Imleabhar: CBÉ 0407 (Cuid 1)

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1. (gan teideal) (ar lean)

   “My father had a mule...”

   

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   horse that was according to prophecy to give all mules a long holiday. On rushed the train but the mule wouldn't budge. My father jumped clear in time, thinking that the mule's days were over. Not so, however. He jumped clear in time."
   [Above story (1) local manufacture of reaping-hooks for commercial distribution or(2) means of transport and (3) the meeting of the new & the old regimes] BIRCH BARK : -
   The grandfather also did much trade with a firm in Kilkenny in birch bark so necessary at that time for the tanning business.

   

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2. Rosscat, Battle of Cats

   

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   Níl tú logáilte isteach, ach tá fáilte romhat tras-scríobh a dhéanamh go hanaithnid. Sa chás seo, déanfar do sheoladh IP a stóráil ar mhaithe le rialú cáilíochta.

   Rosscat, BATTLE of Cats, Ancient & Modern: "This townland, S of Tullow, scene of a dreadful battle of cats long long ago. Thousands of dead cats were found lying all over the place next morning"(M'athair) Old man told me 4/Aug/1911: In olden times great fight of cats here. Cats of all classes, colours & sizes collected here & in the morning the plain was covered with dead cats - many ornamented with most precious jewels set in collars etc." Many pools here in dug-out bog: Loc an choinin, Loc ruadh and Big field(Gleann Mor) to S on Ardristan boundary. Now, one of your great Dublin priests (Father Ronan, I think) described in Sunday Independent, a year or two ago, a dreadful battle of cats wh. took place in his time in Merrion if I remember rightly. This latter ac/c offers an extraordinary parallel to the Rosscat legend or tradition. N.B "Loch an Choinín," also,

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