mick then went home to his brother and told him all that happened. "You poor fool" said Barney "you are too soft" "stay

him he was looking for a work boy. Mickie told him he would have to go when the Cuckoo sings: The man said 'all right' and while you are with me if you get angry with me I will cut your ears off and if I get angry with you, you will cut my ears off.
He went with the man and that night he went to bed and next morning the master says to him go down to that barn along the road. There is a small quantity of corn in it and when you have it done come up for your breakfast. Mick went down and when he looked in the barn was full of corn. He started to thresh and he threshed away without getting anything to eat. When evening came the master peeped in and said "Mickie have you not that

There lived once two brothers named Barney and Mick on a small farm in Shannow Wood. The land was that poor a decent crow could not live on it so one night Mickie says to Barney. "I will go out and here for the Winter as there wont be much work to be done here." "Well" says Barney "be sure and dont hire longer than the Cuckoo sings as you will have to help me to put in the corn."
Mickie started out and he travelled for three days and three nights till he got into a strange country and met a strange man. He told the man he was looking for here and the man told

There was a man living in Ballyhaise who owned a large estate, He was known as

behind him on the horse.
Where- upon for Pat, calling to his aid that great power which priests alone can wield, Straightway banished the ghost and then confined her to a small lonely island in the lake. She has never been seen on the road since but often in the Summer time her sorrowful wails are wafted on the cool evening breeze to the ears of trembling and astonished fishermen.

one of those rows Mrs Lyttle was found lying at the foot of the stairs dead.
At first is was supposed she had fallen down the stairs but in years after an old servant who had witnessed the row confessed that Mrs Lyttle's husband threw her down. For years after her death she was seen walking the Killafana road and the people were so terrified they would go miles round sooner than go that way.
One winters night Pat Reilly got a call to attend a sick person in Drumgorry. To get there he had to go through Killafana on horse-back. When passing a certain part of the road opposite Killalandrick lake the horse suddenly stopped and on looking round to find the cause for Pat saw that Mrs (Lyttle) Lyttle was

About seventy years ago there lived in the downland of Raihmulligan, a man and his wife (whose) named Lyttle Both of them occasionally drank to excess and often quarrelled
One night after

he was aware that a black dog was sitting on the cat.
He drove on as if nothing had occurred and the black dog kept him company. He arrived home about one o'clock and on reaching his disturation he could find no trace of his companion.

one of the wagon gave a sudden move and he was pinned between them. Men ran to his assistance but he was dead when he was released
His remains were conveyed home on a ridecar drawn by a horse.
There was a place in the centre of the car called the well which used to hold feeding - stuff for the horse when on a long journey.
As the parvey. was returning home the did of the well was hoisted up and thrown on the road. The driver got down and lifted it and left it in the same position.
He had proceeded only a few years when it was thrown off again. He defended to lift it and when he looked up

One upon a time there was a railway porter working at Ballyhaise Station. He was a native of Redhills and he used to come home every night.
This evening he was hooking wagons together. He went between two wagons and as he was going in,

he left the boot and hammer being him but poor old Joe got no crock of gold and when he looked round the cow had calved.

Redhills. He lived all alone on a snug little farm.
It happened that in the month of June he had an old cow that he was watching to calve. One night he got up about twelve o'clock to look at the cow that was grazing a few fields from the house.
When he reached the top of the hill he heard the tick tack of a hammer down at the foot of the hill. On going down cautiously he saw a very small man about two feet high mending a tiny pair of shoes. Creeping up softly being him he asked where was there a crock of gold.
The leprauchan answered him saying "do you see that white thorn bush." Joe looked round to see the bush and on looking back the leprauchan had disappeared in such haste that

shore and the other went to the island.
After this occurrence the corpses were brought to the graveyard in a boat until a new bridge was erected thus making it easy for traffic to cross to the island.
It is also asserted that in this graveyard there was a monastry where the monks lived.

to the flag and went over to the island.
It remained there until the people came back and then it returned to the shore and when it's passengers disembarked it sank under the water
This work was carried throughout many years until one day a young boy and girl came in search of the flag to go for a trip. Of coarse this flag was not used for anything only carrying corpses.
The flag appeared about the water and they got on board. When the flag was well on it's way to the island it is said that is disappeared below the water and it's occupants were lost.
Many more people say that the flag was spilt across in two halves and one half went to the

In a district called Galoon near Newtownbutler there is a small lake. There is an island in the lake and a graveyard is situated in the centre of an island in the lake. It was here that the dead of ancient times were buried and even to the present day many people are interned.
In olden times they had no road across to the island save only for a large flag which used to sail on the water. It used to remain under the water at the shore
When it was required to bung over a corpse it used to come over the water of its own accord. Then the corpse was laid on it and whatever people wanted to go across to the graveyard got on

to Heaven because he got that one Mass said and that otherwise it would be the Day of Judgement before he would get to Heaven if he hadn't of got it said.
This priest was dead one hundred years and he couldn't get to heaven for one Mass he didn't say when he was alive. This strange thing occurred in Killoughter one hundred years ago.

anyone in the church who would serve mass for him. The man was that much frightened that he never spoke a word at all.
The next day when the church was opened the man got out and went home and told the neighbours round about what he saw That night all the neighbours gathered around the church and at twelve o'clock they all went in.
The priest came out on the altar and as usual asked the same question, was there anyone to serve Mass for him. Two of the people walked up and one of them served Mass for him. When he had it finished he turned round to the congregation and said that he was for one hundred years coming every night to say that one Mass and that he could find no one to serve it for him. He also that he would go straight

This is a story which I heard my father telling.
About one hundred years ago there lived in Killoughte a man who used to go to the church every evening to say his prayers. On this particular evening he went as usual and about six oclock the sexton closed it, and this man was accidentally closed in. Fearing nothing he knelt down and prayed away.
It wasn't very long until he fell asleep and about twelve oclock he woke up. When he woke the altar was lit up with candles and in a few minutes a priest walked out dressed in robes.
All at once he shouted out was there

and died. Then all knew that this was the spirit that had been scalded by the woman, and they carried the dead lamb out reverently, and buried it deep in the earth. Every night at the same hour it walked again into the house, and lay down, moaned, and died, and after this had happened many times, the priest was sent for . By the strength of his exorcism,the spirit of the dead was laid to rest; the black lamb appeared no more. Neither was the body of the dead lamb found in the grave when they searched for it, though it had been laid by their own hands deep in the earth and covered with clay.

It is a custom among the people, when throwing away water at night, to cry out in a loud cry "Take care of the water," of literally from the Irish, "Away with yourself from the water" - For they say that the spirits of the dead last buried are then wandering about and it would be dangerous if it fell on them.
One night a woman suddenly threw out a pail of boiling water without thinking go the warning words. Instantly a cry was heard as if a person in pain, but no one was seen. Between the next night a black lamb entered the house having its back all scalded and it lay down moaning by the hearth

Once upon a time there was an old man named Joe Kellegher who lived in Drunakeenan near

There was a man named Little who lived in Killabandrick. He had a very large stock of milch cows. He noticed that the cows were failing in their milk for one cow newly calved was practically gone day.
He suspected some evil influence Every night when he would go to milk a

to the gap at the time appointed and as the horses drew near he lost all power of himself and the horses drove on leaving him to go home as he had come.

One day my Daddy was kicking football in a fired. He left his boots in a cock of hay. That night as he as coming home he went in to get his boots. When he went in he couldn't get out. He stopped there for a good while and at last he got out. The pope said he walked on a "stray sod". It is said you should turn your coat and you will find your way again.

In a garden at the back of Main St., Bailieboro a gun and a bayonet were found. The garden was lately bought by the County Council, and a trench was dug alongside it for the Sewage Scheme. When the men were digging the trench they found them. The man that found them is James Argue Curkish, Bailieboro. They are now in charge of the guards; Barracks. It probably belonged to the Fenians of '64 o to the Rebellion of '98. These things were found during the summer of 1938.

About eighty years ago there was a Mass Rock situated about two and a half miles outside Bailieboro in the downland of Lisball and in the glen of Dundragon at the back of a big hill. The altar is still marked with a big rock and there is a little iron cross. The priest was killed and he saying Mass there. The track of the priest's feet was still marked until ten or eleven years ago.

Once when men were digging potatoes near a fort it was coming near dark and they had to gather them before night. The man were sitting in the field taking their tea and three fairies dressed in red came out from the fort and picked some of the potatoes and went back into the fort again. The men were frightened and went back to gather the potatoes, but when they went back the potatoes were all there.

One time a man dies. Every night he was seen at an old house that was knocked down. One night a gipsy passed and he asked the dead man what was wrong with him or could he do anything for him. The dead man spoke and said he was in Purgatory and he wanted one Mass said for him before he could be saved. The gipsy went into the town next day and told the priest of A Mass was said for him and he was never seen after.

There was a man and he dreamt three nights after other where there was a crock of gold buried under a tree. On the third night he got up to dig for it, and his wife asked him where he was going and he told her. When he went out he did not know what tree it was under because he had told someone else.

There was a woman named Brian Clarke, Diomore, Baibiboro, and every morning she went to the well she got a half crown. Then she told someone and she never got it after.

And you'll forget the days we met
When roaming round the mill.
And the time I used to watch you
Coming down by Garrett's Hill."
V
He says "dear Anne, I am not the man,
That would prove so unkind And when I'm in America I'll think of you behind.
And when your passage I will pay
You will come with might good will
And bid farewell to all your friends
Round lovely Garrett's hill."

III
He says "dear Anne give me your hand
We'll trust in God on high
He'll spare us for a longer day,
Out fortune for to try.
And when your passage I will pay,
You will come with might good will,
And bid farewell to all your friends
And lovely Garratt's Hill."
IV
She says "Now Tom when you go there,
Strange faces for to see,
You will go and court another maid
And think no more of me.

I
As I roved out one evening, I saw two lovers meet,
I strove a while to listen While he to her did say
"It's early in the month of March
I'm bound for America."
II
She says "Now Tom you are quite wrong
To leave the shamrock shore,
There's danger in America not like the days of yore,
For you might fall by a cannon ball
And that against your will
And never more return home to lovely Garrett's hill."

on the cock of hay. The ghost followed him up, and the man took out a pack of cards and asked the ghost would he join him and so he did. It was about two oclock in the morning when he got home and told his story. He next morning when his mother came up to waken him he was dead.

Once upon a time a man was very fond of playing cards. One night as he was coming home a man came out of a field and began walking with him. He said "Hello" but the ghost never said anything but walked on and never said a word. Every night the same thing would happen.
This night when he was coming home he met the same ghost but he went on his way and when he came to the crossroads he stood there and went into a field where he found a cock of hay. He went up

III
As I get up this morning I pray to God to save me until this night
May the Blessed Virgin save me by day and night.

I
There are four corners round my bed
There are four angels round my head,
Matthew, Mark, Luke and John God bless the bed that I be onII
As I went over that blessed and holy land,
I met the Blessed Virgin Mary.
Seven mass books in her hand Seven priests singing
Open the gates of Heaven And let the poor suffering souls in.

In the parish of Killenkere Co. Cavan an old fashioned sandal was found along with it was a branch of horns. The shoe is a couple of hundred years' old. It is the shape of a sandal and is all in one piece. The shoe is a hand made one. It is something like the pampootis they wear in Aran Islands.
This old shoe is in the possession of Mr. P.J. Gaymor Anne St; Bailiboro

III
While around its lovely valleys
You'll see nature at its best
With some gay younglads and lassies coming there to take a rest
You'll always find true lovers there No matter what they say
And if you want a sweetheart Just call around the
Lough- In-Lea
IV
You will find some charming damsels
Just blooming in their teen's and if that dont suit the visitor
There are a few "has beens" You must gently pop the question But dont make such delay For buisness is a pleasure

III
While around its lovely valleys
You'll see nature at its best
With some gay younglads and lassies coming there to take a rest
You'll always find true lovers there No matter what they say
And if you want a sweetheart Just call around the
Lough- In-Lea

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You may talk of Limerick city
And the giants Causeway too
The vale of sweet Avoca
And the river Shannonsview
The lakes around Killarney
And the scenes around Galway Bay
Are only simple-places
When compared to Laugh-In-Lea.
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From its lofty elevation
The scenes are something grand.
You can see the hill of Tara
And all round to Lavey Stand
The ships in Dundalk Harbour
And them bathing out at Bray
And the hills of Commemare
From the top of the
Lough-In-Lea

Two people call a side and one of the sides goes to one side of the room and everybody gets a partner and while everybody repeats the rhyme two pairs walk up and down the room:
The grand old Duke of Yorth.
He had so many men.
He marched them up to the hill
And he marched them down again,
And when you're up you're up.
And when you're down you're down,

boot will you give me for this horse?" which meant what swop would the other man make.
6. "Jick" is an expression commonly used which mean credit, as "I got it on tick."
7. Another slang word used in trading was can't, and sometimes if a man offered twenty pounds for an animal he would say "I'll give you five pounds a leg.

