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Wild Sage is supposed to be a cure for hurts and broken ribs
A foxe's tongue is used to draw a needle out of a person's flesh
Agrimony is said to be a cure for consumption.
Garlic is a cure for a cough
Dandelion was a cure for the liver.
Sloes:- Wine made from the sloes is said to be good for a pain. This wine is called "Sloe-Gin."

Bizzam is a cure for boils.
Broom- wood which the old people used for making brooms was also a cure for boils. It should be pulled and boiled for four hours and the juice should then be placed in a bottle and drank.
The old people of this locality used to take their horses to Furze Island in Dunnanus Bay, as it was supposed to have an herb to cure horses of worms

Soda is a cure for a burn when placed on the burn immediately after it occurs
Boiled potatoes are a cure for a sore throat. They should be applied in a stocking around the throat immediately after boiling
Grated potatoes are a cure for a burn
Fresh butter when boiled into butter oil was considered by the old people as the best cure for a sore throat
To lick an eascu luacra is a cure for a burn
If a person strikes his forehead causing a lump to rise it can be avoided by placing a cold slate against it immediately after it occurs.

Cold tea if rubbed to sore eyes would cure them
Engine Oil if rubbed to a burn before blisters come on it will not let the burned part blister and will cure the burn.

Cold tea if rubbed to sore eyes would cure them
Engine Oil if rubbed to a burn before blisters come on it will not let the burned part blister and will cure the burn.
Soda is a cure for a burn when placed on the burn immediately after it occurs
Boiled potatoes are a cure for a sore throat. They should be applied in a stocking around the throat immediately after boiling
Grated potatoes are a cure for a burn
Fresh butter when boiled into butter oil was considered by the old people as the best cure for a sore throat
To lick an eascu luacra is a cure for a burn
If a person strikes his forehead causing a lump to rise it can be avoided by placing a cold slate against it immediately after it occurs.

Animal's legs :- When a child who has any disease is put under a donkey and walks under his legs the disease is supposed to vanish
Ferret :- Milk left over a ferret is a cure for whooping - cough.
Flax Seed :- The water of boiled flax seed when mixed with melted sugar is a cure for whooping cough.
Penniwinkle when boiled and the water mixed with melted soot is a cure for a sick cow
Washing Soda is a cure for warts
Boiled potato water is another cure for warts
Methylated Spirits is a cure for bhibblains
Wild Sage :- The water of boiled Wild Sage is supposed to be good for a person in bad health
Paraffin Oil is another cure for bhilblians
Wax when melted is a cure for sore- heels
Methylated Spirits is supposed to cure Rheumatism

Holy Wells were greatly depended on by the old people to cure any disease which they had. My Grandmother told me that she once had very sore eyes. She was told by some old person to wash her eyes in the Holy Well in Kilthomane. She did so and was cured.
The seventh son or daughter:- If there are seven sons or seven daughters in a family the seventh son or daughter is supposed to have a cure for any disease.
Posthumous Child:- When a person who never saw his father blows his breath nine mornings in succession on a person who has any disease he is supposed to cure that person of the disease.
Buttermilk when left to sour and then boiled is a cure for a sorethroat
Milk fresh from the cow is supposed to be a cure for a weak-heart

God bless this house from dawn to dark. God bless our work and play. God bless our loved ones far and near and guard them night and day.God be the branch, Mary be the flower. Sweet Jesus be with me at my last dying hour.The Cross of Christ is my sure salvation. The Cross I ever adore. The Cross of the Lord is with me and I love it ever more.From the ashes of the past, Lord of mercy, Jesus blest. Grant the faithful light and rest. Mother I trust and confide in Thee Mother I send my sighs to Thee. Mother assist thy poor week child. Mother's protection and strength I seek.May the peace of God's angels and the prayers of God's saints make my soul like a vision before God without taint.

on my soul in the name of Jesus who died on a tree. Amen.O Lord my God I love Thee with my whole heart and soul and above all things because Thou art infinitely good and perfect and most worthy of all love and for Thy sake I love my neighbour as myself. I renounce every thought which is contrary to that love of one another by which men are known to be the disciples of Thy Son. I forgive all who have in any way injured me and I bed Thy grace and mercy for all the world. Amen.

