Corbally.

This hill lies in Co. Kildare, between Castledermot and Baltinglass. Though generally known as Corbally, the north-western half of it goes by the name of Ballynacarrick. The mearin ditch, which runs right across its summit from north-east to south-west, separates Corbally on the Leinster Estate from Ballynacarrick on the Payne Estate. Near the summit is a great granite boulder grown as "The Giant's Chair", but there are no traces of raths or other objects of antiquarian interest. Some time ago there lived three families on the top of the hill named Murray, Lyons, and Walsh. All that now exist of their holdings are a few ruinous walls and fences.
The meaning of Corbally (according to Dr. Joyce) is "odd town"; and of Ballynacarrick, "the townland of the rocks', - a name that would be appropriate to the whole of the hill, owing to the number of granite boulders dotted over its surface.
About 130 perches from a house on Corbally once owned by a man named Peter Nolan, and to the west of it, is a field called "the Castle Field", in which are the remains

Rosenallis NS, and my home are in the townland of Corbally, in the parish of Rosenallis, in the barony of Tinnahinch, in the County Laoighise.
There are fifteen families in this townland. There are seventy people in it. The family name most common is Poole. There are six houses thatches, four houses galvanised, four houses slated and one house tiled. Corbally means an odd townload. Cor=odd and baile=townland. The older people of this townland do not know Irish but they know plenty of English stories.
The oldest persons are Andrew Poole, Ellen Murphy, James Mulhall, Paddy and Judy Mac Evoy and John Kane. They are all over seventy years of age.
There are the ruins of three houses. Corbally is not mentioned in song or saying. Two people emigrated to America. The land is fairly good and rich. There is no wood in Corbally. There is a river flowing through it which is a tributary of the Barrow.

There are several old forts in this parish some of which only a rising ground can be seen. There is a fort between the Owenacurra and Lisgoold river from which Lisgoold derives its name This fort it one of the principal ones of the parish. There are two forts in one of our fields of which there is nothing to be seen but a low rising ground can be seen. The general name for them here is fort. There is no opening or tunnel into any of them There is a fort in Corbally, two in Corbally bawn, one in Ballincurrig, and two in Cilleagh near Ballycrana. There is a story told of an old woman who dreamt she would get a crock of gold in the Corbally fort, and told some boys of it.
They in order to play a joke on her got a can filled it of pieces of tin and iron and covered it with clay in

the Red Book of Ormond says that the Abbot of Owney let for farming to two Normans of Thurles the glebe lands of Corbally and Rathformath (not Archetown) The Townland of Kyle is right between the two, and one would take Kyle as the site because of the name. At Kyle too, with the remains of a building in it is a very remarkable fort, and by it ran the old road passing by the wood of Archestown and likely facing Knockree.
Ryan families were very early in Corbally + Rathmanne. They were intermarried with the Kirwans of Thurles and one of them was mother of Miss Hayden of Dublin. No trace of that family remains now
It seems Archestown estate once took in Kyle + Corbally. A large tree in one of Mr Loughlin Campions fields was ordered by the late Dr Fernelly, Archbishop of Cashel + Emly, not to be set down, and it is referred to locally now as the Bishop's Tree. There are mounds around it. Kyle in the Field Name Book is given down as meaning a "Little Burial Place."

Many years ago perhaps one hundred there lived in Corbally a family named Connaughtons. They lived in the house that is now slated. The family consisted of husband and wife and two children. In late Spring the weather was very dry and water became scarce in April. On May day Mrs Connaghton had extra clothes to wash and as water was scarce she decided she would do her washing at Corbally lake. She made the necessary preparations and went to the lake and did the washing. The day was

There is one old path in Lisgoold and it is used very much yet. It is going from above the Catholic Church to Corbally. It is a Mass path as it is going through the glen where Mass was celebrated in the penal. The path is crossing the river in the centre of the glen. It is the Lisgoold. There are two large stepping stones across the river for stepping stones to get to the other side. It is then going up through Mr. Buckleys land and into Corbally. Before bridges were made stepping stones were used in several other places also. The water was shallow in those places and it was easy to cross over the stones without getting wet. There are stones across the Owen-na-curra below Lisgoold and there is a path from it up to Ballinveigue. It is not used much now as the water is getting deep there. There is no tradition conc

Mick Reynnolds, Corbally, Quin, Co. Clare, used to go every night to the well in Mick Labor's field, Corbally for a bucket of water. He used to see a mermaid walking around the field near the well. She had a rack which she used to comb her hair stuck in the boll. He took the rack from her, and she followed him for it. He brought it down home and left it on the mantelpiece in the kitchen. She came to the window for three nights, crying for her rack and the people around advised him to give it back to her and hegave it back to her and he never saw her afterwards.

to Mathew Corbally who re-sold it ot Patrick Murphy of Navan Brewery in 1799 for the sum of £900.

