Good singersMr. Henry Groves of Newtown was a very good singer. His favourite song was on called the "Glen of the Downs". He had no home, he used to work. He is alive yet.Mr. Paddy Donohoe of Calary was a very good violinist and singer. He sang and played all "Moore's melodies. When travelling through Wicklow, he visited Moore's tree. His in fifteen years dead.

People lived in Calary named Hendys. They were Protestants. They hid priests in their house in the Penal days. Their house was never searched. Two of the family turned Catholic.
There was a priest named Father Lowe, he was a native of Roundwoord. He was hunted by Yoemen. Once when he was being hunted he hid in furze bushes. The Yoemen all went by him, and did not see him, one turned back, he saw the priest but he did not tell the others. He went back to the priest and spoke to him, he was baptized. He went away and did not interfere with the priest. The man found out that he was baptized. He was a good Catholic from that on.

It has been handed down for generations that old raths or mounds so plentiful in the Co. Wicklow and supposed to be the resting place of many who in former years laid down their either for faith or fatherland. There raths can be observed in many farms being higher than the rest of the land unlevel and very often covered with a growth of brush wood.Many stones of persons interfering with such places having to suffer financially either by loss of their stock or heart disablement to themselves.In former years an instance occurred in the townland of lower Calary of a very industrious and highly respected farmer whose name was Mr Sutton having one of these raths on his land and despite the advice of his neighbours he proceeded to reclaim this in making it arable land at the close of his first day's work he retired in his usual health. Though quite a young man next morning his family were horrified to observe his head white and his face covered with different coloured blotches; otherwise his health was perfect. He remained in this condition till his death

Tom Doyle was a very good mower when he was young. He mowed a field of of corn in one and -a half days. The field yielded four acres of corn. He was also a very famous singer. His favorite songs were "The Wearing of the Green" and "O Donnell Abu" and "The Meeting of the Waters".
Tom Doyle was also a very good dancer. His father Pat Doyle taught him. His favourite dance's were, "The Horn Pipe," The Irish Washer Woman".
Harry Sutton was a very good story-teller but he was is a very old man now and he cannot recall any of the old stories he knew. He lives in the townland of Lower Calary.

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Did you hear of the Calary Races?
Well, really its worth your while
To hear the comment on the famous
Frank Byrne and queen Sabine
Bul maybe you're only a Johnny
And don't know a horse from a hoe
Well now don't get angry young sonny
For here goes her pedigree now.II
We bred her at sweet Carrigower
She came of King Morian's breed
To the front and to stay there was ever
The root of King Morians creed
For weight would'nt stop her, nor distance
Nor odds through the others were fast
She'd race with a dogged persistence
And wear them all down at the lastIII
She ran at the Calary Meeting
Over doublebank, hedge and stone wall

than now and there were bigger families. Most of them emigrated to England and more to Australia. They are still going to England.
This land is very hilly and is used for grazing sheep and there is a good stretch of bog around Calary school to the Red lane.
St. Kevin is said to have blessed a littel well beside a river in Ballinstowe. Every one goes and drinks it when they have colds.
It is also said it has the power to cure sore eyes. There are pieces of cloth on the bushes around it left by people whose eyes were cured. There is a wood called the Deerpark here and there is a famous Waterfall in it and people come from far and near every summer to look at it, as it is famous for its scenery.
The Park is about forty acres in size of trees.

Glasnamullen is our town land and there are nine families in it. Calary is the name of our parish. There are about twenty-six people in this townland. Sutton is the most common name in this district as their are four in Glasnamullen.
All the houses in our town land is slated, but there are three or four thatched houses outside the townland. This place is called Glasnamullen as long as anyone can remember.
Mr Arthur Sutton is seventy six, he lives in Glasnamullen, but Mr Fortune is one hundred and Mr Stokes is eighty six.
They dont know any Irish, but they are