God Bless Good Friday the day on which our Savious died nailed to a cross from the cross to his hands, His Heart was bleeding sore. His tender Mother standing by with a dreadful cry and a Heart full Sore.Amen.Lord my God I am sorry and bed pardon for all my sins and I detest them above all things because they deserve Thy dreadful punishment and most of all because they offend Thine infinite Majesty and I firmly purpose by Thy holy grace never more to offend Thee and carefully to avoid the occassion of sin.Sweet Mary Christs Mother you may be at my head St John the Apostle may be at my feet Jesus messenger with Christs oil may be to me in time to put a seal

all the soup. He was sorry now when he had the goose eaten because he said to himself that they would have nothing for the party.Lucky enough for Tom they had a goose hatching and he brought her in and killed her. Without ever plucking her he put her in the pot to boil. At last, he went to the barrel ans drank a mug of porter. He din't know how to turn off the tap and all the porter ran along the floor. He said his mother and wife would get all wet, and he got the bag of (oats) loaves and put them here and there all round the room as steps.He thought that the eggs on which the goose was sitting would be cold and he sat on them himself.. WHne the mother and wife came home Tom was still on the eggs and when his intended wife saw him she turned away and went home leaving Tom to his mother.

Once upon a time there was a man who wanted a wife. So, one day he sent his mother looking for a wife for him and she got one for him. The next day they bought the wedding. They bought a barrel of porter and a bag of loaves and the mother killed a goose. Next morning she went for the woman. Before she went she left the goose down in a pot to boil and she told Tom who was a foolish sort of a fellow to look after everything until she would return.When she was gone, Tome looked at the goose to see it is was cooking alright. The steam burned his finger and he put it in his mouth. He thought the soup tasted good so he took up a mug of soup and drank it. After a while he got very hungry and he went to the pot again and took up the goose and ate her and he drank

minutes. At last she decided that he would make a good husband for her so she ran out to bring him in to marry him.The soldiers seized her and mounted her on the thinnest horse in the country and tied a two curt weight from each of her and let the horse have his head. In Mount Mary she was torn asunder.The ruins of the castle are in existence and the oven is still to be seen also.

I often heard the sotry of Naula No Misioj which I am now going to relate. Nuala Na Misioj resided in Glinsk Castle in which is an oven in the wall beside the fire-place for roasting men alive. There is a hole beside each window through which shots are fired.One time a crowd of men were gathered around the castle trying to capture her but instead she captured some of them and roasted them in the oven. They planned a trick by which they succeeded in catching her.They made an artificial soldier and put him on wires and then surrounded the castle leaving one door for an entrance. Nuala shot at him, he fell back but got up again. This continued for several

Gurteen and the owner of the field ploughed the land by mistake. The next morning when he awoke the field was covered with haw-thorn bushes. Several men tried to cut them down but could not succeed and the bushes and there yet to be seen.

There is a fort about two miles from my house and two women are seen making a churning every Tuesday night and the butter is seen outside on the fort in the morning. The owner of this field would not put his cows grazing in the field, because it was thought they used to bring the good of the cream from the cows that were driven into this field.There is another fort situated in

of Lisawooly sat a fiddler.When the old man asked this fiddler "whhy he say there in the cold" he replied "I was told if I came here to Lisawooly fort they in return would make me the best fiddler in Ireland. The old man continued his journey leaving the fiddler sitting in the fort playing sweet music.

when cutting it a thorn went into his eye and blinded him. Sometimes unbaptized children are buried in forts as it is said that the fairies brought away the live child when born.Lisawody Fort is in the centre of a large field owned by Mis Madden. It is supposed to have been built by the Danes. The fort is about 20 feet in circumference and is edged all round with hawthorn bushes which bloom profusely and give out nice perfume. The field in which this fort is situated is well watered and sheltered and has not been tilled for many generations. Lisawooly fort was in years gone by the residence of ghosts and fairies and they stole away children cows and horses and took them to the fort for the "good people" who lived there. One night in mid Winter when the moon was shining brightly, and stars were in the heavens, an old man was passing by Lisawooly. Suddenly he heard the most beautiful music. He listened and a melody soft and sweet came from the centre of the fort. The old man determined to find out who gave out such music for to his mind never was there heard music more sweet. The old man approached mounted the fort, and there in the centre