There are several different versions of the wreck of the Joseph Howe in Bere Island. Here is one which I heard from my father.
On the eighteenth of last February,
Just by the break of day,
As I wrose and put on my clothes,
To the sea I made my way.
When coming to a seaside cliff
I spied an awful scene
Dashing on the rocks below
Lay a large Lrigantine
with little hesitation

The chief mates was Peter Simon
A kind good natured man
The other was a seaman
And his name was Harry Gran.

in Loughlinstown by the name Patrick Kelly who was known to mow one acre from morning till nigh.

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Riddle: Why does a man cross a road.
Solution: To get to the other side
Riddle: What is the nosiest thing in the world.
Solution: A candle because it wakes the dead
Riddle: What goes up when the rain comes down.
Solution: An umbrella.
Riddle: How many ladders would reach the moon.
Solution: One if it was long enough

held-door and she did not know what to do. She told the guards and they seized it and sold it to a man twenty or thirty miles away and although he was locked in very in a stable still he came back looking half-door. The lad went to the fort and put back the scraw in its place. He heard the voice say that if they went to Susie the Spruggers" and take a fistful of straw from over the door and burn it under the mules nose to see what will happen. Meanwhile a neighbour had borrowed the mule and was at the mill. The boy got the bit of straw from over the door of Susie's and burned it under his nose on a shovel. What happened? The mule he shook off his harness and ran him (home) and when he reached home took the form of a man. It was the man who had disappeared in the fort that had been turned into a mule.

Once there was a man who went to town to buy a spade. When he was in town he met with company and he had a few drinks. On his way home he had to pass by a fort and as he was going by he went in to dig a scraw and he wasn't seen after that. He wife grew worried and the people told her that they saw going into the fort but did not see him coming out.
This woman knew of a two sighted woman and she went to her. This woman told her that if she picked three leaves off the lone bush at the rock and three leaves of clovers and a naggin of asses milk and that if she boiled them together and gave it to her eldest son and gave it to her eldest son and send him to the fort then to put back the scraw.
Meanwhile there was always a mule looking in across the

About twenty years ago my father was coming home from rambling and while coming across some fields he saw an old lady dressed in white. This old lady had died a few years before and was seen near her house. When he saw her he ran until he came to the house and he never went out rambling late again.

awful speed and on coming to the river jumped it. The man was so surprised that he shouted "What ever about the bullocks the heifer was great it" and immediately he fell off the heifer and the rest went on. It took him about three days to find his way home. Cattle could never be left there again.

Seel heels copper toes upon my word it would frighten the crows? A gun
How many feet has forty sheep a shepherd and his dog. Two feet
A white little man with a red little nose the longer he lives the shorter he grows? A candle.
A man was going to a market with a creel of geese. He met a buyer on the road who asked him how much did he want for a 100 geese. He said he hadn't 100 or had a hundred. But if he had as much more and half as much more and one and half he would have a hundred
How many geese had he? 30 geese
Why is a dog's tail like a swan's bosom. Because it grows down.
When a boy falls what does he fall against
Against his will.
What has but one eye and a long tail which she let fly. A needle with a thread.

In marble walls as white as milk lined with skin as soft as silk. Within a fountain crystal clear. A golden apple doth appear. No doors there are to this stronghold. Yet thieves break in and steal the gold. An egg.
On what day of the year does a woman talk last. The shortest day
Round as a biscuit busy as a bee prettiest little thing ever you did see. A watch.
What thing is the swiftest. Though.
A tree with twelve branches and on each branch four nests in each nest seven eggs and each egg has a name.
The year the months and the weeks and the days.
Its neither inside not outside and it shows light to a house. A window.
What is always going and never walks
A block.
Why is a sow like a mail car
Because she carries letters

Why is your nose like Vin civility?
Because it is between two eyes.
What is the last remedy for a smoky chimneys? Putting the fire out.
What is the smallest bridge in the world
The bridge of your nose.
Two a's two R's two M's and A.G. put them together and spell them for me? Grammar.
Black within black without nice things go in and nice things comes out. An oven.
Its neither inside or outside and it shows light to a house. A window.
What is the smallest room in the world
A mushroom.
What is it that is neither flesh nor bone but has four fingers and a thumb A glove.
The man that made it did not use it and them and that used it did not know it.
A coffin.

Because it is dripping.
A lazy face a hard working father; 12 little children all the same colour? A clock.
If a shovel and the poker costs 2/6 what will a ton of coal come to. Ashes
Why is a dog like a tree.
Because both lose their bark when dead.
I was going up a hill; I met a car. There were two white men and a black man. If the two white men eat the black man what the number of the car. 281.
How long did Cain hate his brother.
As long has he was (Abel).
What country would a hungry man relish
Turkey.
What word of five letters has only one left when you take two. Stone.
Spell enemy in three letters. N.M.E.

ball can climb the church, over steeple and all. The sun.
There were two boys and they were born in March and their birthday was in September one of them was twenty and the other was twenty two. One of them married his mother and the other dyed an old main.
March is a town in Italy. One of them was twenty and the other was twenty also.
One of them became a priest and he married his mother and the other boy became a father and he dyed an old maid's hair.
What grows and ripens and never gets green. A mushroom.
Two legs sitting on three legs and looking at one leg in comes four legs snatches away one leg. Up jumps two legs fires three legs and brings back one leg.
A butcher sitting on a three legged stool and looking at a leg of lamb in comes a dog and snatches the leg of lamb and the butcher gets up and fires the stool after him and brings back the leg of lamb.
Why is a wet umbrella like fat.

bigger it gets. A hole
As round as an apple as flat as a pan one side a woman and the other side a man. A penny.
As round as an apple as deep as a cup and all the men in Derry would not lift it up. A well.
As I went out the guttery gap I met my uncle Today I snapped off his cap and drank his blood and left him lying easy. A bottle of whiskey.
Little Jenny Huddle sitting in a puddle with a green gown and a white petticoat of rush.
What goes round the wood and round the wood and never going into the wood.
The Bark of a tree.
Humpty Dumpty sat on the wall Humpty Dumpty got a great fall all the king's horses and all the king's men could not put Humpty Dumpty together again An egg
As round as an apple as plump as a

Up Chip Cherry down Chip Cherry all the men in Derry would not catch Chip Cherry Smoke.
Its deep and its damp and its green above the bank and its fit for the lord and lady. A Grave.
Twenty sheep went out a gap twenty more followed that six seven twice eleven three and two. How many are that? Five.
As I went to London I saw a great wonder twenty- four Wildcats tearing the ground asunder. A harrow.
Its the begenning of eternity and the end of every place. Its the beginning of end and the end of time and space Letter E.
How far does a person go into a wood when he turns out. Half way.
Whats under the fire and over the fire and never touches the fire.
A cake in an oven.
The more you take out of it the

Under the fire and over the fire and never touches the fire. A cake in an oven
As I sat on my hunkers and looked through my winkers I saw the dead burying the live
A woman raking the fire
Ink, ank under the bank ten drawing four
A woman milking a cow.
Round the house and round the house and all heads down
Tacks in shoes.
Long legged father big body mother three little children as black as each other
A pot and pot-hooks.
Little Jenny Huddle sitting in a puddle with a green gown and a white petticoat
a rush.
Patches upon patches and no stitch in it riddle me that and I'll buy a new breeches for you. A cabbage head.
Its white and black and read all over
A newspaper.
In between two woods and out between two waters. A person with two buckets of water

When he returned to take away the pot of gold the field was full of sticks similar to the one he stuck. So he got no gold.
In another farm in Deechomade owned by Roddy Gormley there is a fort and quite near it was a well. A woman came one day to this well and washed her stockings in it. The well had vanished the next day and a new well sprung up six hundred yards away

Brennan who taught in Carrowneagh about thirty years ago went up to the fort to eat their lunch and saw a small little man dressed in red and sitting on a stone. He held a knife in his hand which he pointed at the boy Gammon. The boys ran down to the school as quickly as they could and told the teacher.
There is another fort on McDonagh's land which is on the opposite side of the river and to the back of the school and there was a well beside it. The owner of the well would not allow the neighbours to get water from it. The well changed down to the side of the road and there it is to the present day.
There is a fort present day. land in Deechomade and a man named Pat Gallagher was one day minding cows. He say down in the fort to smoke when he stood he saw a pot of gold beside him. He stuck a stick in the ground beside the pot of gold and ran off to drive away the cows which were thieving

them but was one short of the number. He counted them again and was one short still. He went in search of the lost one as he though and searched for quite a while. He went back again and counted them again and still there was one missing. "Well," says he "I'll count them again. He did and he had them all. From the fort he heard laughing and shouting and a voice saying "You fool! You fool."
There was also a man working in a field near this fort and on the mound he saw a little boy sitting under a lonely bush which is growing on it. He wore a brown suit and was very tiny. The man went towards him but had to go into a dyke to get across but when he het up and looked again the little fellow was gon.
This fort that is in Carrowneagh has another story connected with it. Two school children Patrick Coen and Micheal Gannon pupils of a Mr.

There are three raths in the vicinity of the school. They are called by the name of "forts."
One of them is in the downland of Carrowreagh and in the parish Cluanaghill and this is the one that is the nearest to the school. It is on Peter O Brien's field.
The other one is in the downland of Carrowkeel and in the parish of Ballymote and is on Mrs Mc Donagh farm.
While the third is in the downland of Cloonkeavy and also in the parish of Ballmote, and is on Tom Muldoon's farm.
By standing on one the other two are visible. They are circular in shape and surrounded by a fence of earth. There are no caves or holes in the centre or elsewhere About a hundred years this for was owned by a man named Bill O'Dowd. He had a number of sheep grazing in a field nearby the fort. This night after coming from rambling he went out to count them. He counted

Mc Donagh Rennorogue Bunninadden has this cure. Her grandmother left it before she died to her. She is aged about 15 and lives at Rinarogue Bunninadden.
The cure for a Sore Throat
The cure for a sore throat is to warm salt and put it in a stocking and put it to the neck.
Cure for Rheumatism
The cure for rheumatism is to bathe the spot where the pain is in water that potatoes were boiled in. Another cure for it is to rub paraffin oil on the pain and it will cure it
Cure for a Burn
The cure for a burn is to get the green stuff off the top of a bog hole and put it on the burn as a plaster. Another cure to prevent blisters rising is to put on some baking soda.

a hollow in it and water in this hollow and wash the warts nine times in it and say Water Water are off these warts." If they were looking for it it would not remove them.
Cure for a cut
The cure for a cut is an herb called cumfree. It is pulled by the roots The root is like a potato. This is washed well and the skin is scraped, off it. Then it is grated finely and put to the cut. This is a very good cure.
Cure for the Head Fever
The boy or girl who has the cure for the Head Fever measures the person's head suffering from it three times, first from the top of the head to the top of the nose, next from the crown of the head to the chin, and from the back of the head to the top of the nose. The cure is given on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays. Miss Kathleen

If you are going along the road and that you meet a man with a white horse and tell him you want a cure for the whooping cough if he only tells you to give the sick child even a drink of water it will act as a cure.
Ring Worm.
The sevinth son of a family has the cure of this disease. The person with the Ring Worm goes to the house where the seventh son is on Tuesdays and Thursdays and he rubs his hands on the track and it cures it.
Mr Peter Burke of Spurtown has this cure. If he even takes a worm in his hand it will die.
Sty on the Eye
The cure for a sty on the eye is to pull nine thorns off a gooseberry bush and point eight of them at the eye and throw the ninth one over your right shoulder.
Cure for Warts.
The cure for warts is if a person with them came on a stone with

In olden times there were many cures and remedies for diseases in the district of Carrowreagh which is the parish of Cluangghill in the Barony of Corrran Co. Sligo.
There is a complaint common amongst children called Whooping Cough or Chin Cough. The following is a remedy for the disease and during the months of October and November 1937 this complaint was very common and the cure proved a success: To get the cure one had to go to the house where a ferrit is kept and feed it with milk and all it leaves after it is put into a bottle and brought it home with them and given it to the person suffering from the Whooping Cough. This milk is known as "Ferrit's Leavings" It is also said that if a child who has the Whooping Cough goes three times under an ass foal the child will not go into "kinks" i.e fits of Coughings.
Another belief is as follows

that time.

