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  1. Famine Times

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    In the years of the great famine of 1846-1847 all Ireland was affected by it because the potato crop failed. Fortunately Clonakilty did not suffer because the potato did not fail and people came from all parts of Ireland to buy potatoes. People use to walk to Clonakilty and all along the roads they used to be found dead with starvation, and people used to ask each other where they were going and they used to say to "Clonakilty God help us" and to this day Clonakilty has that name.

    Collected by,
    Jean Nagle
    Hill Villas
    Clonakilty

    From,
    Miss Bryan,
    Sovereign St.
    Clonakilty

  2. Béaloideas

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    houses and every morning and evening the poor people came for their portion. In the next townsland there was a big protestant landowner and he paid servants night and day to protect his turnips for fear the poor people would take a turnip out of it.

    Nowadays we have the expression of "Clonakilty God help us" and very few know how it came to be called this. During the time of the famine food was more plentiful in the country around Clonakilty when other parts were in dire distress. Several people were making their way to Clonakilty

  3. Béaloideas

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    Jones of Clonakilty was one of the greatest tyrants of the Land League days. There was a poor man named Mickie Kelly dying in his house near Clonakilty. Jones was watching to raise his rent by £5 when he died for his own maintenance. He came one day to see him when he was not dying. "Isnt long you are living" he said to the poor man. When he died a few days after there was his daughter Catharine Kelly in the house. Jones came asking the rent. At that time the song called "The wife of the Bold Tenant Farmer" was being made. Catherine Kelly was the wife of the bold tenant farmer. There was a man coming from Clonakilty one day and he heard the argument between Catherine

  4. Landlords

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    There were two famous evictions in this part of the country. One at Watergrasshill known as Saunders fort, and the other at Castleview, Clonakilty, known as Tim Hurley's mill. His son Paddy is now employed in Clonakilty, working for the Clonakilty Bottling Company. Tim Hurley barricaded the mill, and a force of guards, and a smaller fierce of military came to disposses him.
    A poem was written about these evictions and it ended up with "Saunders fort and Hurley's mill will ever live in Rhyme".

  5. Local Roads

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    The most important road in this locality is the main road from Dunmanway to Clonakilty. This road also leads to Drinagh and Rosscarbery. The Roscarbery road is very hilly. The Clonakilty road is steam rolled. There are a lot of motors and lorries travelling this road. The road to Drinagh is a dangerous road for motors along by the lake. Before bridges were made the rivers were crossed by stepping stones.

  6. Donncadh Dubh

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    neighbours came with some weapons to capture Doncadh Dubh. They overpowered him and beat him with their weapons and took him to Clonakilty to the police. He was tried in Clonakilty and found guilty and was hanged and buried in a hole in the east of the town. His brothers were captured and hanged in Bandon.

  7. (gan teideal)

    “I am living in the townland of Kilgarriffe in the parish of Clonakilty in the Barony of Rosscarbery.”

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    I am living in the townland of Kilgarriffe, in the parish of Clonakilty in the Barony of Rosscarbery.
    There are several families in the townland. The population is over two thousand. The commonest names are Driscoll, Donovan, Mac-Carthy etc.
    There are very few thatched houses in the neighbourhood, they are mostly slated. The townland got its name Kilgarriffe. Kil meaning a Church, and Garriffe (Garbh) meaning a wood, so there must have been a Church there in olden times. There are not many old people living there now only a few and these are fine Irish speakers. They can also tell some funny stories in English. Their names are,
    Cormac Mac-Carthy, Sovereign St. Clonakilty. Seán O Hea, Connolly St. Clonakilty, Patrick Kelleher, Barrack St. Clonakilty.

  8. A Shipwreck

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    A ship that was coming into Clonakilty with coal was torpedoed. Eight sailors were drowned. They were taken up to Clonakilty Courthouse where they were coffined and then they were taken to a private graveyard in Inchydoney where they were interred.

  9. A Ghost Seen between Timoleague and Clonakilty about Fifty Years ago

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    A Ghost seen between Timoleague and Clonakilty about fifty years ago a red haired woman was seen on the road for several nights about ten pm near Ashgrove between Timoleague and Clonakilty. She molested all persons passing by and one man died a short time after he had arrived home. His body was black and blue when he was dead. A priest was told about what occurred and he went to the scene and read some prayers and sent the woman in a blaze of fire into the sea and she was never seen after.

  10. Máire na Scian

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    About 200 years ago there lives on the roadside about one mile from Clonakilty on the old road to Bandon a woman and her daughter who kept a wayside inn.
    At that time travellers going from Bandon to Clonakilty used to put up there. One evening a man calls there to be put up for the night. All went well until he hears a remark passed by the mother to the daughter. He pretended nothing but watches his chance and ran out the door with the two after him. He got away to Clonakilty where he reported it to the authorities. They went to the house, broke in the door and arrested the two, and they searched the place. They found underneath each bed a trapdoor and under the trapdoor a deep hole in which they
    found a lot of skulls and bodies of people that were murdered for years. They burned the inn and they hanged the mother and

  11. Battle of Ballinscarthy

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    1794-'6 by Sir Benjamin Dunbar of Hempriggs (a castle by the sea near Wick the county town of Caithness) and was disbanded in 1802 after six years service in in Ireland. In 1798, in County Cork, was another Caithness regiment, which wore feather bonnets and Tartan trews.
    Two days after the Ballinascarthy rising Private Murphy (from Clonakilty district) was one of the two red-coats of the light Company of the Cork Militia wounded at the Battle of Vinegar Hill in Wexford. The Regiment of 650 Bayonets was raised at Dunmanway in 1793, and was disbanded at Kinsale in 1799. The Yellow Colours, carried by them then now hang over their regimental window in Ballymodan Chruch, Bandon.
    The above was written by Terence Hayter, Liselane, Clonakilty, Co Cork. He got his information from Mr Dick Donovan (Dick the Smith) Ballinascarthy, Clonakilty.