There is a fort not far from this school- Kilcroan and Lios na Gow or Knook an Gow it is called. In the centre of it there is a large flag under which there is supposed to be a crock of gold. There is a mound of earth around it and a kind of an entrance way into it where it is supposed there was a lift- up bridge.Another "Liss" is in John Tobin's field its proprietor being Don Flanagans at present. This "Liss" is in view of the one aforesaid, but its name is "Lios na Binna". It gets its name from the beautiful music that is heard in it from twelve o' clock at night to about day-break. Sometimes lights are seen in and fairies are supposed to be in it who take away young babies, In this fort there is a cave.In the next field to ours there was a fort but the ploughed it all up.this very fort was in view of the two I have mentioned. People say it is unlucky to plough a fort but so far no bad luck has come on him.I heard of a man who went to cut a bush which was growing on the ditch of a fort and

To cure the whooping cough they would kill a porcupine and drink its soup.When young children had the measles they were advised to drink a donkey's milk as it was a great cure.If a person got the ague and to swallow a live frog it would cure him."Oarglas" a mixture made green leaves and oat porridge was regarded a wonderful cure for wounds and cuts of all descriptions.A crane's spit was a great cure for a burn long ago, and laundry blue is a cure for a sting. "Macra compara" - a green thick herb was a great cure for broken limbs in fowl and garlic soup is a cure for a bad cough.Dock- leaf juice is a great cure for sore lips or for schorches received from nettles.Houseleek and whiskey was a cure for the yellow jaudice.Soap sugar and mashed "buachalan" were cures for stone bruises.A bit of black sheep's wool if steeped in castor oil is said to be a cure for a pain in the year.If a person sufferening from a stye in his eye got a thorn of a gooseberry bush and pointed it seven

The old people of long ago were very skillful as regards the use of herbs and plants as cures for diseases of all descriptions.Several of these cures were worked by charm. There were old men and women in this district Ballyglass and these alone had power to work it. An old man in my district was gifted with the charm for curing violent headaches. He used to do three different directions with a thread made of toe (the waste of flax). This he did on Monday's and Thursdays and on the following Monday again and said certain prayers on each occassion. The wearer kept the string on for a few days until gradually the pain disappeared.It is also supposed that the touch of the hand of the seventh son of a family cured boils and ringworm.It is also said that all sorts of sprains or dislocations on the limbs were cured by charm tying them with flax threads and saying certain prayers.

If sparks fly up at you out of the fire it is a sign of money coming to you.Green is an unlucky colour to wear.When sowing a crop the farmer should put a burnt coal into the bag of seed oats as it is regarded lucky.

are always regarded as unlucky places in our locality. If a person we going on a journey and to turn back it is said he would be disappointed in that journey.The old people say that to have two spoons in a cup of tea is a sign of a marriage.It is said if a person is making a churning he should put a burnt coal under it, and shake a grain of salt on the lid as it is said otherwise the fairies would take away the hitter.If a person came in while a churning is being made, he should twist the handle because it is said he would bring away the butter if he doesn't do so.If a cow calves on November's Day she shouldn't be milked as it is said the fairies milk her themselves and they would put bad luck on the person who would dare go milking her.A lighted candle should be put back and forth three times under a cow's belly and the sign of the cross made across her back after she calfing as it is said if it isn't done the fairies would bring her away.If hens have a great talking it is a sign that visitors are coming.It is unlucky to set a clutch of eggs on Good Friday.

The old people of my district are very "pisreoga" and superstitious and even to the present day the pisreoga still prevail among them. The following are some ; -If a cool fall from the fire someone is expected to come in. If it is a red hole it will be a woman and if it is a smoky sod it will be a man. If an old woman heard a woman whistling she would stop her as it is said that every time a woman whistles the Blessed Virgin bows her head in shame. When people are getting married the people of the village throw old shoes after them, and tie an old shoe to the car in which they travel. If you enter a graveyard and fall, it is supposed that you will be the next corpse. It is considered unlucky to wear a new garment for the first time at a funeral. Long ago when a pair got married it was the custom when the bride was entering her new home to break a cake of oat bread on her head.When the married pair was returning home from the marriage it was regarded unlucky to cross certain streams and bridges, for instance Blackers Bridge and Glassaroe

