There is a field in Newcastle, Mullagh, Kells, Co. Meath, called the "Pawrtonaeerta". There is another field in Dyrallagh, Mullagh called "The Portawackie". Another in Dyrallagh, called "The Pawraidoole" and another called "The Paw-r croicke", also "The Carrick", "The Crockawaddy" in Newcastle, Mullagh, Kells, Co. Meath, "The Coolfuir" in Tullyatten. "the Cherry Tree Field" in Tullyatten. "The Pullginne" in Dyrallagh. "The glan Clogher" in Tullyatten, "The Diamond Field" in Dyrallagh, "The rock field" in Dyrallagh. "The hearths Field" in Dyrallagh, "The Fort Field" in Dyrallagh, "The Carrackruad" in Dyrallagh, "The rock field" in Dyrallagh, "The Coarse Meadow" in Newcastle, "the Quinacre" in Newcastle. "The Tubleernasgrah" in Newcastle "Bawk Bog" in Dyrallagh. All these townlands mentioned have the same address which is, Mullagh

The names of the local roads are, the Main Road, from Dublin to Wicklow which passes within a mile and a half of Newcastle. This road is connected with Newcastle by the Newcastle-Kiladreenan road. Then the Newcastle or Lower Road from Greystones which passes through Newcastle and joins the Main Road at Rathnew. Then the Sea Road which branches off at Newcastle forge and leads to the station and lastly the New Line connecting the Lower Road with the Main Road at Coyne's Corner.
There is one very old road which was once the main road from Dublin to Arklow but is now an old lane called the back Lane. It is said that Cromwell and his army passed along this road on his march through Leinster, also that King Richard II surveyed the ruined castle from this lane. It is not known if roads were made as relief work during the Famine period.
There is an old byway called the Mass Path from Newcastle to Kilmurray Church which is in ruins. It leads from Leabeg Upper through the Slate, Kilmullen, Warble Bank, Moneycarrol, Ballnahinch and Kilmurray.
Before bridges were made, rivers were crossed by fords. The exact location of these is

Long ago there died in the Asylum of Limerick a man who was a native of Newcastle West. His wife wanted to bring him to the Newcastle West grave yard to bury him there. But they could not get a hearse to take for him. So they got a genne to bring the body. When they set out from Limerick to come to Newcastle, there were four children dead belonging to the man and the woman said that the lights must be the the children who had come to their fathers funeral. When the funeral landed in Newcastle the lights disappeared and was never seen again.

the name Byrne came first to Newcastle.

The name of my home district is Newcastle. It is in in the parish of Kilquade in the Barony of Newcastle. There is a population of about 92 families in the townland and there are about 460 people. The commonest name in the district is "Byrne". About seventy years ago Earl Fitzwilliam built the houses and they are the same type of houses as those on the Coollattin estate. None of the houses in this district have thatched roofs. Newcastle got its name from an old castle that the Norman's built. There are old people in this district over seventy who live in some of these houses. None of these old people learned Irish. Any stories they tell are in English. Their names are Mr. Thornton, Mr. Hutchinsin, Mrs. Synnott, Mrs. Toole and Mr. Byrne Upper Newcastle, Co. Wicklow. There were less houses in former years in the district than there are now. None of the ruins of the old houses are there now. There are no songs connected with Newcastle. Most of the land is good.
Ballyvolan wood contains about sixty acres and is the nearest wood to the village. There are no rivers, lakes or streams connected with it.

It is said that the old Castle at Newcastle was repaired

just in wynds and it was swept on to the bank of the river Maigue. Around Newcastle crops were carried off, some belonged to a man named Sheehy. He was granted £30 for damages. Two cows and a donkey belonging to K. Ambrose of Dromin Deel Newcastle, were drowned and swept off by the flood. No houses were invaded in that district. Outside Newcastle the road was flooded and nobody could pass. The two roadsides were lined up at each side, by motor - cars, horse - carts and bicycles, because it was the holiday season and that was the route to some famous seaside resorts. All these vehicles were held up for over two days.

time in Newcastle and was owner of two Estates Newcastle and Mosstown. Newcastle house was vacant then for some time until an aged man named McCloughrey a native of Abbeyderg returned from some foreign land after having amassed considerable wealth. He rented Mosstown house and all the land attached. This is exactly what Mrs. Murray is in Possession of at Present. This old man bequeathed the House and lands and all his other wealth to his Nephew young McCloughrey who became the founder of the Kingstone family as he changed his name into the English language. Clough means a stone and Ree a King.

Holy water font in Newcastle church, Co. Dublin belonged to the church of Kilmactawley on the property of the Baggot family for centuries which is now called Castlebaggot. It was removed by Ellen Maria Baggot and placed in Newcastle Church in memory of James John Baggot her husband, who departed his life on the 9th June 1860. Written on front of the High Altar Newcastle Church is - Orate pro animis J.J. Baggot et familiae EJus qui me ferit A.D. 1869.The old ruin is now very delapidated and to show it's great age all the inscriptions on the tombstones in the graveyard are illegible.