1. Why do it not matter if a beggar wants a very short coat? Because it will be long enough before he gets another.
2. Why is there nothing so modest as a watch? Because it is always running down its own worth.
3. Which travels faster, heat or cold? Heat, because you frequently catch cold.
4. What smells most in a chemists shop? The nose.
5. Why is a King like a book? Because he has pages.
6. What is the first thing you do when you fall into the sea? Get wet.
7. Why is the water of a fountain like the Prince of Wales? One is thrown into the air and the other is heir to the throne.
8. What relation is a child to its Father who is not its father's own son? His daughter
9. What has four legs and flies? Two birds
10. What does a artist like to draw first? His salary
11. Why is an egg like a colt? It is no use until broken in.
12. Why is a angry man like 59 minutes past 12? He is going to strike one.
13. Why is it wrong to speak of the number 288? Because it is too gross
14. What is the difference between a sailor in gaol and a blind man? One cannot go to sea and the

About the year 188 in the month of August there was a very big flood in this district. The morning was fine up till about one of two o clock. Then there came very heavy drownpours that felt plenty of high floods.
The hehannow- river over flowed and covered acres of land. There was a man named ellr. Burrows living in Lehannow, where ellr. Joyce resides now. In the evening he went for his cows to milk them. When he was bringing them across a wooden bridge, one of the cows missed her footing and slid into the river. She was carried off by the force of the water to the bridge at elloshand, and was held there in the eye of the bridge. When she was taken out she was dead.

other folk took a different view and brought the molar away with them. This gruesome operation was regarded as a "sure remedy" for toothache.
A "cure" for a stye on the eye was to rub the stye three times with each of three "fasting spittles" three mornings in succession in the name of the Trinity.
Other "cures" and "remedies" in local use are fairly common in the country in general.

toothache cured his malady in this way:- he picked up one of the skulls and extracted a molar from the jaws. In some cases it was regarded as sufficient to pluck out the molar with the fingers, but somepeople held that the sufferer would have to bite it out with his own teeth.
The sufferer then put the molar in his mouth and sucked it in the same manner as one would suck a sweet. Somepoeple held that the molar would have to be replaced in the jaws of the skull, but

There were numerous quaint "cures" and "remedies" in Bailieborough district in days gone by. There was a very strange 'cure" for toothache. The sufferer went to a cemetery where there was a newly opened grave awaiting a burial.
Around this grave are usually found the skulls and bones of person long years dead; these were removed from the gave in order to make room for the forthcoming burial, and they were out back into the grave when the burial took place. The one afflicted with

the back of the ditch "Tell Kitty Mulwidherick that Katty (Ml) Mulwhadherick is dead.
There was a cat sleeping in the corner near the fire place, and when Hynes related what he had heard, the cat jumped up, and, speaking like a human being, exclaimed: "Oh is poor Katty dead" She then jumped up on the (fire) crook over the fire place and disappeared up the chimney and was never seen again.

Many years ago there lived in a rural area an old man named Hynes whose abode whose abode lay on a small farm about six miles from Bailieborough.
He was returning home rather late one night and his path lay across the field. Suddenly a voice exclaimed from the back of a ditch- "Tell Kitty Mulwidtherick that Katty Mulwadtherick is dead."
When Hynes returned home he told his wide that when crossing "the paddock field" he heard a voice saying from

a house while building the house will fall within a week.

then called, for breaking a branch of a tree in Lisgar demesne.
The boy's mother cursed the castle and said that the sun would never shine on the hall door, and that a lark would never be heard singing about it.
Beside the castle is a stone, and it is said that the boy's head was split against it. In it is a hole and somepople say that the water in it will cure warts.
It is also said that the woman cursed the stone and that if it is put in

The last landlord around here was Sir John Young. His family was in this district for eighty two years (1813-1895).
They were always looked upon as good landlords and evictions rarely if ever took place.
The got the land from a man named Colonel Stewart. The previous landlord was called Hamilton who succeeded the original owner- Bailie
The land was divided into farms. it is said that a boy was hanged by Lord Lisgar as he was

The kind of (house) the light the old people had was candles.

Most of the houses in my district long ago were that- shed.
The people long ago would have a bed in the kitchen. This bed was called a settlebed, and was placed against the back wall. Most of the people had the fire against the gable wall.
The fronts of the chimneys long ago were made from stone and mortar. None of the people in my district remember houses without chimney.
Half-doors are common in my district nowadays. The floors long ago were made from clay and stones.

"It is better late than never."
"The elevnest person makes a mistake."

you will be dead next year."
"It is hard for an empty sack to stand upright"
"It is unlucky to look into a mirror after dark."
"It is unlucky to meet a black cat with white paws on the road."
"If you look through a window at a new moon you will break delph."
"If you see a straw hanging from a hen (your) there will come a stranger to the house"
"If a turf falls from the fire there is a stranger coming to the house"
"Each cloud has its silver lining"

would be none at all."
"April showers bring May flowers"
"There is no help or cure against death"
"It is hard to cut the wool of a goat."
"Life is better than all the money in this world"
"What the ear will not hear will not trouble the heart."
"If you break a looking glass you will have seven years bad luck."
If you kill a swallow you will have seven years bad luck.
If you are looking at the ground you hear the cuckoo

makes Jack a dull boy"
"Do your duty, leave the rest to God."
"Come day go day God send Sunday"
"One Magpie for bad luck."
"Two for (good) joy"
"Three for a girl"
"Four for a boy"
"Five for money"
"Six for gold."
"Seven for a secret that shall never be told"
"A wet and windy May fills the garden full of hay."
"A wet May and a dry June makes the farmer whistle a merry tune."
"Only for only the sky would fall, only for only there

"You cannot make a silk purse out of a sows ear."
"People that live in glass-houses should never throw stones."
"Make hay while the sun shines."
"The darkest hour is often before the dawn."
"A burned child dreads the fire"
"He who laughs last laughs longest."
"Two heads are better than one"
"Where there is a muck there is luck."
"Where there is a will there is a way."
"Agree for the law is costly"
"All is not gold the glitters."
""Al work and no play

"A stitch in time saves nine"
"A rolling stone gathers no moss"
"If the sky would fall we would all catch larks"
"If you stand in front of the fire you stand in front of the fire there will be storm"
"A person's mouth often broke his nose."
"It is a long road that has no turn"
"An empty can makes most noise"
"Jills are green far away"
"It is unlucky to look at the moon through a glass."
"If you see a magpie it is for sorrow."
"If you see two it is for joy."
"If you see three it is for wedding. "

be put on a griddle on the fire to bake.

In olden times bread was made from oats. The kind of bread that was made was oaten and boxty- bread. The way that they made oaten was this. They mixced the oaten meal with a little water, a little salt was added. Then it was put standing against a griddle in front of the fire to bake.
The boxty was made from potatoes. The potatoes were grated raw. Then they were put into a bag and boiled in a pot, on the fire. Then they would be taken out and made into small cakes.
Then the would

with their bread or potatoes in their hands and the buttermilk in bowls
Tea was first used in my district about one hundred years ago.

In olden times people took three meals a day, one in the morning, one at midday and the last one at four or five oclock. There was a saying that it was dangerous to take any meal going to bed.
The people nearby always worked before having any food. Potatoes were only eaten at midday and at the other meals, oaten bread was eaten.
Buttermilk was drunk at the midday meal
The old people never used a table but sat around the fire.

always eaten.
Tea was first introduced into this country about one hundred and twenty years ago.

Potatoes, and oaten meal were the chief foods which the people used long ago. The people generally took three meals a day when they could get it.
Those people would be out every morning working as soon as day light would appear.
Milk and water were the chief liquids used.
Generally the table would be placed in the middle of the floor.
Some people had hooks in the wall on which the table would be hung when not in use.
Oaten bread was

builds her nest in a hedge and the colour of her eggs is green.
The crow builds her nest in a high tree and the colour of her eggs is white.
The robin builds her nest in a mossy bank and the colour of her eggs is white with red dots.
it is said that the red spot on a robins breast is a drop of our Saviour's blood.

The names of the birds that I know are the blackbird, the thrush, the sparrow, the crow the robin, the wren, the cuckoo, the gold lunch, the bull flinch, the pigeon the tom-lit, the willie wag-tail the chaffimeh, the blue tit, and the swallow.
Each of these birds lay from three to eight eggs, except the wren which lays from fifteen to twenty. The thrush builds her nest in a high tree and the colour of her eggs is blush.
The blackbird (builds)

needle, thread and a sewing machine.

There are four tailors in my district namely Tom and Frank Rogers, Stanty Lynch and Mick Sullivan. These men do all their work at home, and none of them stock any cloth.
No shirts or stockings are made in the homes and none of them spin their own thread nor have their own spining wheel.
No special clothes are worn on any occasion except black at a wake and swallow tailed coats at weddings.
the impliment used by these tailors are a scissors, a thimble a

The height of our churn is three feet and the (with) width is two feet.

We have a churn at home. It is a very big churn and my father and I churn.
The colour of our churn is brown and there are hoops around it, to keep the wooden sides together. If a person comes in to our houses when we are churning my mammy tells them to churn, because if they did not take a dash, we would not have any luck on the butter.
When the butter is separated from the milk we know that the churning is finished.

The churning takes about half an hour to finish
The butter is lifted with two pieces of boards.
Buttermilk is used for making bread

Our churn at home is about five feet in height and two and a half in diameter.
The churn itself is shaped like a barrel and it is sitting on a wooden stool. We churn by turning a handle.
Butter is made in Summer, but some times when there is plenty of milk it is made in Winter.
The maid generally churns the milk but sometimes when strangers came in they help her.

and Eddie Morrow, in Anne St, about sixty years ago.
Soap and candles were made by Mr Small in the Villa.

Many industries were carried on in my district long ago, such as leather, crock, nail, can, spade, and plough making. Almost all these industries were carried on up to a few years ago.
The tannery was carried on (app to a few years ago) in a yard in Henry Street, and it was owned by a man named Mr Small.
Many big metal tubs which were used in the tannery can be seen around the house of Master Mc Intyre, our school maser.
Nail making was carried on by Pat Murphy

One side of it is covered with whin bushes while the other side is covered with weed. It is said that the old people used to live in these forts and that the trench around it was to keep out wild animals.

I know of only one fort around the town of Balieboro.
It is situated on the top of a hill about four or five hundred yards from the town in the downland of Landeragee.
It is called Carrall's fort because a man Carroll owns the field in which it is.
It is about twenty feet high and is about fifty feet in diameter. There is a dee[ tench around it also.

The usual thing now is this: -

In olden times the bread in my district was made of both wheat and oats. Flour was alway made in my district.
It was made with querns up to about fifty years ago. Just at that time a mill came into being in the district
Either butter milk or water was always added when making bread Long ago people made a shape in bread like this: -

Boots.
Some of the children nowadays wear no boots in the Summer months.

People began to wear boots at age of sixteen long ago. Children go barefoot to school in the Summer
The water which the blacksmiths use is very useful for chilblanes on the feet.
Boots are made in the Bailieboro Boot Factory and they are repaired by Mr Tommy Franey, Joe Mc Grinity and Miceal O' Byrne
Clogs a worn in my district to this day.
They are made by Dick Smyth, Australia Street Bailieboro.
There were plenty of people who never wore

Cag a Ballagh for the heroes of Kilann.