On St Brigid's night crosses are placed up on the walls of the kitchen. They are made of straw and sticks cut out in the form of a cross.
On Christmas Eve holly and laurel are put over the pictures in all the houses in honour of Our Lord.
On Palm Saturday all the people wear palm on their coats in memory of the palm that was strewn at our lord but when he was entering Jerusalem the Sunday before his passion.
On St. Patrick's day people wear shamrock in honour of St. Patrick. On May day branches are put over the doors in honour of the Blessed Virgin.

of the Fionna. He was a hundred years in Fir-na-n-og but he thought he was only a year there. All his friends when dead by now. Just then he saw a crows of men trying to lift a stone. He bent down to lift it but the stirrup broke and he fell to the ground. Immediately he was turned into an old man, withered and grey and old. The steed vanished from his sight and he saw it no more.

Oisin was the son of Fionn Mac bumhal and one of the Fionna. One day Oisin saw riding towards him a beautiful maiden mounted on a white steed. She came up to him and asked him to come with her to Fir-na-n-og. She told him that Fir-na-n-og was a beautiful land where people never got old or never died. Oisin consented to go and the lady took him behind her on the steed. They rode through hills and valleys until they came to Fir-na-n-og. There they got married and had a wedding which lasted for seven days and seven nights. Oisin and Naoimh lived in a beautiful palace and were very happy. At last Oisin asked leave of Naoimh to go back to Ireland to see his friends. Naoimh gave him a white steed and told him if he dismounted the steed or touched green sod he would be changed into an old man, withered and grey and old.
When Oisin came to Ireland he could see none

and eat them.

One Day Fionn was dining with "Conan Maol," A leg of beef and (or) an oatmeal cake they had for the meal. "Conan Maol" gave Fionn the leg of beed. Fionn ate it in a few bites and he asked if there was any more to eat. "Conan" said, I thought you would have enough in one leg of beef." Fionn replied, "Indeed I often ate a blackbird which was better than your leg of beef. "Conan Maol " then cursed the blackbirds, and his curse caused them to be small and useless. Previous to that blackbirds were very large and people used to kill

Long ago before there were any Medical Halls in Ireland the people

chin cough anything he will say will cure it.
To put salt under the tongue stops bleeding from the nose.
An onion made small and the centre if it put in the ear stops the pain.
A cure for hiccough is to stretch out your hand feel your pulse and think of where you saw the last sacrament administered.
To put a grey stone in the fire and then put it in to cold water and then to wash wounded skin it would with the water it would cure it
If a person cannot sleep at night to get up and eat an onion it would help him to sleep

There are a lot of cures besides going to a doctor. The cures are in the following. It is said that if you got burned with boiling water and you rubb breadsoda of it it would cure it.
If a thorn was within in your finger melted wax should be put on a cloth and tiedet round your finger it would draw it out.
If you had a tooth ache and you got a piece of cotton and put a little sup of orb in it and then you put it down in the hole of your tooth the tooth ache would go.
If there were cracks in your hand and you rubbed wax of it it would cure it.
If there were warts growing in your hand or foot and you got a snail and rubbed him of it and then stick him on a thorn bush, then when the snail would be withered the wart would wither.
If a person has boils the juice of a garlic a little bulb like an onion will cure them.
If you meet a man with a white horse and ask him what will cure the

old. The masters name was Thomas Comer and the pay he used ot get was twopence from each scholar. The boys and girls had no pens like we have now but they had to write on slates with white stones.
There was another in Esher. It was on the top of a hill and there is a big tree near the school. The boys and girls went to school together and they sat on boxes or blocks timber. The boys and girls used to go to school until they were 20 years old.
The masters name was Thomas Comer and the pay he used to get was two-pence from each scholar every week. The boys and girls had no pens like we have now. They had to write on a slate with a white stone.

Long ago there was a school below near Mary Mannions in Meelick. That time the teachers used to get only a small pay. They used to get only twopence a week. The teachers name was Michael Mannions. That time the scholars used to sit on blocks of timber and the master used to sit on a big block made of wood. The teachers used to teach mostly English that time. Some teachers used to teach some Irish. Aome scholars were good that time. The teachers used to stay only a short time in every school. Some teachers used to go out teaching in the houses. There was another old school in Esker. It was on the top of a hill and there was a big tree near the school. The boys and girls used to go to school together and they sat on boxes or blocks of timber. The boys and girls used to go to school until they were twenty years

used in the old chapel of Cahernicole.
Beside the old chapel is a rock called the mass rock because the mass was offered there before the erection of the chapel. Near it also is a cave in which the priests used to hide during the day as soon as they had mass said for fear of being put to death by the soldiers. It is one hundred and thirty years ago since the church was used.
The priests had very hard times during the penal laws and they often thought they would be put to death before they had mass read but than God these times are gone now.