and were called "Earthen Floors". There are a few still in this district. Mr Patrick Nolan, Calary Kilpedder, and Mrs Stephens, Carrigower, Kilpedder.
Half doors were in every house in this district long ago, and when they got broken the people never bothered to put them up again and so it is nearly gone out of fashion. Only in some houses they are still to keep out the hens and chickens. As the people have no way of shuting them away.
Wood and turf was the most plentyful fire in old times, and is still.
Lights were made from rushes in formet times. They usedto get a whole lot of rushes and peel them and then they use to soak them in some sort of oil, boiled down from the fat inside of some beast. These used to be made in every house in this district.
More people use to get some sort

slated house with an ordinary door.
Miss Caroline Pielow, used to make candles long ago for her own use out of rushes and tallow. She is dead now. Her address was Tomdarragh, Roundwood. Her mother before her also made candles.
Mrs Timmons, Water-bridge, Roundwood, use to spin the wool and then knit stockings of it. She is dead now.
Thatching houses is not carried on as it used to be, beacause most of the people are in New Labours Cottages.
There is one man who thatches his house is Patrick Nolan, Calary, Kilpedder. They are nearly gone out of date in this district as they are not as firm as the zinc and slated in a storm. Some of the people in this district make ropes out of course hay, or rushes for to put on their cocks of

lights or music was ever heard in this fort. Some times it is called an Old "Fairy-Rath' and more call it an old "Fairy-Fort.
Its is believed that there is another fort in the land of Mr Kevin Colman, Ballyraymond, Killmaconogue, It is covered with Haw thorns. No one I know of ever interfered with it.
In the Church yard of Calary there is supposed to be a "Fairy-Fort". It is said that a man went to plough it and as soon as he put his hands on the plough, The horse & Plough were took out of his hands and they never came back and the man run away in fright. It was never ploughed since, because everyone believes that the fairies are in it. It is in the Town land of Glassnamullen.
The Moate in front of my home was believed to be a "Fairy-Moate" in olden

the new road stands a stone with a small cross cut in it (some say it was removed from the Old road while others are of the opinion that it was cut out and put up there when the new road was made) for the purpose of keeping up the old custom of laying down the corpses when going to be buried and reciting theOn the other side of the New road, a little to the north of the green, stands the site of the houses in which General Wolfe of Quebec celebrity was born.At the Southern extremity of Kilmurry bordering on Calary are two ruins which are popularly called Leghteampall and (or) the Monasteries.These ruins stand in two adjacent fields, separated by a narrow lane (Red Lane). They lie east and west of each other in the Kelly's and Whelan's land, that in the west forming a square of thirty two yards

49. The only local graveyard is attached to Calary Church which is Protestant.
Catholics of this district are buried in Glendalough.In the townland of Glassnamullan which is two miles from this school in the Bray dirrection, there are still to be seen the remains of tomb stones, it is beleived there was a graveyard on a part of the farm now owned by Mr. George Power a Catholic farmer. A man Protestant built a dwelling house on this farm.It was supposed to be haunted strange noise was heard furniture removed from one place to the other at night. The present owner had it consecrated by a local priest.

and never got up for three days after.
The one in Coleman's field is a round one. Around the fort there is a fence with "sgeac" trees and one "sgeac" is bigger than the rest of the thorns.
In Coleman's fort there is an enterance where colemans men plough the little field that the fort surrounds and they bring in the horses through this gap
No one has gone down through the hole.
There are no other stories attached to these forts. These forts were built before my mother or father were alive. The Danes were not connected with these in any way. There were fairy people supposed to have lived in the one in Colemans field and the one at calary Protestant Church
In Coleman's field there are little men with red coats a red caps on them riding horses and giving them drinks in a little well that is beside the fort.

And nothing could give her a beating
She answered to every call
With the crowd looking out for Frank Byrne
His colours they trying to find
Let them look in the front and they'll see him
Acoming on queen SabineIV
Wat a seat on a horse in a saddle
He looked quite as firm as a rock
Head of ice, hands like silk, nerves of iron
That nothing could ruffle or shock
And when man and horse went together
Down the track like an arrow they passed
On his mount the whole ring seemed to tremble
And backers came on quick and fastV
As the falcon swoops down on his quarry
From the crowd she came out like a dart
Her jockey was seldom caught napping
He was always awake at the start
She seemed to inherit that wirey
Strong frame and the pluck combined
As hard as a flint and as firey
Was the gallant young SabineVI
Overy Calary hedge & high binder