Monogham, Kileevan, and Bunse. Lavey, Laragh, Muff and Bawn.
And likewise Denn and Kill And bold Knockbrige she was the pride.
At the meeting of Cootehill.
There's a brilliant star in Kingscourt.
And a patriot of fame
And his name is Francis Bogarty
Long may this hero reign.
Its with his brake their rode a shake.
And it carried thirty one And the shout was

Arise you gallant Irishmen united like you stan. Look out about your lawful nights.
And Branish Cromwell's clan.
This enemy you plainly see will fight us still.
But on out lady's Day we'll show them play. At the meeting in Cootehill.
All the surrounding parish in spelendour they did go.
From Ballybay to

On a bright and stary night
A goat, she strayed around
She went to Davy Connells a testing place she found.
She wagged her tail as she crossed the wall
? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?
Be dad says she I'll show a tip to the police of Brausehall.

uncle sows are Kern Pinks, Champions, Arran Banners, and Northern Stars.

There are about ten acres of land under potatoes on my uncles farm My uncle employs four men during the potato (crop) season. About a month before the season comes in the ground is manured. All the potatoes on my uncles farm and in my district are sown in ridges. I never heard of uncle using wooden spades or wooden ploughs which my uncle uses are made of iron by Mr Corrie who has a foundry in Baibiboro.
The different kinds of potatoes which my

The potatoes that grow in my district are, The Champions, The Arran Bananes and the Kern pinks,

We have an acre and a half of potatoes growing on our farm every year. The ground is plouged and harrowed. Then the drukks are opened and the manure is put out. The seed is cut and then dropped eight or nine (feet) apart. When that is done the farmer comes along and closes them with a plough. Some people use drills and other ridges.
The people who use the ridges have to put them in with spades which are bought in shops. After a couple of months they are dug, gathered, and stored in a pit for the Winter.

is very thorny and long ago people used to come and visit it.

The largest lone white thorn bush in Ireland grew in Crocknahattina in a centre of a field. it belonged to the late Mick Cooney. Its branches covered a rood of ground. Many prominent people came from all parts of Ireland to see it. Unfortunately it was knocked down by a big windstorm about twelve years ago. The old people long ago used to believe that the fairies lived under neath its branches.
Many a wee man was seen there cobbling his shoes.
Another lone bush is situated in the district of Tory Bush. This bush is

which I play, namely, cards, boxing and hide and go seek.

I play many games both indoor and outdoor, the names of them being ludo, darts, draughts, trying to take siscpence out of a tub of water with my mouth, football and hurling.
The two I like best ate football and hurling.
The first four games mentioned above are indoor ones and the last two outdoor ones .
The outdoor games are played in the Summer, and the indoor ones are played in Winter.
Trying to take siscpenice out of a tub of water is never played only on Hallow Eve.
There are other games also

young and old began to weave the peculiar rush cross. Next day the crosses were blessed and hung up in the cow house.

The commonest farm animals, I know are the horse, the cow, the goat, the sheep and the pig. The cows have got no names.
When people are hunting the cows, they say "hush-hush" and when they are calling them they say "she she".
The cow house is called a byre. When the cows are in the field, the byre is cleaned. The cows are tied by the neck with a chain.
Long ago rushes were placed in the middle of the family who were gathered together, and

known as the priest's leap.

One time a priest was going on a long journey to a dying person As the journey was so long, and he being in so great a hurry, he asked the loan of a pony from a protestant man
While he was passing a huge cavern (80 ft wide by 100 ft long) an army of soldiers surrounded him, save the mouth of the cavern.
Just as they were about to kill him he and the horse rose across the cavern, to the opposite side and were saved.
It was surely a miracle indeed. This is

this well since then

In Drumenspie, there is a valley, where the priests said Mass long ago.
Beside the alter, there was a white-thorn bush under which was a holy well. In this well there was supposed to be many eures, and people came from all over the country to be cured from many diseases.
One day an old woman went down to the well and washed clothes in it. Next day when people went to it, the well was moved seven or eight yards from the hawthorn bush.
No cure was in

It is said that a well disappeared in the townland of Killann a couple of hundred years ago, because someone was in the habit of bringing water from it in dirty vessels. The well sprung up in another field not very far away. All the old natives are very particular about sending clean vessels to their wells for water since then.

About a mile outside Bailieboro there is a small road called Uncher Lane. On at the top of this lane there is a track of a giant's foot. It is said that a giant while throwing a stone left his tack in this stone. It is after this that Uncher got (his) it's name as Uncher in Irish means "a shot."

Other toys I make at home are barrows, paper boats, snares and carts.

A great pastime in my district is for boys and girls to make toys.
My favourite toy to make is a whip. When you make this toy, it is a custom to make a spinning top.
Another toy very often made in my district is a paper ball. When making this toy you gather about half a dozen sheets of paper and roll them firmly into a ball or so near to a round shape as you can. You then tie it firmly with a good strong cord.

The pumpguns are made by getting an old pump and by sawing the top of it Then a cork is put into the pump. Start pumping and the wind will blow out the cork.

The toys which I make are bows and arrows, catapults and pumpguns.
The bow is made by getting a piece of rubber Both ends of, both the rubber and stick are tied together like this
The arrow is just a piece of stick shaped like this
The catapults are made with a bit of wood and rubber. The wood has to be shaped like this
The rubber is tied to the forks of the wood like this

Here is a drawing of a paper boat.

Home made toys are very often made in my district.
The toys we make are catapults, snares, bats, whips, paper balls and paper boats.
The catapult is my favourite toy. It is made from the forked branch of a tree, with a bit of rubber attached.
The catapult has many uses, the chief of them being, for killing birds and for hunting crows from a potatoe field.
Here is a drawing go a catapult.

Ans. AN echo.
Ques. What is the thing that stands on one leg with it's heart in it's head?
Ans. A head of cabbage.

The shorter she grows
Ans. A candle burning
Ques. If I can't live, If I drink I die.
Ans. A fire.
Ques. What has four legs one foot and a head but cannot walk?
Ans. A bed.
Ques. What is it that people try to get, them try to get rid of?
ANs. An appetite.
Ques. What grows in the wood and sounds in the town, and earns its master many a pound?
Ans. A fiddle.
Ques. What goes around the wood and never touches the wood

windows in it as a Lord Mayor's house.
Ans. A timble
Ques. What has four legs and no feet?
Ans. A horse
Ques. What as four fingers a thumb and cannot hold an apple?
Ans. A glove.
Ques. What is black and white and red all over?
Ans: A newspaper
Ques: What foes in black and comes out white?
Ans: Coal in fire.
Ques: Little Nan Etticoat In a white petticoat And a red nose The longer she stands

What has three legs and cannot walk
Ans: A stool
Ques: I have a little house and it would not fit a mouse, and there's as many

shaking. When I came down with Tara hill all the ducks were quacking.
Ans: A sheaf of oats.
Ques: What has a foot and cannot stand.
Ans: A stocking.

As I went up yonder bray I saw a thing in a wish of hay. It was neither fish, flesh of bone, but I kept it until it walked alone.
ANs: An egg.
Ques: Middy, mody, round body, three feet and a wooden hat
Ans: A stool.
Ques: As I went up to Tara Hill, Tara hill was

puddings after it
Ans: A hen and a flock of chickens.

What goes round the house and round the house and sleeps in the corner at night.
Ans: A brush.
Ques: Six, seven, ten, eleven, three and two, how many is that.
Ans: five.
Ques: There are two pigs in a sty, when they get meat they roar and cry, when they get none how quite they by.
Ans: Two mill stones.
Ques: What goes round the wood, and leaves a white rag on every bush.
ANs: The snow.
Ques: What goes round the house and draws its

Ques. Long legs short ties wee head and no eyes.
Ans. Tongs.
Ques. What has one eye and can't see.
Ans. A needle.
Ques. Ink, ank, under the bank ten round four.
ANs. A man milking a cow.

and canon catch a spoonful
Ans. Smoke.

Ques. Why does a chimney smoke.?
Ans. Because it can't chaw.
Ques. What has teeth and can't eat.
Ans. A comb
Ques. What has a face and can't see.
Ques. A roomful a house ful

though a keyhole
Ques: What goes round the house and never enters it?
Ans: A path.

Ques: What has (a face_ eyes and cant see?
Ans: A blind man
Ques: What is the shyest thing in the world?
Ans: A block
Ques: What is the most uselessthing in the world
Ans: A glass eye looking

a woman and the other a man
Ans: An English Penny

Ques: What is full and still it will hold more
Ans: A pit of Potatoes
Ques: Londonderry, Cork, and Kerry spell me "that" without a "K"?
Ans: T-h-a-t.
Ques: As round as an apple as flat as a pan one side of it a

Ans: A Man

Ques: What stands out-side of the wood and eat inside?
Ans: A pig eating out of a trough.
Ques: Blackie and white went up the hill Blackie came back and Whity stood still.
Ans: A hen and a egg.
Ques: What fish does a lady like best
Ans: Herring
Ques: What lies on four feet in the morning goes on two feet in the day and comes one on three feet in the evening

Ques. What is too short and when you take a bet off it is big enough?

daisy
Ques. What foes round and round the house, and peeps in on every little hole?
Ans. The wind
Ques. What is the relationship between a postage stamp and a donkey?
Ans. One you stick with a lick, and the other you lick with a stick

Ques: What is nonsense?
Ans. A monkey hanging over a cliff tied to a

all round?
Ans. A bed
Ques. What goes up the ladder and down the ladder with its head down?
ANs. A nail in a man's boot.
Ques: What goes about from place to place and carries its house on it back?
Ans. A snail

What goes over the water and never touches the water?
Ans: An egg in a duck
Ques. How many sticks go to a crows nest?
Ans. None at all. They are all carried.
Ques. What is full of holes and holds water?
Ans. A sponge.
Ques What has four eggs, a head, a foot, and square

Ans : Because she can't lick it.

Ques: What does a stone get in the rain?
Ans : Wet
Ques : On what side of a mug is ther handle?
Ans : On the outside
Ques : What draws silent tears?
Ans : An onion
Ques : What is always behind time?
Ans : The back of a clock.
Quest : Long and narrow tin and tall causes many a man to fall
ANs : A gun
Ques : Why does a hen pick a pot?

Ans: Both are alway looking for a bite
Ques: humpty Dumpty sat on a wall humpty Dumpty got a great fall, All the kings and all the kings men could'nt put humpty dumpty together again?
Ans: An egg
Quest: What beats a good wife?
Ans: A bad husband

Ques: Why is a gaoler like a musician?
Ans. Because he fingers keys
Ques. What is the difference between an angler and a dunce?
Ans: One baits his hook and the other hates his books
Quest What is alike about a fisherman and a beggar?

many bad soles (souls) in it.

can't spell "that" your a dunce?
Ans. T-h-a-t
Ques. Why is a butterfly a very useful insect?
Ans. Because when you kill the fly you have the butter left.
Joke - First Man: Did you see the big list of people in the paper to day who stopped smoking
Second Man: No.
First Man: The list of deaths
Ques. Why does a train bring bad weather?
Ans. Because when you knock the head off you have rain
Ques. Why is a cobbler's shop like hell?
Ans. Because there are so

Question: Why are there so many dogs in bo. haven?
Answer: Because the county is shaped like a leg of mutton
Ques: How many (p's) peas in a barrel of apples?
Ans: Two (p's) peas.
Ques: Riddle me, Riddle me, rantd o, my father gave me seed to sow; the seed was black, and the ground was white; riddle me that and I'll give you my pipe?
Ans. Ink and paper.
Ques. Why is the letter "h" the biggest in the alphabet?
ANs/ Because it turns "a mouse into "a house"
Ques. constantinoble is a very big word it you

chimney down but can't come down the chimney up?
Ans An Umbrella
Ques: Why does a donkey eat thistles?
Ans : Because he is an ass
Ques: What is the difference between an aeroplane and a tree?
Ans: One sheds its leaves and the other leaves its shed

Ques: What foes throught the house and never touches it?
Ans: Music
Ques: It can go up the

your eye three times. After that bury the thorn, and in the night your eye will be better