There is an old chapel in the village of bahernacole which is a true relic of the penal times.
This chapel is built in a very secluded spot. It is surrounded by a great number of trees and a thick shrubbery. It is not visible from the road and a person may come upon it without knowing it was there at all.
It is built with rough stones mixed with red clay and its dimensions are fift four feet by twelve feet. A churchyard twenty four feet on each side surrounds and a pathway leads into it.
Today the chapel is very thickly surrounded by trees but long ago how thickly it must have been surrounded when the soldiers could not distinguish it from among the trees.
This old church replaced the parrish church in Kilmolara which is now in ruins.
The chalice which was used in Kilmolara was afterwards

told by; Thomas Burke
Ballyroarke
The Neale
Claremoms
Age 64

got up next morning there were two pairs of boots on the table and they were much nicer than the first pair. The shoemaker's wife said one day," We should remain up some night and thank whoever was making the boots. They did not go to bed at all the next night but hid themselves in the shoemaker's room where he made his shoe's. When it was past twelve o' clock two fairies came in and jumped up on the table. They had the boots soon made and were off before the shoemaker had time to thank them. He decided that it would be right to give a suit of clothes to each of the two fairies as a sign of thankfulness. When the fairies came the next time they got the suits of clothes, they then sang a song of thankfulness and praise to the shoemaker and his wife and away they went. The shoemaker or his wife never saw them again.

nearer. Thomas Burke did not stand but went on further. He heard walls falling and the goat came out over the wall. When he saw the goat he ran up after Stephen Contry whom he found standing beside a sandpit, listening to music in the water. He went to Stephen Contry's house and waited there all night. Next morning he examined the wall and saw it had not fallen. Some time after, Thomas Burke and some others were coming home from Creevagh long; they were near Ballyglass boreen, when a bright light rose and shone round them, went up straight into the air and disappeared.

Once upon a time, people went to fairs very early with pigs. There was a woman named Peggy Jose going to a fair one morning. She let her people go to the fair and she went to the house of friends of her's named Fox. She was near Ballyglass boreen when she saw a goat jumping round her. James Hoban and another man were going to the fair. James Hoban and another man were going to the fair. James Hoban went back with her. Some time after Thomas Burke was coming from barn after having been card playing, accompanied by Laurence and Stephen Conroy. When they were at Lacklaun village, Thomas Burke said "I might see Peggy Fox's goateen. Stephen Contry went across his own field and Thomas Burke came over the road. When he came near Ballyglas boreen he saw a black object coming towards him. It was like a big black goat with two large crooked horns and was coming nearer and

knew that it was a trap door. The weight of a person's body caused the trapdoor to open and whoever lay on the bed fell into a tunnel beneath it. The herd took his gun and shot four men who entered the room. On hearing the shots the rest ran away. The herd told the police what had happened and they found all the rich man's servants in the hidden tunnel beneath the bed. All the people who ran away were caught and hanged.

the money to Dublin. His master said "It will happen to you as it happened to the rest" but the herd persisted in his pleadings saying "at least give me a trial. At last the rich man consented and the herd was given the best horse in his stable, a good gun, plenty of ammunition and lastly the money to be lodged in the bank then he started off. At nightfall he went into a certain hotel. He ate his supper and was shown to his room. He saw a dog in it which he immediately recognized as his own dog. The herd did not pretend to have recognized the The dog remained in the herd's bedroom until the herd was going to bed. Then the dog jumped up and laid his two paws on the edge of the bed. The herd was surprised and went nearer the bed, but the dog jumped onto the bed which opened up in two parts, and the herd then

Long ago when there she was but one bank in Ireland and that one was in Dublin city. There was a rich man living near Ballina who had many servants. The rich man used to send his servants to Dublin to lodge his money in the bank. Yet every servant who went never reached Dublin as they were all robbed and murdered on the way. A herd who worked for the rich man was very much annoyed on finding his sheep killed every for a whole week. He watched carefully one night and found out to his surprise that his own dog was the culprit. The herd punished him so severely that he left the house and never returned.Some time afterwards the rich man told the herd what had happened to all the servants he had sent to the bank with money. The herd begged of his master to let him go with

a man coming towards him very quickly until he reached the circle. Then he began to walk round the circle until the man inside the circle threw some holy water on him, whereupon he went back some distance from the circle. Then he flung the bottle at the man who then vanished. Then Tom Farragher went home and he never slept on the roadside again.

