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  1. Copy of an Order to Repair Mearings in the Year 1853

    CBÉ 0463

    Copied from the diary of Thomas Hurley of Carlock Ballymoe born in the year 1789 County Galway to wit
    Upon complaint made made against you, Thomas Naughton, caretaker and Herd of Ballymoe Temple in the Barony of Ballymoe, in said County, upon Summons duly served on you and proved at the Petty Sessions of Ballymoe on the 20th May 1853, that you would not, or did not repair your part of the mearing of the lands of Ballyglass aforesaid which you were bound to do. I hereby order that you shall have said mearing made up, on or before the 3rd day of June next otherwise I'll give an order upon said day, that the said mearing shall be repaired by George O'Beirne and that you pay the expense of same. Given under my hand this the 20th day of May 1853. Copy Thomas N. Bagot

  2. (gan teideal)

    “There was a king in Ireland long ago and he had wan daughter,...”

    CBÉ 0190

    found the ship waiting for them. They got on board and you may swear she wasn't long bringing them back to Ireland. When they landed Jack saw the man and his water dog, and the ship turned into a handkerchief and it went into the dogs ear. Jack and the princess set out then on foot for the kings palace. They had about a day's walk but at last they got there. You may be sure the king was overjoyed and surprised when he saw Jack and the princess coming back. He ordered a great big feast to be given in their honour which lasted for a couple of days.
    Jack and the princess fell in love with each other and the end of it was they got married. The was

  3. Piseoga

    “There are many superstitions about May Day.”

    CBÉ 0220

    There are many superstitions about May Day.
    In mostly all places farmers would never
    like to sell milk on May Day. They'd consider
    it unlucky, and they used to be afraid that
    their milk and butter would be taken.
    The person who'd buy the milk could get the power
    to take the butter.
    It happened in this district (Littlecullenstown) that a
    farmer sold milk wan time on May Day. He sold it to a neighbour who he knew well,
    and for months after, when he'd churn, there
    was nothing in the churn but only a small
    bit of white butter, and you couldn't
    look at, let alone to ate it, with the
    smell that was from it.
    Skimming the Well ~~~ I often heard of
    "skimming the Well" on May morning.
    A person would go out at break of day on
    a May morning; she'd have a kind of an
    instrument, a vessel of timber, or
    a piece of a stick, and she'd skim the
    well towards her own direction, in

  4. (gan teideal)

    “Ye want a sthory about people not attendin' Mass because they had a dispute wit the phriesht.”

    CBÉ 0463

    Ye want a sthory about people not attendin' Mass because they had a dispute wit the phriesht. Well I heard this wan. There was a murdher committed down the way wan time. That id below Rhivershtown somewhere, an' there was a man hanged for it. an' there was a man there who was at the thrial, an' who witnessed the hangin' an' he came to the conclusion from what he saw an' heard, that the man was hanged in the wrong. The Parish Priest happened to be there at the execution too, an' the man who witnessed it, became very angry wit the priest because he didn't prevent the other man from being hanged, an' he was so angry is that he'd never go to Mass a day after.
    He was keeping his promise well, for he was turnin' out to be a terrible character, an' thinkin' o' sayin that there was no God at all, when this day he met the priest on the road. The phriesht sthood up to talk to him, an' he asked him, what the reason that he was turnin' so much agin God, an' him a good Catholic at wan time. The man spoke up his reason. "Well" sez the priest "Never mind about that execution, the man may, as yershrel said have never committed the murder, but he may have done something else in his past life, that fully deserved hangin' if

  5. (gan teideal)

    “It is a very lucky thing to lie down in a bunch of ferns for Our Lord slept in them.”

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    wheat in the same field so they went over to where they were and told the workmen that if anybody came along inquiring which way they went to tell them the truth. The workmen said they would and the next day a crowd of men came into the field where the men were working and the field that was sowed the day before was ripe to-day. So they asked the workmen did they see anyone passing this was lately and they told them that they passed that way when they were sowing the field of wheat. These men then thought it wouldn't be worth their while going any further after hearing this, so they went back. The Jews were searching for our Lord another time and it was on the 1st day of May and

  6. (gan teideal)

    “I have heard another story of a man who had three sons.”