Tootache: -
Wash the bought with salt and water or chew purified glauber salts.
Sore Throat -
Put roaster salt in a stocking and put it round your neck, going to bed.
Bachache: -
Put a plaster of pitch on your back
The Scald:-
Get a piece of flannel and butn it. Then break it in little pieces and put it to the scald.
Sore Eyes - Get nine gooseberry thorns and point them to your eye.
Get a thorn and bless

is to rub "gooseane" to it.
Mumps-
Drive the affected person round the pig sty three times with asses winkers on him and then he will be cured.
Go under an ass three times, then let him eat out of your hand
Nerves: -
Bath yourself in a holy well.
Whooping cough: -
Drink - holy water out of the bishop's skull.
Drink ferret's milk.
Boils: -
Put sugar, soap, and resin on them

to be blest Then the person affected would drink out of it and would cured in a few nights.
Drink holy water out of the bishop's skull. The bishop's skull is in possession of Mrs James Lynch, Maghera, Virginia. so bavan.
Sprains:
Terea Walsh of burkish, Bailieboro, Mrs O'Byrne of Thomas Street Bailieboro, and Mr. Eugene Lynch, Leiter Bailieboro has the cure of the sprain.
To cure the sprain the rub their hand on it and pray.
Another cure for the sprain

one part and bury the rest and then the wart will be gone in a night. Rub holy water in the warts for nine mornings fasting and on the ninenth morning the warts will be gone.
Chubblains-
The water inwhich the blacksmith cools his irons is good for these.
Chun-cough-
Let some milk on a saucer and let a ferret drink some of it. Then give the remainder to the sick person. A person would get a cup, a mig, or any other vessel to the priest

Warts-
If when walking along the road you see a hole in a stone with water in it, dip the wart in the water and it will get better. Leave a pin every morning in a hole in a stone for nine mornings, and at the end of the ninth morning the want will be gone. If you find a snail lift it up and rub it to the wart. Then hang it on a tree, and when the snail is withering the wart will be going away. Cut a potato into eight parts, rub each one on the wart then hide

The west
When the wind blows from the west.
The hens running into the field.
When the hills around are high and clear.
When it is threatening to rain and the sun passes the wind.
When there are not many stars visible at night
When the cows are scattered round the field.
A rainbow at night
When the moon is bright in the sky.

When an animal stands with its back to a ditch.
When a cat drinks water.
When ducks quack.Signs of God WeatherWhen the sky is red in the evening.
When the smoke of the chimney goes up perpendicularly at night.
When you see a red star in the evening.
When swallows fly high
A high and clear sky.
Blue clouds in the sky.
A heavy due in the morning
When the curfews whistle in

When cattle gather together
When bees fly home.
When swans are on a lake
When a donkey brays.
When you see a rainbow in the morning.
When a cats sits at the fire
When the sheep come down from the hills.
When the wind blows with a sound
When there is a blue flame in the fire.
When a person's corn get sore.
When the wind is coming from the east.

When you hear the curfew.
When the swallows fly low.
When there is a ring round the moon.
When you see soot falling from the chimney.
If rain comes with the moon it is going to bad weather for the quarter the moon is with us.
When a cat washes her face on a dry day.
When a dog eats grass.
When a cock crows on a nice day.
When you see goats high up on rocks.
When seagulls are flying high.

Docking Docking in and out.

There are many harmful weeds growing in out land, namely, the docking the ragweed, the dandelion, and the nettle. The docking is the most harmful of all, because it spreads all over the ground very quickly.
The dandelion is used for killing warts and the nettle is used for food for turkeys and ducks.
Somepeople say that the docking will cure the sting of a nettle if you say this rhyme -
Docking Docking in and out, Take the sting of the nettle out, If you dont, I'll cut your throat,

"Sure why would'nt he who he" has two of his sons in the Jesuits, says one of the missioners.

There was a parish priest who once held a missions which was given by the Jesuits Fathers, The parish priest had two chickens cooked for dinner, when he had to go on a sick call. So when he went the two Jesuit Fathers say down and ate the two chickens.
When evening came the priest and the two Jesuit Fathers were walking round the church and they saw a rooster and some hens stepping about. "I ant that rooster very proud looking I ant the walking very proudly" says the priest

One night a man was passing a quarry. Next moment he heard the sound of some chains rattling. He quickened his step, but the rattling seemed to follow him. He took courage, and on looking round saw nothing but an old ass with its drafts, dragging on the ground.

house, come on carts.

Traveling folk still go about and they often come to our house. They are the same people who went about years ago. Some of them are very poor, and they often ask for clothes.
The things they usually do sell are lases, pins tin cans and other things. They get a good sale for them in my district because they are very poor, and that is the only way they have for making money.
Some of them travel in vans, some on bicycles and others on carts. The ones that come to our

The only band whoese name I know is the McCanns. If the traveling folk do not know the way from one town to another they ask somebody in the town.

Traveling folk visit my home nearly every week of the year. They are the same traveling folk which visited at my father's home years ago. Some of these traveling folk are poor whilst others are not. The sell tin cans and other articles.
Some bands of traveling folk sleep in their carts along the roadside whilst other bands sleep in lodgings houses in this town.
They do not go singly but go in families. Nearly all the traveling folk I know fo around in carts or cavavans.

a dowry. After a wedding a feast is held in either the bride or bridegroom's house.
In other districts when the wedding couple and guests are coming from the church the guests ride a race on horseback, and the winner gets a bottle of whisky.

Marriages take place oftenest before Lent and Advent in my district. Some people say that it is unlucky to get married in the month of May, and that on week days Wednesday is the best.
Here is an old rhyme which is very often said before marriages -
Monday for wealth,
Tuesday for health,
Wednesday the best day of all,
Thursday for losses,
Friday for crosses,
And Saturday no luck at all.
After a marriage the wife's father gives either money livestock or an annual income to the bridegroom as

On Easter Sunday about four or five boys get their own eggs and a saucepan etc. and go out to a nice dry field and eat their duroog.

Shrove Tuesday which some-times is called "pancake Tuesday," falls on the day before Ash Wednesday.
Every person makes pancakes on this day, and sometimes a mother sends some of her children to a neighbour for the pancake sieve. When he arrives there he is told that somebody else has got it and maybe the child would travel for a couple of miles before he would find out that it was all a joke.
On St., Patrick's Day in out district everybody wears a Shamrock in his hat or coat in honour of this great Saint.

In our district we have a custom for almost every festival. On Christmas Eve almost everybody leaves a lighted candle in the win-dow, and a fire in the grate. It is sid that the Blessed Virgin will go round to every house that observes this custom.
In St Stephen's day big boys and small boys dress up and go round from house to house gathering money to bury the wren.
The big boys play fiddles and melodians and the little boys sing songs.

Ans: A grave.
Ques: What goes round the wood and round the wood, and sleeps on the wood at night?
Ans: The dishcloth.
Ques: It is neither within nor without, and it is of great use to the house.
Ans: The window.

My parents do not know any holy wells in out parish.
The nettles and dock leaves do most harm to the land.
They smother the crops and make the land poor.
The furze bushes are the hurtful plants that grow in poor lans
Tushes grows in wet land
Walecress is supplied to cure the mumpsIt is baked on a griddle and put to the jaw when it hot.
Nettles and dandelions are good for the blood.
People used make wine out of nettles and dandelions.
The flowers of furze and flaggers are used fro colouring cloth.

Weeds are: Thistles, nettles docket leaves, and chicken weed, and braiste.
The plants most hurtful to good land are thistles, nettles and docket leaves.
The plants hurtful to bad land are rushes and thistles.
The people never use herbs or weeds for food or they never use any herbs for colouring clothes.

People must be careful to keep the potatoes free of weeds.
The manure is cows manure and shop manure.
The spray is made of bluestone and line and hot water.
The potatoes are dug in autumn and put into pits.
Potatoe pits are made in the ground, by digging a hole in the ground and making each side of it hard with scraws.
The potatoes are covered in the pits with scraws and claws.
The names of potatoes that grow in this district are champions, lerpinks, Aran Victory and Irish Queens.

canons, main crop, queens, flounders, kerpinks, aranbanners, aranictors and roses.

People manure potatoes with farmyard manure and with artificial manure bought in the shops.
When the manure is put on, the potatoes are moulded with shovels
Then they are left there for a month and then the first spray is put on them.
Nothing is done with them for three more and hen, the second spray is put on them.
They are left there then until they are ready for digging and then they are dig with forks.
They are then put into a potatoe pit, the soil is first dug along the brinks between two potatoe ridges
Next it is carted up and then the potatoes are put into it and covered with straw or rushes or sedge and clay.
The potatoes are left there for a few months.
The names of potatoes are, champions red champions, white champions, epicures

pan.

First we weed the potatoe crop and then we mould them
We then spray them three times from the blight and then we dig them and store them i a pit. A pit is made by making a long hole with a spade and a shove two feet high and two feet wide.
The potatoes are stored in the pit and covered with straw and clay. They are left in the pit for five months.
Irish Queens, Kerrpinks, Leinster wonders, Early Roses, Dates, Sein Feins, Champions and Aran Bammersare the names of the potatoes we have. A potatoe cake is made from boiled potatoes with some flour and salt, they are all mixed together and put into a greased pan to bake, Borsty is made from raw potatoes They are first washed and peeled and grated, then mixed with flour, butter and salt and bread soda and then baked in an oven or in a

Paddy Collin sis a nice young man
He owns a piece of land,
He'd win the heart of young and old
His features are so grand.
John Kenny is a nice young man
He is both stout and strong,
He'd make a tear roll down your cheek
To hear him sing a song.
And to find the author of these lines
Which recently has been wrote,
He is a young apprentice known as the Leatro Poet.
He forms all these penals as he makes the circle round
For to paint a wheel or dance a reel
His equals cannot be found.

It is the custom around this locality on May morning to go out with a sheet and gather the dew on the sheet and to keep saying while doing it "Gather them up" Then it is believed that the person who does this will have plenty for the year of butter.
It is also the custom to go out and wash one's face and hands in

Shrove begins on the 6th of January and ends on Shrove Tuesday. Many people get married during Shrove. On shrove Tuesday salt is thrown at anyone that is eligible for marriage and has not been married. Shrove is called "the Seraft" in this district.

James Knight is the local tailor. He live sin Brierfort. Martin, hie father, was also a tailor. The people used to bring him frieze to make their clothes.
The people made the frieze cloth by dying the wool at first. Then they spun it and sen it to the weaver to weave it
Sometimes James Knight buys the cloth and makes the clothes for the person that wants it but more often the people bring him the cloth

One day in the country is worth a month in town.
A bird in the hand is worth two in a bush.
A rolling stone gathers no moss.
A stitch in time saves nine.
Listen to the noise of the river and you will get a trout.
Do not count you chickens before they hatched.
Better be sure than sorry
Better late than never.
Health is better than wealth.
It is the heaviest ear of corn that hangs its head lowest.
The person who talks most works least.
The thing that would please me wouldn't please you.
Better a good run than a bad stand.
Every one has his own story.
The long thread of the last tailor.
The juice of a cow is good alive or dead.

1st January: The circumcision of Our Lord.
6th January: The Epiphany.
17th March: St Patrick's Day.
Ascension Thursday.
Corpus Christe.
29th June St Peter and Paul's Day.
15th August: The Assumption of Out Lady.
21st November: All Saints Day.
8th December: The Immaculate Conception.
25th December: Christmas Day.
Some boys go around on St Stephen's Day and here is the verse the say in the houses: The wren, the wren, the kind of all birds, St Stephens day was caught in the furze, up with the kettle and down with the pan and give us a penny to bury the wren.
Some boys go around with the Brideog on St Brigids day in honour of St Brigid and the collect money and eggs in the houses.
On November's night people duck for apples and scatter the cabbage and some of them seal cabbage

The names of the animals we have are as follows:
cattle, sheep, a horse, and a donkey.
We have two cows and their names are "Black Polly" and the "White Head."
We call the cowhouse the cowhouse.
The littler we use for under the cows is straw.
We tie the cows and calves with chains, we but in the shops.
We have nothing ties in the cowhouse to bring luck.
We have to put a fetter on one of the cows when milking her.
The old saying about a cow is "That she may be lucky." for the owner when she would not have calves.
If you left your cow too long without milking her she would lose it.
When a horse is you he has to be trained and shod.
People clip their horses in Winter so

We have a churn at home.
It is called a churn.
It is three feet in height.
It is one and a half feet wide at the top and bottom.
It is made a long time.
The names of the different parts of the churn are :
The dash, the lid, the barrel, and the claibin.
There is not any mark on the side or bottom of it.
We have a churning once a week in Winter and twice a weaken Summer.
It is a churn that was bought in a shop.
If a visiter came in while the churning is on he would no be let out without churning it for a little while, because it is said that he would bring the butter off with him if he did not

We have a churn at home.
It is called "?"
It is three feet and a half in height and it is one foot and a half in width at the bottom.
It is made fourteen years.
Twice a week we churn in Summer and Winter.
A quarter of an hour it takes to make a churning.
It is with the hands it is done.
The dash works up and down and from side to side.
If a person looks in through the grass on the side of the churn he can see the little bits of butter below in the churn.
If a person wants to get the butter away from the buttermilk, first he gets a basin and a strainer and he put the basin under the strainer and the plug that is holding the butter and milk in the churn is drawn out and the butter falls

My parents have a churn and it is called a Victorian churn.
It is twenty eight inches in height and it is forty three inches wide at the top and forey two in the bottom.
My parents' churn is over twenty years made.
Here are the name of the different parts of the churn - the dash, the handle, the lid, the air presser and the barrel.
There is not any mark on the side of our churn only the name of the firm and the handles. We churn twice a week in Summer and once a week in Winter.