About forty years ago a man named Thomas Farragher of Hilmains was returning home from the fair of Juan. He felt very satisfied because he had sold ten sheep and got a good price for them. He was very drunk and after a while he lay down on the roadside and fell asleep. After a while he got a blow on the head from some invisible person and he heard a voice saying "Go home and come here again this time tomorrow night. He went home and went to bed but he could not sleep. Next day he went to the parish priest and told him what had happened. The priest told him what had happened. The priest told him to cut a circle round the shot where he fell asleep and gave him a bottle of holy water to sprinkle on the circle. That night he went and cut the circle and sprinkled some of the holy water on it. He then stood in the centre of the circle. After a while he saw

picking.

Hoban was in mixking punch and he separated the two women, or they would smash and spill all that was in the house. At last the door was opened and the bridegroom was allowed in and all that had arrived. After their supper which consisted of potatoes, bacon, and cabbage and after an hours dancing the bride arrived. "Some said your welcome," and she answered in reply. "I'm landed whether I'm welcomed or not." Some went to shake hands with her, and the husband said, wont you see her again.
Above at the dresser the sister of the bridegroom was picking a bone and Tom Burke thought it was a mouth-organ she had and he said "Be the (whisp) willie the wisp you might give us a tune," and she said its the wing of a goose I am

they came on to blonbur chapel to get married. Some went into the chapel and others galloped home, as it was on horse-back and culloges they were.
Coming home at bahernagower bridge the bridegroom lost the bride and he did not turn back to pick her up. A cousin of hers "Pat Henelly" told her to remain there until he would leave the horse at and they would walk home together.
When the bridegroom arrives home to his house. A cousin of the bride was at the house, and a sister of the bridegroom was there also. The brides cousin said "He wont come in until he brings in his wife," and she closed the door. The bridegrooms sister caught her by the neck and said, hullalu wholl keep my brother out." Only for an old named

About sixty years ago a young couple were getting married, named Mary Lally and Martin Farragher. They had to cross the ferry of Kilbride and their was no bridge in it at that time. When the men came to the ferry, they had to give sixpence to three boys to mind their horses. They went across in boats themselves and the boat's man name was "Seainin na sham." They had to travel two miles on foot after coming out of boats to go to the brides house.
They ate plenty and they drank whips of poteen. Then the dance started and Tom Burke gave a jump and he skinned his head with the bog-dale beam, as the loft was low. After spending three hours in Kilbride

the last day because God and the devil are there below and they are saying "one for me and one for thee." Let is go down said the man until we see. When they went down they heard the men inside the wall saying "one for me and one for thee" and when they were finished counting they said what about the two out on the road. When the men on the heard this they thought it was themselves they were saying and they ran away as fast as they could.

began to divide them. When they were coming in one of them lost two nuts and the other man told him to go back for the nuts (and) he lost but the farmer said not to mind them until they would be coming out. When they were dividing them the man with the fruit kept saying . "One for me and one for thee" so as not to make a mistake. While they were dividing them a man approached on the road and when he was passing the graveyard he heard the talk inside which was an unusual thing and he listened and he heard the man saying. "One for me and one for thee." Then he ran up the town and he met a man coming down and the man asked him why was he frightened and he said that it was

There were two men one time who lived in a town. One day they were out hunting. In the evening the returned home and they put their horses in a stall for the night. When they were tying them one of them saw apples and nuts in a bag and he told his comrade-panion to watch at the door until he would fill his pockets filled the other man asked him for half of them. THe man with the fruit told him to wait until he would go down as far as the graveyard(s) and then he would divide them with him and the other man agreed and they both walked down to the graveyard. When they were as far as the place appointed they went inside the wall and they

After dinner she stayed inside pulling in the needle in place of her husband and the thatcher stayed outside on the roof. After a while the man told her to pull the string strong and when she did so he cut the string. This caused the woman to fall off the stool and she fell to the ground with a great crash and broke her ribs. The man then came running in and he asked her why did she pull so strong and break the string. The worm in never found out that he cut the string and the man was satisfied when that happened her.

