The local roads are known as the Bray Roundwood road leading from Bray to Roundwood. There is another called the back road leading from Enniskerry to Roundwood also. There is another little lane called the Red lane leading down from the Bray Roundwood road to the Wicklow road which leads from Wicklow into Bray. The Church lane leads down from the Bray Roundwood road to Calary Church. Power's Avenue leads also from Bray Roundwood road up to the back road. The Bray Roundwood road was made about one hundred years. The back road was made about two hundred years ago. The Red lane was made about seventy years ago. Power's Avenue was made

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These churches were erected by Palladius and the notion that the Wicklow people banished St Patrick because of their love for pagan customs is discarded and the theory now is that having Palladius they looked upon Patrick as an intruder consequently they gave him no peace. The writer has been told that Patrick landed at Ard an Aodhaire near the Potters' Risers and the locals must have known Palladius as his three churches were fairly convenient. The Three Sisters stand at Ashtown - Roundwood Derrylossary, and Knockatemple.Mr. P. Redmond N.T Roundwood furnishes the following description of the pre patrician church at Ashtown Roundwood. Co WicklowOn a slight eminence in a field belonging to Mr. Joseph Healy in the townland of Ashtown about 1/2 mile from Roundwood is situated the remains of this old church. For an indefinite period it was completely covered with earth. About forty years ago Mr John George Keogh - a landlord who lived at Knockraheen Roundwood had excavations made. As a result a bell was found which afterwards was in the possession of a Mr Hall a relative who succeeded to the property. On the latters death the bell was sold

On the Local Fair day up in Roundwood a few travellers go up such as men to see would they get a chance to drive a batch of cows or sheep for some merchant buyer, or rich farmer. Long ago Mr Cash used to come in and tell my Grandfather Old stories about fairs in distant parts and about other races such as the Race on the "Curragh of Kildare". Old Mr Cash was a native of Kildare and he used to come up to Roundwood, to buy horses. He was a horse dealer.

There are two forges in the Roundwood district, where the people of this district go to get their horses shod. Mr "Ferguson" is the nearest smith. It is three mile from this parish.
Mr "Darcey" is another smith in Roundwood village who mostly shoes the horses in Roundwood and Monigestown district. Mr Nicholas Ferguson was the Father of Mr John Ferguson who is still carrying on in the smithy. The forge is there one hundred years to Daddy's knowledge. The forge is situated by the road-side and there is a large well out side. It is about a mile from Ballinastowe cross-roads, There is an anvel and a big hammer called a sledge hammer. There are imations of horse shoes.

This is the Parish of "Roundwood"
Townland "Toghermore" and the Barony of "Ballinacor
There are about thirty nine families in this Townland with a population of about one hundred and sixty two".
The family name most common around here is Timmons. Most of houses are slated while others are tiled or tatched.
The way this places got its name was in olden times when Ireland was full of big forests - Roundwood was then surrounded by a very large grove or wood of trees.
There are not very many old people around Roundwood but the few I know I'll mention about them.
One of them is a man Mr. Malone of Baltinanima who is over ninety and can still continue his work. The other two are Mrs. Murphy of Mullinaveigue over eighty years and Miss Keenan of Roundwood about ninety-three or four years of age. She is always out working in fields from morning till night and when she

There is one church situated in Calary. Name, Calary Church. It is still used by the natives of this parish.
There is a Catholic Church in the village of Roundwood, it is still also in use. and there is another Protestant Church above Roundwood called "Derry Lossary". It is also in use.
Calary Church is sloping to the West. The little walk up to the Church is hilly, but the grave yard is fairly level.
Roundwood Chapel is sloping to the South. There are trees growing around the church of ths parish.

play goals, and have two big sticks up to represent the goals-space, and use to pick their teams the same as the girls.
The ball was made from a big tube and a leather cover over it and laced at the top. It was as big as a big melon. Alice Byrne and Ellen Byrne, Raheen, Roundwood, were noted the best Hurler's. There is always a Foot-Ball Match in Tomriland every Summer. The picked teams are Roundwood and Moneystown. There would be about twenty on each side. Mr William Byrne is the noted foot-baller of Moneystown, and Mr Joseph Keenan is the best on the Roundwood team.
They use an ordinary foot-ball.
Every night during the Summer a crowd of lads gather at Ballinastowe to challenge each other in throwing weights. Master Richard Fleming, the

Good WalkerThere was a man named Clarke who lived in Roundwood and he often walked from his home in Roundwood to Dublin a distance of over twenty miles. He could do it in less than a day

Sixty or seventy years ago a stage car travelled between Roundwood and Bray the fare was one and sixpence they always met the trains