The last person that washes his feet in the water has to throw it out. My people never heard of any pisrogs concerning that water. Some boots and shoes are made in this district by shoemakers but the most of them are bought in the shops. Here are some of the words relating to the trade of shoemaking- ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?.
The shoemakers of this district have not the trade from their fathers. They learn the trade from other shoemakers. Boots are repaired in this district. Clogs were worn very common long ago and they are still worn by some. Leather is not tanned in this district now- a- days. Pieces of skins of cattle called pam-pooties are not worn as boots and shoes in the neightbourhood.

It is not right to throw out water after washing feet at night for fear it might be thrown in the path of a ghost.
Boots are made and repaired in this district. The shoemakers in this place have not the trade from their fathers they learned it from other shoemakers. Shoemakers are not as plentiful in this district as they were long ago. Clogs are not worn as much as long ago but are still worn by a few. heather is not tanned around here. People do not wear skins of cattle for shoes around here.

It takes about twenty minutes to make a churning.
It is made with the hands. The dash works up and down. When you see butter on the dash then the butter is made.
First we get a dish and wash it with water.
Then we take out the butter and wash it twice or three times and put salt in it.
We use the buttermilk for making cakes.
If a person comes in while you are churning and if he brings a coal of fire out with him he might steal the butter.

We have a churn at home. It is three feet and a half in height and it is two feet from side to side.
The mill is the part of the churn that makes the butter and there is a handle out of it and when you twist the handle the the mill twists also and then you keep twisting until the churning is done.
We make butter three times in a week. Summer and twice a week in Winter. Our churn was made about eight years ago.
If a visitor comes in while you are making a churning it is not right to go out without churning for little while.

collect pampooties are not used as boots and shoes now.

The last person that washes his feet in the water had to throw it out.
The old people say that if there is and person of the house on a visit is is not right to throw out the feet water until that person comes in.
Some of our shoemakers makes boots and shoes are also repaired here. The shoemakers did not learn the trade from their fathers but from other shoemakers.
My parents never heard of any people who wore boots.
Schoolchildren now-a-days don't wear any shoes during summer.
Clogs are worn by some people yet.

There are four forges in Glenanaddy The names of the blacksmiths are Tom Walsh, Bill Keaveny, Pat Conneally, and Roddy Fahy.
Two of them are in the town and two in the country.
All the forges are galvanised. There are double doors in the forge and one fireplace.
The bellows are not made in this place but are bought.

in the air.
The blacksmiths shoe horses, asses and foals, mules.
My parents do not know whether the blacksmiths long ago had any right to anything more that other people.
The people used make presents to blacksmiths above other people.

My people never heard of the blacksmiths long ago having power not possessed by other people for example power to drive away rats, power to cure diseases, to extract teeth.
My people never heard of any black-smiths in this district making pikes of that sort for fighting with.

wheels.
In olden times people used make presents to blacksmiths beyond other people.

There are four forges in this parish The names of the owners are R. Fahy, B. Keaveney, T. Walsh, and the Connelly brothers.
Their fathers before them were never blacksmiths
One of the forges are in the town and one on the outskirts of the town and the other two are in the country.
All the forges are galvanised. There are two doors in the forges. There is only one fire-place in each forge.
The bellows are like a big balloon worked by a stick tied with a rope.
The bellows are bought in a shop. The blacksmith shoes asses, horses but not cattle.
The smith makes farm implements. he also makes, gates, grates, tongs, and he repairs ploughs, harrows, mowing machines, and bicycles.
He does alot of work in the open

There are four forges in this parish and he names of the blacksmiths are:- Tom Walsh, Roddy Fahy, Bill Keaveney, and Pat Conneely. Their people before them were not blacksmiths.
Two of them are in the town and two od them in the country. All the forges are galvanised.
There are double doors in the forges and one fireplace.
The bellows is made of leather and there is a chain running through it.
These are the implements used by the smith- hammer, sledge, rash, pinchers, tongs, and iron.
The smith shoes asses, horses, but he does not shoe cattle.
People used make presents for blacksmiths long ago beyond other people, that's how they paid them for their work.

My people never heard of the blacksmiths long ago having power possessed by other people for example power to drive away rats, power to cure diseases or to extract teeth.
My people never heard of any strong blacksmiths living in this neighborhood long ago.
My people never heard of blacksmiths in this district making pikes and weapons of that sort for fighting with.

I never heard of any strong blacksmith in this village. Long ago people used to collect in forges in the night telling stories about fairies and ghosts.
Long ago the blacksmiths used make pikes and weapons for fighting in this district.
In olden times people used make presents to blacksmiths beyond other people.
It was the way they used repay them for the work that they did during the year.

When people are calling hens to their food they "chuck chuck" and when they are calling ducks they say "pheet pheet".
When they are calling geese they say "badaig" badaig" and when they are calling turkey they say "bed bed" and when they are calling pigs they say "furris, furris".
When people want to set a dutch of eggs the first thing they have to do is to get a box and put straw into it.
Then they have to get a "gor" and put her sitting on the eggs. She hatches them for three weeks and then the chickens come out.
My people never heard of putting a mark on the eggs.

The farm animals are cows, sheep, cattle, pigs, asses, and horses.
We have three cows and there are no names on them.
We tie the cows and calves with chains,
We have no names for the chains.
We have a horse-shoe hanging in the cowhouse to bring the luck.
When driving the cows we say "Go on up". I do not know any story about milking cows.
Straw we use for litter for litter under the cows.

There is no way for calling animals to food.
"Chuck chuck" we say when calling the fowl.
We put a blue mark on the eggs that do be put hatching for fear any other egg would be layed along with them.

The sheep are called by saying "show, show".
The cows are called by saying "bet bet".
The pigs are called by saying "suck suck."
The geese are called by saying "beada beada".
The ducks are called by saying "pheet pheet"
A hen is three weeks hatching.
A goose is one month hatching.
A duck is one month hatching.

"Chuck, chuck" is the way we call we call the hens.
When we are calling the pigs we say "suck suck."
When we are calling the horse or the ass we say "tweh tweh."
When we are calling the sheep we say "chow chow."
When we are calling the geese we say "bada, bada."
When we are calling the turkeys we say "Bead, Bead."
The people put a cross with a pencil on the hatching eggs so that if any other hen played on them their eggs would be known.

When we are calling the fowl we say "chuck chuck."
When we are calling the pigs we say "furris, furris."
Some people put a black shot on the eggs when they are putting them down to hatch.

There are herbs called bouchalauns, black-heads and praiste and they do alot of harm to the land. The praiste is bad for oats and the bouchalauns are bad for grass. The herbs that are hurtful to good land are nettles, docket leaves, thistles and furze.
Nettles are good for you blood when they are boiled and The juice of a docket leaf is very good for the whooping cough.

Nettles and docks leaves do the most damage to the land.
Praiste dos alot of damage to oats, and another weed common in gardens is chicken weed.
Thorns are hurtful plants that grow on poor land.
Rushes grow on poor land and furze bushes are also plentiful.
Nettles and dandelions are good for the blood.
The flowers of the flaggers and the flowers of the furze bushes were used for colouring cloth in olden times but that way is not used now-a-days because the people buy dye in shops and use it for colouring cloth.

It is a tall yellow flower that does damage to oats and it is called Praiste.
Sun Spurge is a white milk plant and it is good for warts.
It grows between potatoes and cabbage and does not much harm.
The plants called Cruac Padraug is good for boils and sores.
It is something like a dock-leave and grows flat.

All the people around here sow potatoes every year.
The farmers plough the land and harrow it and make drills or ridges out of it.
The potatoes are mostly sown in ridges but some people who have very light land sow them in drills.
The drills are made with a plough.
The old people had wooden ploughs long ago for making drills.
The shades are bought in the shops.
There is an eye left in each potatoe for a slit.
There is a hole dug in the ridge and a slit is put into it and it is dosed with a shovel.
Some people help one another to plant the potatoes.
After the sowing of the potatoe slits the manure is put on them.

People wear one suit only for special occasions.

There are four tailors in this parish.
They work at home and they do not go from house to house according as they get work.
The tailors around here do not have cloth for sale: the cloth is bought in the shops.
The people mostly wear tweed or or serge.
My people do not know of any proverbs about tailors.
Here are some of the implements used by a tailor:- iron, needles, sewing machine, scissors, thimble and lapboard.
Shirts are not made in our houses at home.
There used no be shirts made of linen woven in the district worn by people long ago.
Woollen stockings are made in this district but linen stockings are not made.
The thread is bought in the shops.
There are two spinning wheels in

There are four tailors in this parish.
They work at home.
Te tailors around here have no cloth for sale in their own houses.
The people around here wear cloth bought in shops.
My people never heard of any saying or proverbs about tailors.
The implements used by a tailor are the thimble, needle, iron, sewing machine, lap board, scissors, and a tape.
Shirts were made of linen and woven in this district long ago.
Shirts are now bought in shops.
Stocking are made in this district.
The thread is bought in the shops.
There are about six spinning wheels in this district.
People have not suits for special occasions such as funerals and weddings.

There are four tailors in this parish The tailors around here have not cloth of their own for sale in their own houses.
The cloth that the people wear around here is bought in shops. The implements used for tailoring are: thimble, scissors, needle, iron, lap board, sewing machine and a tape.
Most of the people wear tweeds and serge.
Shirts were made of linen woven in this district long ago.
Stocking are made in this district from thread bought in shops.

There are four tailors in this parish. They work at home
The tailors around here do not have cloth for sale in their own house.Cloth bought in shops the people round here wear.
The people wear tweeds and serge. The implements with which the tailor works are a measure, a thimble, a needle, chalk, sewing machine, a pressing iron, scissors, and a lap-board.
There are no shirts made in our house.
Cotton is the material used in our place.
There used to be shirts made of linen woven in this district worn around here long ago.
Stocking are made in this district by thread spun at home.
There is a spinning wheel in nearly every house in this district.

There are five tailors in this district They work at home in their own houses. The tailors do not have cloth of their own for sale in their houses. The people around here wear serges and tweeds.
My people never heard anything about tailors.
The implements with which a tailor works with are: a thimble, scissors, needles, machine, a lap-board and an iron.
Shirts are made in our house athome.
Shirts are made of linen.
Stockings are made in this district.
The thread is made out of wool and is spun by old women.

My parents never heard any stories about out Lord. Blessed Virgin, or St Joseph other than the usual Bible stories. There are no pilgrimages to or patterns held at holy wells or ruins but there a holy well at Williamscown.

Martin McDonnell was the landlord of my fathers farm long ago.
Landlords used stay over fifty-five years in the place.
The people used not think much about landlords.
They used evict people.
The people who used be evicted used go to the workhouse.
It is the landlords divided the land among tenants.
Tiches used not be collected in chis district long ago.

you can boil it and drink it.
We feed the pony with hay in the stable.
We have shoes on her hooves.
She is trained.
We have no pigs.
We feed the sheep with oil-cake and the eat grass.
We have no ass.