There once lived in Ballyrourke a man and his wife. One dat they had a thatcher thatching. The way they used ti thatch that time was by means of a string and a big long needle. They sewed on the thatch. There was a man inside and a man outside on the rook one man pulled in the needle and the other man pulled it out and so on until the house was thatched.
Wells this man that had the thatcher went to town that day and he told his wife to ready a good dinner for the thatcher. The thatcher heard all this. The woman was a miser and when dinner-time came she only gave him the usual dinner of potatoes and buttermilk. The thatcher then was vexed and he said he would play a trick on the

the king into the Catholic church and when the congregation saw him they rushed out the doors and windows in a panic. Amidst all this the priest did not lose courage he stayed on the altar until he and the king went out. Then the king and his feathered comrade went into the Protestant church. As soon as the minister and the people saw him they ran out as quickly as they could. He followed the minister a half a mile until they came to a drain and the minister jumped into the drain and got drowned. This shows you what courage a Catholic has besides a Protestant.

There was once a king who was very sick. Every man in the village went to see him except one man. This particular man was very greedy for the work and he did not visit the king until Sunday. He went to visit him before mass and the king was standing at the hall door when he went to the palace. The king was angry with him when he did not visit him during the week. He then brought him into a room and he asked him would he do what he would tell him. The man said he would. The king then spread hot tar on the floor and he told him to roll on it naked. The man did so and he was soon covered with tar. The king then brought him into a second room where the floor was covered with feathers. The man was told to roll on the floor again and he was then covered with feathers. He then followed

man when he had passed the hill of Cnuikmea, "I did not see any of the fairies." Immediately he said these words out walked the man who had bought the cow from him and who had given him the magic glass; from underneath a hawthorn bush. "Give me that glass" said he "For you have used it badly." The man gave him the glass and never saw him again.

gave him an advice. He said "do not have any of the money you got for your cow, in your possession when the son goes down, if you do you shall regret it." The men on hearing this went into a shop and got silver in exchange for the soverigns he got for the cow. When the shopkeeper arose in the morning, he looked in his till and all he found there was a heap of broken china-ware and glass. Shortly afterwards the man who had sold the cow was going to the bog. On his way to the bog he saw three or four men pulling what appeared to be a bullock out of a bog hole with ropes. He looked through the glass and saw that it was an old bearded man who was in it. He asked the men what were in it. He asked the men what were they doing and they said they were pulling a bullock out of the bog hole.
"Arrah, you fools " said the man "isn't it an ould man you have in it." Then he told them to look through the glass he had with him. When they did theu sae that he spoke the truth and they left the enchanted bullock there. "Thank God" said the

Once upon a time a man was going to the fair of Castlekackett with a cow. When he was passing the hill of Cnuickmea, he met a man who asked him how much he wanted for the cow. He asked him how much he wanted for the cow. He asked what he thought was well enough. The men aggreed to give him the price he asked and told him to drive her inside the walls. The man did so and the cow was immediately driven up the side of the hill of Cnuickmea by another man. Then the man who had bought the cow said "I shall meet you at the fair tomorrow and I shall pay you for the cow." He gave him a little glass and said " At twelve o' clock tomorrow, look through this glass and you shall see me coming." The man then disappeared and the man who had sold the cow continued his journey to the fair. Next day he met the other man at the fair and was asked paid the price of the cow. The man left him the glass as a present and he also

Long ago there lived in Ireland, a smith who had only one son. The boy was about ten years of age and was strong and healthy. One day he got sick and had to be carried to bed. No one knew what had happened and the boy would not, or could not tell what befell him.
His father was very sad to see his son in such a state. One day he was in his forge, thinking about the boy, wondering if he would ever get better. Just then, in walked an old man, famed for his wisdom and cleverness. The smith told the old man all about his son and asked him to help him cure him. The old man was silent for some time, then he spoke and said "I do not believe it is your son who is at home. He has been carried away by the fairies and someone else is left in his place. Then the smith said, " Am I ever to see my dear son again". When he said this, the old man said to him "I will

