Volume: CBÉ 0189
- Date
- 1935
- Collector
- Locations
Archival Reference
The Main Manuscript Collection, Volume 0189, Page 236
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- (continued from previous page)Whitechurch is name of a townsland between Taghmon an Glyan. One of the biggest patterns in the country is help there, in the graveyard, at the present time. on 6th July, or the nearest sunday to it the patter is held.
About a hundred years ago, there used to be a three days pattern held there, and was cars of sweets and and cakes and sugar-sticks, three card tricks, and wheel of fortune and every kind of a devil in it. Ould women used go around selling whiskey. Biddy Kane was the name of the ould woman that sold the whiskey around here. She used give it out in an ould pewter vessel.
The patter nearly always ended(continues on next page)
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