St. Finian's Well.
This story was told to Matthew Kelly by his Uncle Thomas of Newcastle, Co. Dublin.
19th November 1937This is an old story going around the village of Newcastle about St. Finian's Well. The well which is about three feet in diameter and two feet in height and guarded by a concrete coping was by St. Finian himself. It is said that in the year 1798 English soldiers, stationed in the village of Newcastle, desecrated the well, by one of them washing his feet in it. The story goes on to say that well flooded the whole village of Newcastle, and the big body of soldiers were drowned. The Catholic curate of Newcastle had to bless the waters. When the waters were blessed by him, they slowly but surely receded back into the well. This is but one of the stories associated with St. Finian's Well. It is said that there are cures connected with it also.
There is one story told of a lame man who came to the well and took a bucket of water home with him. He immediately bathed his foot in the water and kept doing so for some time, and at the end of three weeks his foot was completely better. This practice has been going on up to the present day for all kinds of diseases.

There were several beggars both men and women that used to visit this village frequently, their names were Jude Kelly, John Folan, Mary Dempsey, Mike McHugh, Martin Mooney, Tom Rush and Martin Deveney. All those used to beg tea, sugar, tobacco and bread, it's very few of them that sold anything. They lived on what they got from the farmers and they used all get lodgings at night from the people of Newcastle. The people of Newcastle and Shudane were always noted of been very kind to the poor and as far as

About six months after the old school was closed in Newcastle a man called Pat Feeney of Newcastle Who is now dead and was was returning from visit one night he heard great talk and music in the old school. "Bedad" said he to himself " ye have great fun in there ye boys." So he went to the door and knocked, just then the music stopped and five black-robed figures appeared. Each one groaned and said a curse and they disappeared.

A man named Tady Buckley who lived in Rea Islandanny walked to Abbeyfeale a journey of three miles with a calf a day old on his back and the calf's four legs tied. When he arrived in Abbeyfeale with the calf he was not satisfied with the price he was getting and he heard that calves were dearer in Newcastle west a town ten miles from Abbeyfeale and he put the calf on his back again and walked to Newcastle and sold the calf for 6 pence more, and came home the same day. Danl Keane Libes, Duagh could jump three horses side by side and the horses standing.

There is a holy well in Temple Athea. People visit the holy the last Saturday of April and before the twenty ninth of June many cures are wrought there. There is a rock in the Demesne in Newcastle West there is the print of a mans hand in it. It is said that a giant threw it from Barah to Newcastle West.

About sixty years ago a man a native of Raheenagh went to Newcastle West to get his boots repaired. It was very late in the night when his boots were fixed, some time about 10-30. From Newcastle West to his home would be roughly about eight miles. He came along without any incident of any note happening until he came to Doody's Cross where a huge monster resembling a horse made his appearance, and was crushing him on the side of the road but luckily

Football, Hurling etc
Paddy Phelan and James and Jack O'Neill.
There used be hurling and football matches in Newcastle. The teams were Melleray against Newcastle. The Melleray team used be dressed in green and yellow and the Newcastle one in white and black. Newcastle usually won the hurling but the Melleray team were far better at the football.
There used be a good many oher games played. Such as ," pitch and toss", "handball", "burn-ball", "bowling", "tennis", "camogie" etc.
"The best hurler is always on the fence"

carry a big basket of butter about 7 miles to the town and it nearly killed her. The road at Bomfords was so bad that it was impassable for a fortnight.
About 1892 there was a very heavy snowstorm. It began on a Saturday night. The woman who told me about it said that when they got up on Sunday morning there was nothing but snow when they opened the door. The name of the place where she lived was known locally as the Hollow. The son of the house got the "pigs' shovel" (the shovel used to take out pigs' feeding from the tub where it was stored) and two sacks. He beat the snow firm and by means of the sacks went to the stable to find out if the horses were harmed. Next he made his way to his neighbours house, still using the shovel and sacks, and shouted down the chimney "Are you all alive?"
This same lady's parish was Newcastle, the sub parish of Moynalty. The priest lived in Moynalty about 3 miles away. He was unable to travel to Newcastle to say Mass until the parishioners shovelled a path for him along the 3 miles, each parishioner digging from his own house to the next on the road. Mass was at 1 o'clock that day in 1892 in Newcastle.
That same day there was to be a wedding in Newcastle. The wedding party had to travel from Carriga. The party was unable to travel by the road

The landlord that ruled our part of the district was Pollock. He was a very exact man. He would not let the Priests of Moynalty build a chapel in Newcastle. They asked him to give them as much land as to build a chapel on but he wouldn't because he was Prodestant. There was another landlord in Newcastle named Smith, and he was a Prodestant also. The priests didn't like

In '98 there was a thatched catholic Church burnt to the ground by the yoe men. There were three bells being taken from this catholic church to Newcastle Protestant Church. They were obliged to go by Trudder Road to Newcastle. There was a pond in our field beside the road. One of the bells gave a loud peal and hopped from the car into the pond and was never seen again. My father told me the above.

I live in the townland Newcastle and in the parish of Aughrim. There are roughly about twenty houses in it with the exception of a thatched house or so. They are two old people living in that house. They are about eighty years old. They have Irish. There names are Peter and Willie Dillon, Newcastle, Aughrim. They tell stories. They live three miles from the parish of Aughrim.There is an old woman who lives in Newcastle, her name is Miss Annie Lynch. She has a lot of Irish. She is about a hundred years old.