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    laugh out in earnest. Anyhow the three of them lived away together for sometime and the youngest son was his best to try and please his two brothers, but it was no use. James found that no matter what he done it wouldn’t do them. It was very hard for him to live with them he found out. The two brothers got very careless about their work on the farm and at last all their crops began to go against them and some their animals died and they were in no luck at all. And worse than all they began to drink and used be found in the public houses every day, and even in the middle of the day when every sensible man would be working. You may be sure the kind of a life that poor James had

  7. Kilmachree Chapel

    CBÉ 0460

    Cill Mhic Croí, Co. Loch Garman

    Scarcely a trace is now to be seen of the little chapel which was so venerated in days gone by at Kilmachree. In this chapel lived, I may say man of the holiest men and priest that ever lived. He was a priest by the name of Father Kelly. Father Kelly was born near Kilmachree at a place called The Mill. He was a very holy man and became curate of Piercestown to which the chapel of Kilmachree belonged and he lived at his father's house at the Mill. He always visited the sick, the dying and all who wanted his aid, on foot, and all the rest of his time was spent within the little chapel of Kilmachree, at the foot of the altar. Soon he spent night and day within the chapel but was always ready on the moment to go on a sick call, at any hour. He ate very little food of any kind, and usually fasted until the

  8. Jack the Strongfella

    CBÉ 0460

    form and spirits, and at eleven oclock he sent for the men who had been working with him, and who had left him because they were all afraid of Jack. All there came back at about twelve oclock and they were delighted to get back for they had no job since they left the giant and they were all delighted when they heard what the giant had done in order to get rid of Jack. They were all eating their dinner and were laughing and talking about the day the day that they were sinking the pump when a great noise was heard outside. They all rushed out and you may imagine their surprise when they saw me bould Jack standing in the middle of the yard and a crocadile at each side of him. The men all let screeches out of themselves and ran for their lives, and there was nobody standing in front of Jack now but

  9. (gan teideal)

    “There was a king in Ireland long ago and he had wan daughter,...”

    CBÉ 0190

    satisfied enough with Jack and on their marriage day he left all he had to Jack, so put down the kettle and make the tay and if they didn't live happy that you and I may.

  10. The Two Sisters

    CBÉ 0220

    new Year he said, "Well Poor --- Brady is gone and you may pray for him but I can't." He turned around again and continued his Mass. Well that story is a true one as I often hear my mother telling it and she says that she heard her mother saying that she remembers seeing the coal on the road the next day and hearing Canon Foley's words.

  11. (gan teideal)

    “This is the conclusion of what I sent in, in my last book. It concerns the work that goes on in a farmhouse kitchen.”

    CBÉ 0190

    get plenty of them at every meal, especially during Lent. Easter as a rule comes early in April, and there is great rejoicing. The children get two weeks holidays and are a great help at this time both inside and out in the fields helping to sow the potatoes, etc. When the school opens again we have the early summer. May with all its beauty is soon with us. The breakfast is at 7 o clock, and the dinner is at twelve sharp. The tea is at three in the evening and the supper at seven.
    From this month until September all rest, both women and men for about an hour or an hour and a half after dinner, as this is the warmest part of the day. Then when September comes they take no rest as the days are getting cooler and warmer. The old people lie on

  12. (gan teideal)

    “This is the conclusion of what I sent in, in my last book. It concerns the work that goes on in a farmhouse kitchen.”

    CBÉ 0190

    the money for some what may she is sure to be in town that day. It doesn't matter what money she gets during the year for chickens butter, eggs, etc. She will spend it there and then on groceries but the turkey money is kept to buy boots shoes, and clothes and whatever else is needed for the daughters and herself. The turkeys are sold about a fortnight before christmas, so the girls get a big day out in town to buy a warm coat or hat and to see the shop windows that are so gaily decorated at this time.
    The next big event is preparing for Christmas. There is a big "clean up" again. It is a very busy time for the bean-a-tigh. The kitchen is white washed, and holly and ivy is put

  13. Piseoga

    “There are many superstitions about May Day.”

    CBÉ 0220

    the direction of her own house. While she'd be doing that she'd be saying some words working the charm, and she'd take all the butter belonging to her neighbour. Wan morning a young man was coming home from a dance. Twas just about break of day on a May morning. On his way home he had to pass by a well. When he came near this well he heard a voice. He peeped in over a ditch and there he saw a woman who he knew very well and she skimming the well, and saying some strange words. He jumped up on the ditch and shouted down to her. "I'll take half of it" He was only joking of course. He didn't mean a bit by it. The woman got a terrible start and she never said one word but bundled up and off she went.
    The next day the were churning at this man's house. They had only one or two cans, and they used only have enough of butter to do themselves. Any way this day when they were churned, the churn got so full

  14. (gan teideal)

    “There was a girl working down in Horetown with some of the gentry there.”