There are certain number of customs for every feast of the year such as St. Brigid's Day which is held on the first of February. The custom is generally to make a straw-cross. This is done every year, since the time St Brigid herself made. When an old woman offered her a cup of milk which was poisoned. But St Brigid was inspired, and making a straw cross, laid it across the cup. The the poison had no effect.
St Patrick's Day held on the seventeeth of March. On that day all the Azlajzahfinp gather together in their own cities and a huge procession takes place before which three shots are fired off.
Also that day the people wear a sprig of shamrock. There are also badges representing a harp and shamrock. Girls donn themselves with gay ribbon and every one makes sure to have a green scraf or something.
April Fool's Day on the first of April. On that day, the people would pretend to others that they saw something and when the person would look of course they would fall into the trap and they would hear the mockery with "April Fool" ringing in their ears.

If one saw a black cat one should touch wood to bring good luck.
When there is a new moon one should turn their money in their purse. This enables one to be rich for life-time.
Whoever takes the last piece of bread on the plate will remain single for ever.
If one breaks a Plum Pudding in half, there will be a death in the house before the New Year will be out.
Whoever is eating the longest at the table will live the longest.
Bad luck will befall one for walking under a ladder.
If one meets a red-haired woman in the morning = bad luck for the remaining part of the day.
If one should kill a spider it will rain.
To possess good luck for the day, miss the thirteenth step of the stairs in the morning.
On the twenty-fifth of January, The Conversion of St. Paul, there is a superstition attached to it.
If there is a storm on that day a Great War will follow.
If one gets a stir of the Plum Pudding mixture, it will

When St. Patrick was travelling through Ireland a chieftain named Mannan lived in Donaghmoyne. The St offered to teach him the true faith but he refused to hear of it. After much arguing an enchantment came on the chief. A small deep lake arose and Mannan was chained at the bottom of it.

the fire, then made a hot cup of tea. When he had the tea taken he went upstairs and found the old man. Then he got a big dish of boiling water and emptied it on the old man.

Once upon a time there lived an old man in County Monaghan. This man believed in ghosts. But one night while he was in bed he hears a knock at the window. The old man was too much afraid to open the door, so he crept under the bed. The ghost came in and lit the

The night became very rough and stormy and as they were at Tully bridge a pot was blown from a house near by. Finn and the giant followed it and they got it beside Loughnagergeman. The sat down and the giant said he was very hungry and tired. Then Finn caught some fish in the lake and boiled them for himself and the giant. When they had finished their meal the giant became ill and died. Finn buried him ,se, beside the lake and then returned to his camps. He spent the rest of his life happily and when he died he was buried on Finn barn to where he threw the stone. His grave and stone can be seen yet.

Once while Finn Mac boole was on Archie Fionn a giant came to him. He challenged him to fight and the fought for two days and two nights without stopping. When they had stopped the giant told (When they, Finn to perform some feat. Finn went to a nearby quarry and got a huge stone and threw it about five miles to Finn barn beside Anafarcon.
The giant said that was no feat compared to what he could do. He asked Finn to run him a race and they ran until it was dark.

Once upon a time a man named Pat Mangan was coming home from a fair. It was about eleven o' clock at night. On his way home he passed by the home of the fairies [lnuikmea] He was stopped by a group of men whem he knew were more than twenty years dead. One of them who was once his next door said to him "Do not be afraid, I will be to your back and I will see that you be left back here safe and sound again. I give you one warning however, do not eat on or drink anything while you are with us, if you do know misfortune will surely come of it. Then he found himself with the fairies inside the hill of lnuickmea. They told him that they fought a battle with the fairies of the North every year: if the lonnaught fairies won the crops in Lonnaught would be very good. while the crops in the North would not be worth reaping. If the

The "Cure of the Nine Lions" is remembered in the district.
Chincough: It was believed that this could he cured if the patient met a man on a grey horse and asked him for a cure. Anything the man would suggest would be regarded as a cure.
Headache: The charm consisted in measuring the head twice around and once from nose to the crown of the head and saying certain prayers. Wednesday was the day on which the charm was believed to be efficacious. Only one measurement was to be made on each occasion.
Sore Eye: This ailment waas believed to be cured by pointing a gooseberry thorn a certain number of times at the eye of the patient.
Thorn in hand, foot, etc.: A fox's tongue was thought to be capable of extracting a thorn. This belief exists to the present day