When the Croppies were leaving Tara they were coming for Nobber when Jackson and Corbally, two Yeomen captains went to meet Fr. Murphy was leading the Croppies. He used to catch the bullets in his hand. He said he would never be shot by a non-Catholic.
The two armies met at Mountainstown, and Corbally shot Fr. Murphy. He was buried along the road. The Croppies came to Petersville, and William Smyth of Kilmainham Wood

CORBALLY;"THE BOTTOMS" is a group of fields they are so called because they are low lying. It belongs to a man Faysett.
"COMBER'S HOLLOW" it is called that because the fairies were seen combing their hair there, It is a field of Pattersons.
"THE SHEEP HOLE" is a hole in a river running through Corbally.The sheep were dipped there in olden times.
"THE STONE FORT" is a big hole in Corbally mountain it is packed with stones.Formally belonged to commons.
"CARAGÍN" a piece of a mountain above Corbally it also was common.
"DEN'S FIELD" it got this name from a former owner,James Egan owns it now.
"BAILE NA GLAISE" is what Michael Dunnes farm and land is called.
"THE MOOR" is two green fields. They belong to Joe Poole.
"THE COW SLIP FIELD" is a field where a lot of cowslips grew.Paddy Mc Evoy owns it.

Mr Cooney Corbally was going home one night about 12 o'clock. At his own gate there is a pond of water

There was a man named John Butler, Corbally, Ballyadams coming home from rambling one night. When he came to a stile on Mr

Long ago, there lived in Corbally Piltown, Co Kilkenny a witch. She had a large sum of money and did know what to do with it. Her servants told her to hide it. One day she hid it in a fence. She died and did not say anything about it. One day a man was cutting furze off his fence in Corbally. He heard a voice saying go home, "go home" but the man said he would not go even if he were

Some of the local Landlords were:
Lord Clanbrock, Lord Trench, Lord Reddington, Lord Westmeath, Lord Clan Ricarde, and Captain Smyth. Lord Clanbrock used to take money in payment of rent. The land act of 1870 prevented the landlord from raising rents for improvements on land which power the landlords had before that land act was passed of 1870. Lord Clanbrock was a very charitable man, and he allowed his tenants to have gates free and also timber.As far as can be known Lord Clanbrock never raised rents on tenants for improving land. Lord Trench was a very severe but any stories cannot be originated about punishing tenants. Lord Clanbrock owned Corbally east, and Corbally west. He used also clean drains for the people. Lord Westmeath lived in Palace. He owned Ballyhogan and Finnure, and we was also a very good man. Lord Trench owned Coolagh, and Chicken's well, and he was a very severe man, and was responsible for closing a well in Chicken's well.

to him and she told him she was from Limerick and that she was to be buried next day. She gave him her ring and told him if her father didn’t believe him to show him the ring. Next morning he got one of his best horses and rode as fast as he could to Limerick. As he was coming near her father’s house he met the funeral and ordered the hearse to be stopped. The girl’s father got very angry and he said he would shoot Brian. Then Brian showed him the ring and told him he had his daughter at home in Corbally. They opened the coffin an there was nothing in it but a stick. Then the girl’s father and friends went to Corbally and the girl was delighted to see them. Brian and the lady we’re married shortly afterwards.This was told to Mary O’Loughlin by, James Meaney, Creevagh, Quin, Co. Clare.

The Smiths of Raffan.
A band of insurgents under a Fr Murphy encountered the yoes at Drakestown Bridge not far from Wilkenstowne. The Yoes were commanded by a Jackson from Kilmainlane Wood, William Smith of Raffan, + Corbally of Wilkenstown. A man called Nulty or Naulty of Naultys cross was supposed to have warned the yoes that the "rebels" were in the district. The attack started + Fr Murphy caught the bullets + threw them back in the yoes daces but Corbally rushed forward + inflicted a mortal wound on the priest + Fr Murphy exclaimed only one of my own Religion could have given me my death blow. Fr Murphys blood can still be seen on the wall of the Bridge where he died.

There is a cure which I know. Miss McKeon who lives in Corbally has the cure of the dirty mouth. She blows her breath into your mouth. Then she walks up and down the road three times. When she is walking up and down the road she is saying prayers. If she did not walk up and down three times you would have to go to her twice.
Christy McCormack of Corbally has the cure running worm. He says prayers over it. He says the Our Father three times and the Hail Mary three times. You have to go to him three times. If you did not it would not be cured.
Thomas Weldon, Black Hills has the cure of cancer. He

There are four graveyards in this parish. The New Cemetery is in the town land of Corbally. The Rearymore Cemetery is in the townland of Rearymore.The old Cemetery is in the townland of Corbally. The Society of Friends Burying on sleeping Ground is in the townland of Shralee. Three of them are still in use. They are not round in shape.There are the ruins of an Abbey in Rearymore Cemetery, The graveyards are level. There are trees growing in them, The oldest tomb in the Old Cemetery was erected in 1704. The oldest tomb in Rearymore was erected in1647. The oldest tomb in the Society of Friends Burying on sleeping Ground was erected in 1669.William Edmundson was buried there on the 31st of March 1712. He was the first settler of that Society in Ireland. The oldest tomb in the New Cemetery was erected in 1909. The crosses are not ornamented the are ordinary wooden crosses. There are no people buried in the ruin. The unbaptized children

THATCHING;
Oaten straw is best.Hazel scollops are got pointed with a penknife done by the owner of the house. Old thatch is pulled off with hands and levelled. The straw is shaken up on the ground,Water is thrown on the straw. Straw is made into a bundle.It is laid on in rows. Then the scollops are stuck into it. A mallet is used. The straw is made smooth with a rake .The local thatchers are JackKane,Corbally,BillDavis,Lacken,Bill Roe,RIP Corbally,Din Daly Gurteen, Old Mooney RIP Shanbeg.