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  1. (gan teideal)

    “Long ago the tide used to come from Kilmore Quay to Baldwinstown.”

    CBÉ 0190

    Long ago the tide used to come from Kilmore Quay to Baldwinstown. Kilmore is about four miles from Baldwinstown. There are a lot of signs that it did come up as far as that

  2. Wake Games

    CBÉ 0190

    There is a man living in Kilmore Quay at the present time "by the name of James Cousins but he is generally called Big Wind. The night he was born was an awful stormy night, There were hundreds and hundreds of trees blown down, and a lot of dwelling houses and righs of straw in a farmers' haggards were blown for miles. There was one man down in Kilmore on that night, and there was a rick of straw blown away on him, and when he got in the morning he couldn't see any sign of the straw.
    Which winds, or 'hurlwinds' one very plentiful in the vicinity of Kilmore. They generally come from the east, and usually on a day that there is not a breath of wind to be felt.

  3. Legends of St. Patrick

    CBÉ 0106

    St Patrick was another time driving the devil out of Ireland. He happened on him somewhere about the middle of Ireland, and he drove him southwards. When the devil came to the place known as the Devil's Bit, he took a huge bite of the land and ran away in the direction of Wesford. He ran on until he came to the Duncannon and St. Patrick following. He ran from Duncannon to Bannow, from Bannow to Duncormick and from Duncormick to Kilmore. When he got to Kilmore he was cornered, so he had no alternative but take to the water and into the water he went with his big load in his mouth. St. Patrick followed on until he came to the edge of the water and found he could go no further. He took up a

  4. Land Grabbing

    CBÉ 0220

    in every possible way. He exhorted them to be brave and to hold out to the bitter end and their reward was in store for them. He told them to beware of the land grabbers and not to associate with them at all, as he said Kilmore was haver with Orangemen but they went to mass. The landlord owned a large track of land down around Kilmore and wan time the priest was called on a sick call and he had to up across the landlord's land to get to this poor man. That time he went up foot and as he was to crossin' this land the landlord's son tries to stop him but the priest says to him "You stop where you are till I'm coming back" So the man couldn't stir hand or foot and the priest left him standing there for two days and when he came back and released him, and the priest said to him. "You and your father will fill a pauper's grave" and they did. His father died of starvation and the rats

  5. (gan teideal)

    “Long ago there were houses on the Saltee Islands and there was a man named Park...”

    CBÉ 0190

    Long ago there were houses on the Saltee Islands, and there was a man named Parle lived on it and he had a lot of fine cows. There was an old witch in Kilmore and one day she went across to the Islands to take the butter from these cows. She went across and she got on all

  6. (gan teideal)

    “Long ago there were houses on the Saltee Islands and there was a man named Park...”

    CBÉ 0190

    night, but when she was coming back she saw on the quay of Kilmore, and he knew what she was after doing, and he told her that he would tell on her. "Well" says she "you can tell on me when you think of it." The old witch lived away for years, and then she died, and about an hour after she dying the man thought of telling on her. She had cast some kind of a spell over him.

  7. (gan teideal)

    “There is an ould rath here in Kilmore and this day a man went out to plough...”

    CBÉ 0220

    There is an ould rath her in Kilmore and this day a man went out to plough it up and he did plough it up the whole lot of it, and when the job was finished he came home with the two horses under the plough and as he was coming home didn't the two horses drop down dead. That's as sure now as then telling you the story.

  8. (gan teideal)

    “Every time a storm is coming a light is seen...”

    CBÉ 0220

    Dún Chormaic, Co. Loch Garman

    Every time a a storm is coming a light is seen out on the ocean at Kilmore. The officer saw it wan night and thought twas a boat in distress and they went out to it. The light kept moving away from them. They had four sets of oars on the boat and they couldn't get up to the 'light'

  9. (gan teideal)

    “There was a man wan time in the vicinity of Kilmore...”

    CBÉ 0221

    There was a man wan time in the vicinity of Kilmore and whenever he would go into a house he would always look in the pot on the fire. If there was a lid on the pot he would take it off and look down in the pot. When he would go in to a strange house the people of the house would ask him why he done that. All he would say is that he had power to do so, and had his own reasons for doing-it.

  10. (gan teideal)

    “When the present school thay is in Kilmore...”

    CBÉ 0221

    in all his life heard the like of it. They told him that they never heard a sound, but he would scarcely believe them. There are people in Kilmore Quay who will tell you that this is a fact.