The farm animals we have at home are cattle, sheep, a pony and a foal.
We have three cows but we have no names for them.
"Go on" we say to the cows when we are driving them.
We use hay and straw for litter under the cows.
We lie the cattle in the cow house with chains.
We have nothing hanging in the cow house to bring luck to the cattle.
I know no story about milking a cow.
When a cow is losing her milk it is because it is left to her to long.
If you were talking about another man's cow and did not say "God bess her" you would be putting a bad eye on her.
When a cow is milked after calving the milk is called breastings and

There are four roads passing through Glenamaddy namely the Kilkerrin, Duncmore Ballymoe and Creggsroads.
My neighbours do not know when they were made. There are seven roads in this district and they are all in use at present.
The roads were made in the bad times. The men who made them and worked on them used get threepence a day.
There are places where carts used travel but we never heard anything about them.

There are three lisheens in this district.
I never heard of a lisheen called any other name.
There is one in John coughlan's landed another in Martin Gibbin's and there is one in Scotland.
They are within sight of each other. and they are round in shape.
There are hedges around them but there is no hole in them.
It is said that the Danes made the lesses and that they used live in them.
Weasles live in them now.

There are three lisheens in this district but my parents never heard of them been called and names.
There is one in John boughlan's land and there is one in Martin gibbins and there is one in Scotland.
They are within sight of eachother and they are round in shape.
There is a hedge and bank around them but there is no hole in them.
We never heard a story about any of them but it is that that the Hanes made the lisses and that they used live in them.
The fairies are supposed to live in them now.
There used to be weasles seen in them and one time my grand-father and father started to root out a bank of the one in out fo field but the weasles ran them off.
The people wouldn't do that not for fear something bad would happen to them.

Beggars, tramps and tinkers call at out house occasionally.
It is the same who always call,
The tinker Wards come from Twan and Reillys are the names of other tinkers around here,
My parents do not know here they came from but I think they have homes in Roscommon.
They sleep out in caravans of canvas made by themselves.
They are always looking for charity and money is the charity they like best.

do.

Beggars, and gipsies and tinkers call at our house very often.
It is mostly the same people who call always.
The Reillys are from some place around here but I do not know where.
The Rainets are from Kilkerrin and that is all I know.
The tinkers sell tins and sauce- pans and the gipsies sell carpets and lace.
The things that the sell they buy in shops.
The tinkers prefer money but the beggars prefer tea to a plate of flour.
These are the prayers they say: God incase you store" to "that you may be in your health this time seven years.
They do not all stories in the houses nowadays and the neighbours do not come to the houses to listen to them because they have something else to

Beggars, tramps, tinkers and gipsies call at our house occasionally. It is the same people who always call. Their names are, Reillys, Murrays, Wards and they are mostly from Roscommon. Some of them sell small wares such as pictures, brushes, and artificial flowers. They buy the goods they sell from the shops. They always ask for charity and most of them prefer money and bits of meat.

Tramps, tinkers beggars and gipsies call at out house very often.
It is not the same people who always calls, these are some of their names Reillys, Raineys, Wards and McDonoghs.
My people never heard of where they came from.
The gipsies sell pictures and ? that they buy in the shops.
The tinkers sell tin saucepans and cans. They make bags out of canvas and baskets out of rods.
The gipsies and tinkers sleep in tents. They beg their food and money from the people, and they say "God bless you" and "I hope we meet in Heaven" if they get anything from the people.
The beggars travel on foot and the tinkers and gipsies travel in vans.

It is not right to tackle a horse on Whit- Monday, because there was a man in Kiltulbagh who dressed his horse on Whit- Monday and the horse and cart tumbled over without reason.
It is not right to put out ashes on May morning.
It is not right tot throw water out at night.
It is not right to sow seed on Wednesday.
Long ago people would not take a peice of a plough; they would be afraid of the ploughman's curse.

There is no special days for sowing cabbage around here. The first three days in April are supposed to kill all the old cows.
My people never heard of the harvest of the geese.

The young girls used makes hats out of rushes.
My parents never heard of people making dolls or cutting patterns out of paper.
The boys make pop-guns out of a piece of elder stick and a piece of a spring of a clock.
Boys still make slings out of a bit of leather and two bits of sting.
They also make catapults from a piece of an elder stick and a tube of a bicycle.

The young girls make necklaces out of flowers in the Summer. Boys still make cribs for catching birds and they also make catapults. The boys do not play marbles or tops nowadays.

(1) How far can a dog go into a wood? Ans= Half-way
(2) Why does a hen pick the pot? Ans= Because she cannot lick it.
(3) The more you pull at it the shorter it gets. Ans= A cigarette.
(4) What has an eye but cannot see. Ans= A needle.
(5) What goes up when the rain comes down? an umbrella.
(6) A little white woman and the longer she stands the shorter she gets. Ans= a candle.
(7) How many sticks of rhubarb would make an apple pie. Ans= none.
(8) How many cows tails would reach the moon? Ans= none.
(9) One what side of a jug is the handle? Ans= On the outside.
(10) East, west, north and south, five teeth and no mouth? Ans= A harrow.
(11) What has a head but no face? Ans= A match.

Ans= A clock.
(12) What has an eye but cannot see? Ans= An needle.
(13) What is the difference between a cat and a book? Ans= A cat has his tail outside and a book has its tale inside.
(14) I was going up the hill I met a car there were two white men and a black man in it and the two white me ate the black man. What was the number of the car. Ans= 281.
(15) How many sticks of rhubarb would make an apple pie? Ans= none.
(16) The more you take out of it the bigger it gets? Ans= A hole.
(17) A little white woman and the longer it stands the shorter it gets? Ans= A candle.
(18) What is the smallest bride in the world? Ans= the bride of your nose.
(19) If six loads of turf cost a pound what would a rick come to? Ans= Stocking
(20)

(1) Four bottles up on a hill no cork on them why don't they spill? Ans= A cow's teats.
(2) Why does a cow look over the ditch? Ans= Because she can't look under it.
(3) Why does a hen cross the road? Ans= To get to the other side.
(4) Twenty four white cows lied up in as stall down comes a red one and jumps over them all. Ans= your teeth and tongue.
(5) Change a pound without coppers silver or paper? Ans= sovereign.
(6) North, south, east and west twenty five teeth and no mouth? Ans= A Harrow.
(7) Who is the strongest man in the world? Ans= A guard because he can stop a car with one hand.
(8) Who wears the biggest hat? Ans= The man with the biggest head.
(9) It hoes round the house all day and sits down at night. Ans= A broom.
(10) What has a head and no face? Ans= A match.
(11) What has a face but cannot see?

red nose, the longer she lives the short she goes? Ans= A Candle.
(12). It opens like a barn door and closes like a trap, many a thing you think of before you would think of that? Ans= AN umbrella.
(13). Why does a hen cross the road? And= To get to the other side.
(14) When was beef the highest? Ans= When the cow jumped over the moon.
(15) If Jack's father was Paddys brother what would Jack be to Paddy mother? Ans= Her grandson.
(16) Why does a guard carry his baton? And= Because it would not walk for him.
(17). Why does a cat be looking for milk? Because he is thirsty.

(1) Under the fire and over the fire and never touches the fire? Ans= A cake in an oven.
(2) Under the water and over the water and never touches the water? Ans= A pale of water on a woman's head going across a bridge.
(3) As I went out the garden gap I met met my uncle Thady. I cut of his head and left his body east? Ans= A head of cabbage.
(4) It is black and white and read all over? Ans= A newspaper.
(5) The (the) man who made it never wore it and the man who wore it never saw it. Ans= A coffin.
(6) As round as a biscuit, as busy as a bee, the nicest thing you could ever see? Ans= A clock,
(7) Why does a cow look over the ditch? Ans= Because she can't look under it.
(8) On what side of a jug is the handle? Ans= the outside.
(9) What is most like half the moon? Ans= The other half.
(10). It has a neck and a body and nothing else? Ans= a bottle.
(11). A little white woman with a little

Christmas is a feast that we all know and enjoy and that we all look forward to. We carry on many old customs which tradition has handed down to us. Before Christmas the people make many preparations, they clean their homes and whitewash the walls of them. on Christmas Eve Night the people also light candles and place them on their windows They also light two large colored candles and place them in the centre of the kitchen table. Another local customs in the burning of the "Yule Sog". On Christmas Eve the doors are left opened untill after midnight to afford shelter to casual travellers who may pass the way. On Christmas Day the people go to 5.30 a.m. Mass and pay a visit to the Crib, as a rule they go to a later Mass after breakfast.
On St. Stepen's Day the wren

The farm animals kept on my fathers farm are cows, horses, sheep, pigs, goats and ponies.
The domestic animals include hens, ducks, geese and turkies.
The cows have names so that one may be distinguished from the other. The names of our cows are Polley, White-Head, Long-Tail and Crooked-Horn.
When driving the cows we say How! How Up! Meaning hurry, hurry. The cowhouse is usually a one stoned house covered with galvanized roofing. It is also called a byre.
Cows are tied around the neck with an iron chain fastened to bales. Some cows are tied with ropes. In the cowhouse there is a horse-shoe hung over the cows' heads to bring luck.
When milking the cows the

The chief roads in the locality are the Main or Trunk road, the Blain road, the Esker road and the Loughrea road.
The main road leads from galway to Dublin it was made in 1924. The Blain road branches from the Trunk road to the barnakelly road, it was made over a century ago. The Esker road is also a branch of the Main road and it leads to Esker Monastery.
The Loughrea road goes from Loughrea, thence to Athenry.
There are many old roads in the district their names are, "? ?", "? ? ?", "?",

more went after that, a man and his dog after that, how many feet wet out the gap? Ans= The man's two.
(11) As I went out the garden gap I met my uncle Teddy: steel toes iron nose and upon my word it would frighten the crows? Ans= A gun.
(12) Put out your hand before you and you will see a thing that never was or never will be? Ans- That you fingers are not the same length.
(13) s round as an apple as deep as a cup, all the king's horses couldn't pull it up? Ans= The sun in a well.
(14) It is back a soot but soot it isn't; as white as milk but milk is isn't; it hops on the road like a marble stone but a marblestone it isn't? Ans= A magpie.
(15) A little white house and it is full of meat and it has no doors or windows to let me in and eat? Ans= An egg.

more went after that, a man and his dog after that, how many feet wet out the gap? Ans= The man's two.
(11) As I went out the garden gap I met my uncle Teddy: steel toes iron nose and upon my word it would frighten the crows? Ans= A gun.
(12) Put out your hand before you and you will see a thing that never was or never will be? Ans- That you fingers are not the same length.
(13) s round as an apple as deep as a cup, all the king's horses couldn't pull it up? Ans= The sun in a well.
(14) It is back a soot but soot it isn't; as white as milk but milk is isn't; it hops on the road like a marble stone but a marblestone it isn't? Ans= A magpie.
(15) A little white house and it is full of meat and it has no doors or windows to let me in and eat? Ans= An egg.

