Father Hickey, P.P. of Doon (1) who spent all his life fighting and bullying landlords and Tories and to arrest whose cow 'the whole British army' infantry and cavalry was sent to Doon, had another side to his character.
"Father Hickey want to have martyrs. He wanted the people to die for the faith. He had a big field of turnips growing beside his house the year of the famine and he had 2 men minding it with sticks lest any poor person might take a turnip to save himself or herself from death. The people in Gurtavalla suffered most that
(1)Father Hickey, born 1788 at------------near Thurles. Officiated in Doon Parish 1824 -1874. Died aged 86 yrs

CAPPA = Cappawhite parish1. "If you come to the hurling with me, I'll give you the best time you ever had in your life in the 'Stradda Mhór'"
Formerly the Main St of Thurles. Isn't this an extraordinary case of metathesis? "Str" for "tSr, (Thurles)
2. "That's another day of the week ", ie a different matter , or aspect of the question, altogether (Doon and Cappa).
3. 'That's what makes the land dear'. Said to a person; or of a person, wh is fond of interfering. from Land War (Doon and Cappa).
4. "We never died of a winter yet". Cheer up. While there is life there is hope. (Doon).
5. "I never killt a man or burnt a house" - nobody can accuse me of anything out of the way (Doon).
6. "It's not the cow with the big dug that gives all the milk". Appearances are deceptive - don't take book by the cover (Doon).
7. "The big feather for the big tick" - rich associates with rich .
8. "As dead as a cock" = as a door nail (Doon and Cappa).
9. A Dhómhnaill Uí Chonaill, dtuigeann tú Gaedhilge? Time for us to be clearing out of here (Doon).
10. "We're you ever drunk at a fair? " Said to spur one to his best endeavour (Doon) from faction fights.
11. "What gobán made that?" = handyman, spoil-stick (Doon)
12. "As deaf as a bīttle" (Doon and Cappa).
13. As cowld as a plough (Doon)
14. "Put the clock up" (Doon)= the clock is slow. Advance the hands. "Train time will be up an hour tomorrow"

M QUIRKE: You all knew little 'Cricky' Anderson that went to America with my brother, Paddy. He was coming home from Thurles one night, himself and one of the Quirkes after selling a load of pigs. It was a bright moon-light night. When they were coming up from Lysaghts. towards the railway bridge, they saw THE rat, crossing the road. He went across in front of them as quiet as you like dragging his big long tail behind him. He crossed into the grove over the little stile on your right-hand side. As soon as he got into the trees, you never heard such a noise in your life. The two men were sure all the trees were after falling down in a heap. They never heard such a 'racket' in their lives".
MISE: "Did this happen before or after Father McKeown had ridded the Convent of the unwelcome visitor?"
M QUIRKE: "After. You see Father McKeown only put him out of 'the great house'. He didn't confine him anywhere.N.B. One of the characteristics of an evil spirit masquerading as THE rat is the extraordinary noise he makes once he leaves the high-road and finds himself on grass or under trees. G. story told by me in Book 1 about THE rat or, as we call him here in our School of Folklore, 'Mr Rat'. "If you meet the rat tonight and you going home, mind you don't step on his tail".

Latter expression is a reference to the common saying 'as rich as Damer'
Mise: Who was Damer
M. Flood: Damer was a chandler in Cromwell's army. It was his business to buy the tallow and make the candles. He went to Thurles one day and went into the tallow merchant's store. He was feeling the barrel and picking out the heaviest ones. He came on one very heavy cask standing by itself. He said to himself he'd have that one anyway. So, when there was nobody looking he rolled it over and put it in the middle of the barrel he had picked out. He paid his bill and loaded the tallow on his MULES. He was barely gone when the owner of the store missed the barrel but what could he do? It was gone with Cromwell's soldiers. It was a case of good-day to you. That's how Damer started collecting his gold.
Stranger: What was in the barrel?
M Flood It seems that some time previous when the people of Cashel heard that Cromwell was coming. They knew that he would rob the chapels and monasteries and the convents so they collected all the sacred vessels and all the treasures belonging to the church and put them into a barrel of tallow, thinking that that was the safest possible place to