  11. John Doyle and the Poteen

    CBÉ 0106

    There was a man once lived Kilmore Quay over seventy years ago by the name of John Doyle. When he was eighteen years of age he got married and lived very well for a number of years until he found himself the owner of seven children. The poor man then got it hard enough trying to rear them. One morning he turned up late for work and the boss being in a bad temper told him to go home and never show his nose in the place again. Poor John went home and spent a whole week trying to get work but failed. He went out one morning after having a frightful row with the woman and sat down on the top of a hill, and began to

  12. (gan teideal)

    “One morning at Kilmore Quay...”

    CBÉ 0190

    One morning at Kilmore Quay when the tide was gone out the people of the locality noticed a big bawk of timber lying on the strand. It was about twenty feet long and very thick
    One man said that it was a fine piece of wood whereain it came from, and

  13. (gan teideal)

    “It is a custom in the Co. Wexford that when a person goes in to a dairy he or she must say "God bless the work"...”

    CBÉ 0190

    It is a custom in the Co. Wexford that when a person goes in to a dairy he or she must say "God bless the work" or they must take a hand at the churn. There are certain people and they are unlucky. If they happen to go into a dairy something is sure to happen There was one man went in to a dairy down in Kilmore and he didn't say"God bless the work" or anything, and then after some time he went off. The woman who was churning couldn't stop. There was some kind of a spell on her. She churned away and didn't speak to anybody and the people thought that she was going mad. They

  14. Land Grabbing

    CBÉ 0220

    and mice tore him to pieces and the same thing happened the son a few years afterwards. During those years of 1849 , 1850, and 1851. There was almost a famine around Kilmore. The sun hardly ever shined but it rained week in week out and all through the summer months and the people thought that the end of the world was near as one couldn't distinguish the summer from the winter, only by the length of the days. There were no crops at all and any corn that was sown lay down flat but the weeds and thistles grew up straight so that the corn never ripened, there were no potatoes at all, and hundreds of people died of starvation. I remember that time well. After that Parnell went over to Scotland and he brought back new potatoes called champions, these were might potatoes and they grew so long that they used to be hollow in the middle. He also brought back some seed barley. There were also potatoes

  15. (gan teideal)

    “It was a man named Whitty who built the big old Norman Castle in Kilmore...”

    CBÉ 0220

    It was a man named Whitty who built the big old Norman Castle in Kilmore and those Whitties lived ther for centuries afterwards. A man named Whitty a direct descendant of these headed the rebel army in "Ninety Eight" and there was a price on his head so he ran with his wife and took refuge on the big island of the Saltees. In the west end of this Island there is a cave and there he took refuge. He looked out this time anyhow to see if his pursuers were coming and they were coming and they saw him peeping out so they captured him and took him prisoner. It is said that the woman cut her foot against a stone and there are three drops of blood there still on that stone and they can be seen even to this day. Well they brought

  16. (gan teideal)

    “There was a boat load of fish came into Kilmore...”

    CBÉ 0221

    There was a boat load of fish came into Kilmore one day and the people of the boat wanted to sell them of course. There was a gentleman living at the Quay that time and he said that he would buy some of the fish if they would clean them out for him. He said that he lived by himself and didn't know anything at all about fish. They said they would of course and he bought a dozen from them and then they started to clean them out. When they were cleaning them out they came upon a powerful big fish and when they opened him a big hare jumped out of it and ran away like the divil. When the hare was gone along the road about one hundred yards, and was passing by a farmer's place a hound ran after it and it wasn't long until he caught it.

  17. (gan teideal)

    “When the present school thay is in Kilmore...”

    CBÉ 0221

    When the present school that is in Kilmore was being built there was a large rock in the earth, and of course it had to be removed. There was a large hole out in the rock and then blasting powder was put into it and set fire. Everyone around wondered when the rock was blown up that there was no report. There were a crowd of people there and they were looking on of course they were at a safe distance, but nobody heard any noise only wan man, and he was the parish priest. He came along to where the rock was and he told them that it made an awful noise down at his place, that he never

  18. (gan teideal)

    “Biaconi, the man who invented the stage coach had a hotel...”

    CBÉ 0221

    Bianconi, the man who invented the stage coach had a hotel in Ballymagyr. Some of the old roads are to be seen still and there are people in the village of Kilmore who could tell you all about them and could trace them all over the county.
    The ruins of the old hotel are to be seen to this day.

  19. (gan teideal)

    “There is a man living at Kilmore by the name of Pat Walsh...”

    CBÉ 0221

    There is a man living at Kilmore by the name of Pat Walsh, and he is a sailor. One night they were on a ship and the wind was blowing a heavy gale and the rope that was holding the stays ail gave way. Pat went and started to make fast the rope and as he was doing it there was a man holding the light to him. Now this man wasn't belonging to the ship Pat knew and he also knew that the lamp didn't belong to it, for it gave forth a beautiful light. Pat himself says that it was his guardian angel came to help him. Pat will tell anybody that it was none of the members of the ship.