(1). What [art of a cow goes out a gap first? Ans= Her breath.
(2). Why does a cow look over a ditch? Ans= Because she can't look under it.
(3). Under the fire and over the fire and never touches the fire? Ans= A cake in an oven.
(4) When was beef the highest? Ans= When the cow jumped over the moon.
(5) Why does a hen pick the pot? Ans= Because she can't lick it.
(6) It's deep and it's damp and it's green over bank and it's fit for a lady or gentleman? Ans= A grave.
(7) The man who made it never wore it and the man who wore it never saw it? Ans= a coffin.
(8) It is all around the wood and never goes into the wood? Ans= The bark of a tree.
(9) Under the water and over the water and never touches the water? Ans- A woman crossing a bridge with a pail of water on her head.
(10). Twenty sheep went out a gap, twenty

the second blow he gave he knocked the roof off the house. The smith got afraid and he told Tom that he would not allow him to work in the forge any longer. He also told Tom that he would give him anything he asked. Tom asked a purse of gold and he built a new house for his father and mother. It was when they found out who Tom was and they lived happy ever after.

a big as his father, but far, far stronger. The giants food had given him a giant's strength. The giant sent him home at the end of the twelve years, because he was as big as his father and as strong a himself.
When he reached home his father or mother did not know him, and he did not tell them either. The two old people were living in a tiny hut and they were as poor as church mice. Their farm had been taken from them by a cruel blacksmith. When Tom heard this, he went to the blacksmith and asked him for work. The blacksmith asked him what wages did he want and Tom told him that he did not want anything but if the smith would let him give his two taps on the shoulder every evening he would be thankful. The smith said he would let him and welcome. Tom started to work that day but the first blow he gave he broke the anvil in fifty pieces and

There was once a little boy who was growing old but was not growing up. When he was four years of age he took his first bath in a tumble and when he was six he was not much bigger than a daisy. His poor parents did not know what to do with him and they called him Tom Thumb.
At last a kind giant who lived a long way off got to hear of Tom Thumb. The giant was so tall that he hid the light of the sun.,and when ever he passed by, the people thought the night has come. He came to Tom;s house this day and asked Tom to go with him and that he would soon be as big as his father. He caught poor Tom ip and put him sitting in his ear and carried him off. Tome stayed with the giant twelve years and was fed on giant's food. At the end of that time he was

The houses which existed in the vicinity some time ago were thatched and contained two bedrooms and a kitchen.
The thatch (straw) was obtained from straw grown on the farms of those who owned the farms, wheaton straw was used in preferance to oaten straw.
In the kitchen there was either a settle bed or a press-bed. The chimney was in the center of the house it was made of "? ?" and stones, the floors were also made of "? ?". The "? ?" was found in the bottom of rivers.
Many of the old houses had half-doors but in the houses that

Potatoes are the most useful and important crop that is grown in the farm. In my district nearly every farmer grows at least an acre of potatoes, but this amount varies nearly every year.
In preparing for planting the potato-crop, the farmer first ploughs the soil, he then harrows it until the soil is very soft and free from lumps. Then drills one opened with a double plough, and the manure is spread between each drill. Ridges are seldom made in my parish except in newly broken land or in a small garden. When the manure is spread the sets are spread about a foot apart along the drills, these sets are usually cut by the woman of the house. They are then closed with a double plough and left there until the green stalk has

Candle-making soap-manufacture rope-making and barrel-making were old crafts carried on in the district and are now discontinued.
Some crafts that are carried on still are, basket-making forge-work, spinning, thatching, wheel-making, nail-making and burning of lime in kilns.
Candles were made by peeling rushes and dipping them in melted greese.
Baskets were made by peeling sally-rods and boiling them to make them pliable, after that they were woven into wicker work.
The clothes were dyed with hay and heather, the heather was boiled and then strained and the clothes were dyed in the water that remained, when the

Once there was a boy who was very fond playing cards. One night he went playing cards about two miles from his home. He stayed playing cards there until it was very late. It was about one oclock when he was coming home. There was a grave -yard near the road he had to pass. There were a great number of people coming home from a dance, so the boy thought of a great plan to frighten them. He turned his coat inside out and put a white cloth round him, and lay down near the wall. There were tinkers camping near the grave-yard. One of them died the day before and the nest of the tinkers wanted to bury him in holy ground and they were not allowed. They thought of a plan. to bring the remains of the tinker at night- time and bury him, so that nobody would know about it.

There is a lis near our house. One november's night when a man was passing by it he saw a door in a big tree. He opened it and went in. When he went in he saw a man playing bagpipes and another man making shoes.
They took him before the king of the fairies and they asked him how he got in but when he told them they would not believe him. They put him into prison with another man he knew and then they set the other prisoner free. When the fairies were sleeping the man that knew the prisoner let him free. When the fairies found out that their prisoner had gone they were very vexed. The man was in twenty years with the fairies and he had a long whisker.

A rolling stone gathers no moss.
A penny saved a penny gained.
The longest way round the shortest way home.
The early bird catches the worm.
Little strokes fell great oaks.
A stich in time saves nine.
A rolling stone gathers no moss.
Where the woman are there is talk.
Do not look at what you see: do not listen to what you hear.
If you fo not sow in the spring you will not reap in Autumn.
Every cat after its kind.
A borrowed horse has hand hoofs.
Tell me with whom you go and I will tell you what you are.
He who rises late never does a good days work.

(10) Who is the fastest man in the world?
Ans= A drummer because he beats time.
(11) Ten men's length; ten men's strength; a little boy picks it up and carries it?
Ans= A rope.
(12) Its the beginning of eternity, the end of place, its the beginning of everything and the end of peace. Ans= The letter ,E.

(1). When ginger bread gets soft.
(2). When the cat has his back to the fire.
(3) When chairs creek.
(4) When the sun sets yellow.
(5) When there is a shaded moon or a ring around it.
(6) When salt or sugar gets damp.
(7) When dogs eat grass.
(8) When cats scratch timber,
(9) When there is a blue light in the fire.
(10) When corns ache.
(11) When swallows fly low and
(12) When rheumatism aches. are all signs of rain.

(1) When a cat sits with his back to the fire it is a sign of bad weather.
(2) When the swallows are flying low it is a sign of bad weather.
(3) When frogs turn a dark colour it is a sign of a storm.
(4) When a cat is scratching the door it is a sign of a storm.
(5) When a dog is eating grass it is a sign of bad weather.
(6) When you hear the sky- goat at night it is a sign go good weather.
(7) When you see a pig running with a straw in his mouth it is a sign of a storm coming.

(1) When the wind blows from the north- east with a clear sky it is a sign of fine weather.
(2) When the sun goes down red in Summer it is a sign of warm weather
(3) When the wind blows from the north east in the winter it is a sign of very cold weather.
(4) When the wind blows from the south- west it is always the sign of rain, and bad weather.
(5) When the winds blows from the south- east with red streaks in the sky in winter it is a sign of stormy weather.
(6) On a bright stormy night we will have frost.
(7) When you see a ring around the mood it is a sign of rain.

(1) When the sky gets dark and cloudy it is the sign of rain.
(2) When there is a halo around the moon.
(3) When the soot falls down the chimney it is the sign of rain.
(4) When the cat starts scraping a post it is the sign of rain.
(5) When the distant hills are looking near it is the sign of rain.
(6) When the wind comes from the south- east or south- west it is a sign that rain will follow.

(1) When the cat scrapes a tree it is the sign of wind and rain.
(2) When the sky is red at the bottom it is the sign of good weather.
(3) When birds of a feather flock together it is the sign of a storm.
(4) When there are black clouds in the sky it is the sign of showers.
(5) When the cat has his back to the fire it is the sign of bad wet weather.
(6) When you hear a thrush singing on top of a tree in the evening it is a sure sign that the next day will be wet.
(7) When the wind comes from the north it is the sign of frost and snow.
(8) When you see the stars jumping it is the sign of frost.
(9) When the wild- geese fly low it is a the sign of bad weather.
(10) When the curlew sings it is a sign that it is calling for rain.
(11) When the frogs turn their colours it is a sign of rain.

(1) When the cat turns his back to the fire is the sign of bad weather.
(2) When black clouds are to be seen in the sky is the sign of rain.
(3) When dogs eat grass.
(4) When hens rest under a tree.
(5) When the cricket sings sharply and
(6) When the cat scratches wood are all signs of rain.
(7) When far-away hills appear to be nearer is a sign of bad weather.
(8) When chairs of tables creak it is a sign of bad weather also.
(9) When wild- geese fly low it is another bad sign.
(10) When the robin comes to the door it is the sign of snow and frost.
(11) When there is a blue light in the fire it is a sure sign of bad weather.

(1). When the crows are flying low it is a sign of rain.
(2). When you see the cats back to the fire it is the sign of a storm.
(3). When swallows are flying low it is the sign of rain.
(4). When the wild- geese come it is the sign of frost.
(5). When the soot falls it is the sign of rain.
(6). When the goat comes down from the top of the hill it is the sign of a storm.
(7). When you see a dog eating grass it is the sign of rain.

(1). When the cat turns her back to the fire and when she scratches a tree it is the sign of wind.
(2). Hen the robin comes to the door it is the sign of cold weather.
(3) When the sun is pale when setting.
(4) When the cricket sings behind the fire.
(5). When the spiders creep up the walls,
(6) When the sea-gulls are on the land is a sign of rain.
(7) When the robin sings high up on the tree is a sign of good weather.
(8) When the rainbow is seen in the evening is another sign of good weather.

1. We have a churn
2. It is your feet in height
3. We have a little bit of wood taken on the side of it so as to place the lid correctly
4. There are more churning made in Summer, because the cows have more milk
5. It takes one hour to make the churning
6. The dash is used by pounding the milk with i7. When there is not butter only milk seem be seen on the dash, the butter is made.

1. The wild animals that live near us are, rabbits, haresm weasels, rats, mice and otters
2. The rabbit lives in a burrow and in holes in ditches.
3. The hares live in nests in long grass
4. The weasels live in hold in ditches
5. The rats live sometimes in pig houses watching the pigs food.
6. The mice live in holes in the ground and in pits of potatoes
7. The otters live on banks of rivers, and they are very fierce
8. The fox went one morning to a wood in search of food. He saw a crow which had a piece of meat in her mouth. He started praising her and she began to "crow" and the meat fell to the ground. He took it and ran off

morning when he would go out the cows would be milked and this morning he said he would watch the cow and about six o'clock he heard a mouse and he looked out of the window, and there he saw a woman coming in the "bouckin". He got up and went out to the cow house and the cow was milked. The woman disappeared but the cow was never milked any other morning since.
16. The mame of the tie that goes on the ? two front feet is called the "?"
17. The chain that goes on the cows front and hind foot is called the "?"

10. When the people would pit down a cutch long ago they would put a mark on the eggs for fear another hen would lay on them.
11. Long ago before the people would put down a clutch they would put a needle on the eggs. If it went round it would be a pullet that would be in it, and if it went oblong it would be a cock.
12. The way the people called the hens is "chuck", "chuck", the ducks "paove- paove", the geese "bacaus- bacuas." The way they called the small chickens is "shis-shis", the sheep "seo, seo", the pigs "farish-farish", the calves "suck suck", the ass "preh preh" the cows "prujin prujin"
13. If a person spills milk when milking they would say ? ? ? ? ?
14. In olden times the old people would say that you would make a bad eye of a cow if you did not say God Bless her.
15. Long ago there was a man and every

1. The animals the farmers have are, two cows, sheep, horse, and a donkey.
2. The names of the cows are the red cow, and the black polly.
3. The names of the calves are, the black calf, red nose, black curly, and the white one.
4. The name of the place where the cows are kept is called the cows house, and where the calves are kept is called the calves' shed.
5. The name of the ties that go around their necks are called the "ceannase."
6. The place where the hay and straw is given to them is called the manger
7. If you dont keep it cleaned out from them it would take away their milk.
8. Old people say that if you got a clutch of chickens outside you would have good luck in chickens during the year
9. It is unlucky to put down a clutch the odd day of the year. It is a lucky thing to put a clutch down on a Friday

1. "Half a load is better than no bread"
2. "Waste not want not"
3. "Bad wind that wont favour somebody."
4. (Self) "Self praise is no praise."
5. "A bird in the fist is worth two on a bush."
6. "What the fairy writes he can read himself
7. "Laugh an the world laughs with you weep and you weep alone"
8. "What would kill a nailor would cure a tailer"
9. "A friend in need is a friend indeed."
10. "A long threatening comes at last"
11. "Every dog is stiff at his own door."
12. "Show me your company and I'll tell you who you are"
13. "What you wont hear wont trouble you."
14. "A lier you can never trust, even if he tells the truth "sometimes"
15. "Honesty is the best policy"
16. "Never trouble trouble until trouble troubles you"
17. "Spare the rod and spoil "the child"
18. "Too many cooks spoil the broth"
19. "A stitch in time saves nine"

13. "When doctors differ, patient die."
14. "Penny wise and a pound foolish."
15. "A friend in need is a friend indeed."
16. "Pride without ability is like a pudding without fat."
17. "When ignorance is bliss it is fully to be wise."
18. "Spare the rod and spoil the child."
19. "Out of sight out of mind."
20. "Coming events cast their shadows before them."
21. "Distance bends enchantment to the view."

1. "Absence make the hear grow fonder."
2. "Hills are green far away"
3. "Age is Honourable"
4. "A new broom sweeps clean."
5. "You cannot put a wise head on young shoulders"
6. "Honest is the best policy."
7. "Two heads are wiser that one."
8. "Plough deep while slugs sleep."
9. "Put a bit for the rainy day for the sun will not always shine."
10. "Bend with the rod that bends with you."
11. "Many hands make light work."
12. "Make hay while the sun shines."