  12. I.H.S.

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    In the yard of the parish church Clonakilty there is a cemetery in which clergy have been buried and the following inscriptions may be seen on a tomb there
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    I.H.S.
    Pray for the souls of.
    Rt., Rev, David Walsh, D.D., P.P.
    of Clonakilty 1830-1846.
    Bishop of Cloyne and Ross 1847-1849
    Died 19th, January 1849 Aged 52 years.
    …………………………..
    His Uncle
    Very Rev. David Walsh P. P., V. G.
    Clonakilty 1816-1830
    …………………………..
    Very Rev. Henry Leader P. P. V. G. Clonakilty
    Died 2nd February 1869
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    Very Rev., Matthew O'Donovan P.P. V.G. Clonakilty
    Died 24th February 1875.
    …………………………..
    Rev. Paul Kingston C. C. Clonakilty
    Died 11th July 1883.
    …………………………..

  13. A Famous Clonakilty Man

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    A Famous Clonakilty Man
    Dan O'Leary of Carrigroe (1843-1938)
    Dan O'Leary was born at Carrigroe about five miles west of Clonakilty about the year 1843. he died in the United States in 1938. He was very energetic up to the time of his death.
    Dan O'Leary was also a very holy man. He used to walk to Clonakilty

  14. In Penal Times

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    The Penal Laws were severe against Catholics. During those days there were two priests killed in the townland of Bealad, Clonakilty. It is supposed they were born in the the townland of Malarane, Clonakilty. Some say they were brothers while others maintain they were Uncle and Nephew. The uncle was a priest in Kilmeen and the other was his visitor. These two priests were crossing the Arigideen from Knox into Bealad side. Just after they had crossed the Arigideen they were killed by well known protestants of the locality. When they were killed one said to the other "?are they dead" and he said "believe it". So the name "believets" followed them ever since.

  15. The Battle of the Big Cross

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    Clonakilty town in honour of the '98 men.
    The west-meath militia was travelling from Clonakilty to Cork when it was attacked at the Big Cross by Tadg an Astna who thought they were English soldiers but whilst a little fighting was carried on two cannons belonging to the English came on them and an attempt to capture those two cannons was tried but it was in vain and Tadg an Astna was shot and his men dispersed and thus ended the battle of the big Cross.

  16. Teampaillín Factna

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    The “Teampuillín Factna” is situated in Buragatia about seven miles west of Clonakilty and about one mile from [Clonakilty] Rosscarbery. The English meaning of “Teampuillín Factna” is “Factna’s little Church”. St. Factna was the patron saint of the Diocese of Ross.
    The Gaelic name for Rosscarbery is “Ros Alither” which means “Ross of the Pilgrims”. St, Factna had a famous school in Ross about a hundred years after St. Patrick. The great St. Brendan the Navigator once taught in that school. This St. Brendan is said

  17. (gan teideal)

    “Long ago there were seven brothers who lived in Kilmeen and the seven were highway men.”

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    Clonakilty. One day he killed a Minister from Kilmeen and he was hanged in the quay at Clonakilty in a field of Jimmy Hurley's known as the "Croppys field" behind Lordans forge. When he was about to be hung he asked for one of the Crowleys from Caravouler to tell them where he had the money hidden, but as any of them were not there a man by the name of Canty was present and Donncadh asked him to speak to him and he told him where he had the money hidden but that he should not tell anyone until he drawing his last breath. When this man was trying to tell where the money was hidden but all that could be understood from him was, Crowleys fort in Caravouler. One of his sons went to the fort to dig for the money but it was a "grafán" he took with him and when he had dug about three sods the top of it flew off and (?) him in the leg so he left it there and

  18. Templebryan

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    holy water font is, that as the tide flows into Clonakilty Bay, the H.W. font fills, and as it ebbs, the H. W. empties itself.

  19. Old Trades

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    My grandmother's sister had a spinning wheel; she used make her own bed and table linen from the fine flax, and she used make bags from the coarse flax.
    A Mrs Dinneen from Mounteen had a spinning wheel; she used make shirts for her sons. She used spin the yarn into thread and then send it to Con Shea, a weaver in Timoleague; afterwards it would be taken to the mill to be tucked, and then sent to Maggie Brien in Clonakilty to be dyed. This woman was known as "Maggie the Dyer".
    Coopers used make barrels and churns. There was a cooper in Clonakilty named Quinlan; he used make tubs for my grandmother. There was another cooper in Bandon named OSullivan, he made a churn-barrel for my father about 30 years ago.
    Dan Donovan from the west of Clonakilty was a professional thatcher; he thatched a house for a Calnan man in Clogagh about 35 years ago. They use

  20. Fairs

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    in this parish called the Fair Field, but there is in Clonakilty, where a toll is collected: sixpence per head for cattle and ninepence for a car load of bonhams. This money is used for the rent of the field, and is collected by men appointed by the Clonakilty Town Council.
    The fairs of this locality are held in Clonakilty and Ross. In Ross the fair is held in the street.
    There is a big horse fair there on the 26th August.
    "Luck" money is given at the fairs, and depends on the price of the animal: sixpence per bonham; calves half-crown: cows five shillings.
    When a bargain is finished the buyer gives the seller a slap on the palm of the hand.
    The cattle are marked by rubbing paint to them or by cutting the hair with a scissors. The halter is given with the house when sold.