    CBÉ 0460

    There was a girl working down in Horetown with some of the gentry there. And of course they were all very grand. This day, 'twas very warm, and the girl was working in the kitchen and the mistress came on to her, and asked her how she was going on. "Oh", says the girl, "I'm sweating". "Oh", says the mistress, "You mustn't say that, say I'm in a state of perspiration."
    Next day they had a party and there was a grand crowd entirely inside in the parlour; and the girl had to bring in dinner to them. The mistress asked her how was she going on: "Oh says she it's very warm, and I could piss over the nation."
    So begor she left her so after that. If she may leave her as she was at first she was alright.

  15. Gruel Pot

    CBÉ 0485

    There was a large boiler in the Workhouse Yard for boiling gruel which was served to the waiting crowds.
    There was another Gruel Pot at the rear of the present Court-house in the Market Square. Site can be seen up to the present day 1938.
    This last Gruel pot was served by water from the River through two wooden pipes and was in constant use. Gruel was served out to the people all day. Men and women were to be seen staggering with weakness from hunger as they hobbled along to Castlerea for their daily meal of Gruel. There was very little grumbling to be heard from any person, on the contrary, "Welcome be the will of God." "May God increase

  16. Sonnet Sequence on the Shepherds at the Crib

    CBÉ 0485

    IX. her beauty is not a worldly beauty.
    the pure and immaculate virgin possessed above all other maidens this peculiar mark of virtue that her glammes[?] purified the heart of all who looked on her. -St Thomas of Villanova
    Nature would seem to have on her conferr’d her [?] gifts. She must be far more fair than [?] other, Judith, or Rebecca was; and yet her beauty, if we have not err’d one could not with propriety compare with any type of beauty, that one knows. Her face and form reflect the eternal: she’s not like the sun or what men call beauty - so proud and dangerous to look upon: but like the morning star, so musical. So soft and bright, inspiring purity, with thoughts of heaven that now the night is gone- the harbinger of day: - that day may be which prophets longed to see, and did not see.

  17. (gan teideal)

    “There is another story told about the graveyard in Chapel Park down in Pollfur.”

    CBÉ 0106

    There is another story told about the graveyard in Chapel Park down in Pollfur. There were a whole lot of fine building stones in the graveyard or near it, and some man took them out of it, and built a wall with them, right in front of his dwelling house. He was two or three days building the wall, and finished it off in the grandest of style. When he got up the next morning, there was no sign of the wall. It was the very same as if there never was a wall built on it. He wondered greatly where the wall went to. He went down to the Chapel park and there he found the stones back in the same place, just the same as if they had never been removed. You may bet he never

  18. Fishing

    CBÉ 0189

    I was fishing down in a place called Ballinlee of another day.
    'Twas a nice warm day in the month of May. I threw the bait into the water and laid the rod down on the bank. I took out me pipe and went to take a smoke.
    Twasnt long until I warred the rod bobbing, like something was pulling at it. I jumped up and pulled. A terrible strain came and meself and rod and all were pulled down the river. There was a big sceach tree about a hundred yards down I ran for that and wound the rod and line around it a couple of times to make it fast.
    I ran to a house about two hundred yards away for help. Two men from the house came with me. As soon as

  19. (gan teideal)

    “This is the conclusion of what I sent in, in my last book. It concerns the work that goes on in a farmhouse kitchen.”

    CBÉ 0190

    start working again for the men will be expecting their tea. Two or three kettles are boiled on the big kitchen fire, and then the tea is put to draw in two or three big tea pots. The bread is cut into slices and placed on big dishes on the tables. Some farmer's wifes butter the bread but others leave the butter on the table. The men then come in and partake of their tea, but do not spend much time over it, as the day is going and there may be plenty of work to be done before night. There is another big wash up now of the things, and the tables are again laid for the supper. The girls do their evenings work, pigs, cows calves fowl and all must be attended to before the men come in to their supper. Meanwhile the

  20. Blind Booby

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    him. Blind Booby would take the piece of cloth from around his head and put it on the new "fool." Then when he would have him blindfolded in such a manner so that he couldn't see he would say to him "How many horses in your father's stable" and the boy would answer "three white and three gray." Then the new fool would be turned around three times and the boy turning him would say "turn around once turn around twice you'll never see me until next May day/" Then they would all run around again leaving Blind Booby to grope around looking for somebody. He would be Blind Booby then until he'd catch some-body else and that is how the game goes on.