In a field called Bergin's field belonging to Major Hamilton there was once a Roman Catholic Church. It was blown down by Cromwell. On the top of a hill called the Fairy Hill Roundwood there is a Fairy ring. This can be seen very plainly on moonlight nights.
In a field called the Rodd Field Lacca, Mountrath there id a fairy ring. On the hill going down from Lacca Church,Mountrath there is a tree called the hangman's tree. There is a fairy ring in the field.
In a field belonging to Patrick Lalor Cardtown,Mountrath there is a fairy rath. Some time ago a man ploughed this but the next morning the sods were all turned back. From Taylor's Cross Roundwood, Mountrath, to the pump in the yard 1847 there were 42 Catholic families tut out and their houses burned down

Jeremiah Delaney a workman in Roundwood was one of the strongest men in Killanure district. The story goes that he carried a bag of wheat and his father on the top of it down from his own house (where the present Peter Fitzgerald now lives) to Diamonds Mill in Roundwood. On the way with the bag of wheat, he took a rest. While doing so his father crept in on it in non pios to Jeremiah and when he had rested Jeremiah started off or continued his journey without noticing the extra weight. When he reached the mill his father jumped off the sack and told his son that he could have the wheat for himself. He is said he also lifted heavy weights ans heavy stones.
(Murtin Joe Delaney Drimo)

Lord Powerscourt was the last landlord for this district. But now it is owned by the Land Comission.
Lord Powerscourt was looked on as a very good Landlord, as he used to give things to the people free. He put in our range free, and other places too. My Father does not remember evictions in this district. But in the Roundwood district there were two. Mr. Luke Kelly, Old Town, Roundwood, was evicted for not paying rent, and then went and lived in some ones shed until after a while he lived in a Labourer's Cottage till he died.
The there was another Mr Mahion Tiglen, Ashford eveicted for not paying

There are various names on roads in district :- such as "The Red Lane" and Arragower Road and the Back road which leads to Roundwood, and the Main Road also leads to Roundwood.
Smiths Avenue is called after Mr Smith who lived in the middle of it.
There is the "Old Long Hill" on the Back Road which the Old people used travel long ago before the new one was built. There is a narrow path leading across Mr Stoke's land and it is so flat, that it is supposed to have been a little lorry which used to run along there with "Pancakes" on Pancake night selling them. It is a short cut to the

In a field near Laragh a small village between Glendalough and Anamoe there is still to be seen a small stone cross it is said that it was erected over a soldier's or "Croppy Boys" grave.In the corner of (of) a field near Roundwood there are (is) still traces of the house in which General Hold lived It was burned in his absence. (1798)In the side of Djouce Mountain there is a small cave built of stone. It is named after General Holt.In the garden of a house near Roundwood there are the graves of three '98 soldiers.

In this locality there is an elder tree growing alone. It is on the land of Mr Michael Brady, Shraughmore, Roundwood. It is believed that Mr Michael Brady's father cut some boughs of this tree, and that a flock of birds came round him and he had to leave it. It is also believed that all his sheep and cattle died that year.It is firmly believed in this locality that if a lone-bush is cut, the fairies would take revenge, by killing an animal of the farm or by doing some other destruction. Mr Patrick McGuirk, farmer, who lives in Mullinaveigue[?] about a mile from this school, relates that he cut a bough off a lone bush and that immediately his cow died.On the farm of Mrs O'Donohue, Annacarter, Roundwood, about a quarter of a mile from the school, is a mound and if this mound is ploughed, the sod is turned back in the morning

There is a Fairy Rath in one of Major Hamiliton's fields in Roundwood. James Burke of Burke's Cross Killanure saw the fairies going out of it down across to Drim. FIntan Mortimer of Drim going out to the stable to brush down his horse was knocked down by the Fairies in the Yard.

There is a bridge near Hamilton's of Roundwood. One night two men were coming home from Mountrath and at this bridge a man appeared to them. He roared loudly and followed them. The two men told the priest. The priest and Guards came the next night and the man was never heard of after.

or something like that.
Some of these are checky and want more rags and feathers and would not give you their worth. They still call about once or twice a year in lorries or carts.
A shilling is called a "Bob" and a sixpence is called a "tanner" and a penny a "copper" a pound note is called a "quid" "five" shillings is called a "dollar" The farthing is going out of use by degrees. The English money is also going out of use. The fourpenny bit is something like a threepenny but, it has also gone out of use now. There are no gold half sovereigns now in Ireland they have died away.
Mammy made a hole in a sixpence. She bought something with it in Roundwood.
In about three months time she got it back for change in the Post Office in Roundwood and bought something else with it since, but it never came back to her

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