In Killallon Clonmellon there is a warty well.

Collected by Kevin Cahill from Christopher Reilly Claneveran, Clonmellon, Co. Meath

There is a tree near Clonmellon called the 'nailers bush'. It is so called because a nail maker used to live beside the bush. The tree is on the main road from (Mícéal Ó Cle) Clonmellon to Kells. It is about a half-mile from Clonmellon. It can get no information as to the name of the nailer.

The Móinín

Delvin Road from Clonmellon to Delvin. Kells road from Clonmellon to Kells; it was made in the year 1838. Kilrush road from Clonmellon to Athboy. Kilskyre road from Clonmellon to Kilskyre.

"Cnoc na Riogh" is situated in the townland of Clonmellon. There is an entrance hole in it.

There is a well in Jim Ball's field it is called St Anns well. It was on the side of the road, but a Connaught man washed his feet in it and it moved out to the field. The well is near the river on the left hand side as you go to Clonmellon about thrity yards the Killallon side of Mc Donnell's gate. There was a Saint in Killallon and one day a wild pig followed him. The pig took a drink out of St. Anns well and he died. There was a graveyard in Ball's field on the road from Dalys of Killallon to Clonmellon. There was a Chapel ther also, and Cromwell knocked it. One day two men were building a ditch beside the graveyard and they found bones of people. There is a well at the end of Clonmellon

The old school of Clonmellon used to be owned by the Chapmans the time they were living in Killua. They used it for teaching the Protestants of Clonmellon. The school teacher was Mrs Kelly of Clonmellon. When Mrs. Kelly gave up teaching the school broke up, and the Protestants started going to the present Girls School. The school was built in the one thousand, eight hundred and thirteen.

There is a pass leading from Hartstown Boreen to Clonmellon. It comes out beside the Catholic Church. Another path also leads from Rosy Smith's on Hartstown boreen to Killallon. This pass leads through the field for about a quarter of a mile and then joins another boreen which leads out on the Killallon road at McCormacks. There is a path leading from Jim Farrelly's of Hartstown Kilskyre, to Clonmellon. It is only a mile and a Half by the path, and it is nearly three miles by the path. A horse and cart can come from Hartstown to Clonmellon by the path. A few people come to Mass by this path.

Christy Leavy, Kilrush, Clonmellon has the cure of running ring-worm, and of the toothache also.
James Martin Clonmellon, has the cure of the "burst". There is a well in Killanan called the spa well, the water has the cure of the sore eyes.
Mrs Daly Clonmellon can make ointment to cure burns.
Mrs Gary Clonmellon has the cure of the thorn.
Mrs Fitzsimons mother Clonmellon can make ointment to cure pock on the tits of cow, it is made from carbolic soap and goats milk.
Francis Meehan has the cure of the sore mouth.
Michael Casserly Cloncat has the cure of the ring worm.
Mrs Craford Kilalon has the cure of the burns.

There were two men going home from the fair of Kells with horses. One was named Coffey and the other Lynch. They met together in Clonmellon and challenged each other at the forge to a race. Lynch fell off his horse at Ballinlig and was killed at the place where the cross still stands. There is a boxwood growing around the Cross. It is about 3/4 of a mile from Clonmellon on the Delvin Mullingar Road.

The [green] Green Fields are so called because they were never tilled. They [were never tilled] are in the parish of Clonmellon.
"The Milking Field" is called that because it was used for pasturing cows. It is in the parish of Clonmellon.
"The Well Field" is so called because there is a big well in it. It is in the parish of Clonmellon.
"Donlon's Field is so called because the Donlon's used to live there long ago and the tracks of the wall's are to be seen today. It is in the parish of Clonmellon.
"The Hangman's Bush" got its name beause a man hanged himself on it. I do not know where it is

Clonmellon is the name of my home district. It is in the townland of Clonmellon and in the barony of Delvin. There are eighty families in the townland. there are three hundred and seventy five people in the townland. Reilly and Garry are the most common famaily. Slated houses are the most common. I don't know anything else about it.

I live in the townland of Clonmellon, the parish of Clonmellon and the barony of Delvin. There are about ninety families in the townland. "Reilly is the most common in the townland. Slated houses are most common. There are about nine people over seventy in the townland.

"The Well Field" is situated a quarter of a mile outside Clonmellon on the Kilskyre road. It is called the "Well Field" because there is a well in the field. When the pumps of Clonmellon used to go dry the people of the town came out to the "Well Field" for water.

The nearest fort to Clonmellon is "Cnoc na Ríogh". It is circular and is covered with trees. It is in the townland of Hartstown. There is an entrance hole to it. It was built by the Danes.

There is a little rock in a field in Cnoc Na Rioz. It is called St. Patricks rock. the people around Clonmellon district say that St. Patrick knelt on it.

In a yard belonging to Tom Fay, Clonmellon there stands a large iron pot supposed to have been used by the power people to boil indian porridge in the years of the famine. This porridge was made in the Market Square, Clonmellon.

Long ago there lived outside Clonmellon, in a house called Milltown, a man called Mr. Kearney. One

The present church of Killallon is the fourth built in the parish. The remains of the first church are still to be seen opposite Mr. Bell's gate on the road leading from Killallon to Clonmellon. The Holy water font was taken from the ruins of this church and placed on a mound of earth and stones on the side of the road about ten perches on the Clonmellon side of Mr. Ball's gate. This Font is circular in shape and fills with rain-water for a good part of the year. People, having warts, wash them in this water and pin a cloth to a whitethorn bush which overhangs the Font or well as it is called as a thanksoffering for the cure effected. The local people have great reverence for this font as it reminds them of their ancestors, who crossed themselves with the water from this font in the time long gone by.