Mr John Roache, Carrigower, Kilpedder, Co. Wicklow. is a son of Mr John Roache who used to sing the songs. He has won a lot of cups for horse racing. In Calary races in the year 1935 he had a horse named "Spoke" who won first prize and got a lovely silver cup and thirty five pounds. He won a lot of prizes in other races besides Calary.

There is a famous lake called the Water-Works near Roundwood which is supplied by the Varthery River which flows by Calary school. It supplies Dublin with Water. There is not much in it now owing to the fine Weather.
"Beware of the Witches you meet in the ditches, between Calary bog and Ballinastowe.

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.

Church.
There is a path leading from Calary Lower across the Hill to Calary Upper.
About fifty years ago there was no bridge on the Church Lane. It was crossed by means of stepping stones. Then there were so many people nearly drowned they put up a New Bridge and gave good employment to poor people. The Varthrey river is cross at Calary at a shallow place and also crossed a little below the School House by a foot stick. This place is called the "Rail Road".
It is said that if you have warts and get eight little stones and rub them on them and then put the stones in a little parcel and leave them at a cross roads and it will cure them.
Another cure for warts is to rub

A local Poet of long ago was Mr John Roche, Carrigower, Kilpedder. He composed a song about a "Deer Races" in Calary. It was a cross-country race. Mr john Roche is dead now. He was about eighty years of age when he died. He is dead now. He is dead about ten years. He is buried in Glen-da-Lough grave yard. He was a farmer, and also followed the races in Calary. I don't know of any poets in his people before him, but he made this song after that races, He composed it in English.
Mr Henry Boylan composed a song about a Tug-of-War match in Kilruddree.
He composed it because the Carrigower team won the match, so that it would not be forgotten. Mr Boylan is

Thomas Burke of Lower Calary made baskets from sally switches. He collected the rods himself and made the baskets from them. The baskets were made for picking potatoes. He sold those baskets at the fairs.

In Upper Calary there was a man and he had a farm on which there was a moate. One time when land was scarce he ploughed up the moat. He was very young and when he got up the next morning his hair had turned snow white.

The Red Lane got its name from reddish gravel which was put on it. It was never steamrolled. It has a branch from it known as the Calary road. It leads from the main road from Dublin to Wexford to a road going to Glendough.

When Joe Whelan went up to Kevin Coleman's to get his daughter he was looking for £100 with her but he only got fifty pounds. Her father had to see that the home was her's. They lived in Calary.

There is a mass path from Coolnasgeagh out to the main road. It crosses over three fields. People still use it as a cross-cut. There is another mass path from Lower Calary to the main road. It goes through the Glen Wood.

grandfather Smiths, Glasnamullen, Kilpedder. Co. Wicklow. is able to dance three different hornpipes. He learned how to dance them by looking at other people dancing.
Mr Nickolas Ferguson sings songs and tells stories. His favourite song was about races in Calary in which he made up himself. He used to tell a story made up by himself about a deer hunt in Calary.
He told these stories and sang these songs around the fire at night.
Mr Anthony Mulligan plays the "Bag Pipes" he goes about the neighbours houses at night. playing them. He was taught to play some tunes by Mr Cash a dealer in horses. He plays "Dany Boy" and the "Connaught Mans Rambles" and other old tunes.
Mr John Roache, Carrigower, Co. Wicklow. used to sing songs in the neighbours' houses at night, while Mr Fagan played the Melodian.

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

There are no monuments round this place but, there are head stones in Calary Church in memory of the dead. There is one monument in this Church yard it was erected about ninteen years to the memory of Mr. Keegan, Bohana. It is a very nice monument of greyish granite and an eagle on the top of it. Miss S. Buckley, Tortview, has a lot of ornamented stones which came from all parts of the world. There is a stone on the "middle hill" it is long and shaped like a coffin and it goes by the name of the

a girl up in Avoca Co. Wicklow and he composed this song about her. He made up,another song about a lady he saw in Blessington waiting for the train she was playing a "yo yo". He made another about "Calary bog road" and the witches you meet in the ditches. He composed these songs himself and sometimes gets them printed in the paper. He is a learned man and can read and write and is a famous musician. He can play all sorts of music. All these songs are sung still. Henery Boylan, Glasnamullen made up a great song years ago about tug o' War between Carrigower and Kilruddery it goes to the air of "the tri colour ribbon o". This man is a trades man and he plays music. This man is alive still and can read and write and is a good story teller.

ForgesStephen Toole of Calary had a forge. He made gates and spades and he mended ploughs for

There are only a few headstones in this grave yard, designed in the Celtic way. The oldest date on one of the head stones is 1875.
There is a square cement stone at the end of one of the graves as a mark to know it from the other graves; There is no date on it. Calary Church is nearly closed, and some people have buried in the new grave yard behind it.
Mr Roache's family is in the parish of Kill Quade, and their people are buried in Glendalough, and also the Power family, Glasnamullen, Kilpedder, Co. Wicklow are in the Roundwood parish and their people are buried in Glendalough.

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Long ago Mr John Roche, Carrigower, Kilpedder, and Mr Fegan who is dead used to sing songs at the hay-drawings and when they had finished they received some "Pourter" Mr John Roche's was always looked on as the best singer and composer. Mr Fegan address was Upper Calary, Kilpedder.

When I was about three years of age there was a story told to me about the fort at Calary Church.
There used to be a man in amotor-car driving round in it at the fort and the people that used to pass there at twelve o'clock at night used to hear him say "Ra Rum De Ra" says the lad in the motor car. There used to be seen a light every night after twelve o'clock.
There is no lights seen there now.

There are four "fairy forts" in this district. They are called "forts" There is one fort in Coleman's farm of Ballinteskin. There is another fort beside Calary Church and there was once a man ploughing there and he looked round to see how he was ploughing and when he turned back again his horses and plough werre gone altogether.
Up in Mr. Byrn's field there are two "forts" and these two are in view of one another. A man by the name of Mr Doolan was ploughing in one of these forts and there was a 'sgeach' tree growing in his way and as soon as he had cut the tree more of the loveliest birds of all colours flew out of it and the same man went home with the fright. He went home

On the southern extremity of Kilmurry townland bordering on Calary are two ruin's which are popularly called Tegh - teampall and (or) the Monasteries.These ruin's stand in two adjacent fields, separated by a narrow road or lane. They lie east & west of each other. There is an ancient holly tree in full vigour at the south east angle.About 30 yds east of this, in the nearest field, are traces of an ancient Church lying east & west 30 feet long by 18 broad. The lower part of the east gable remains, covered with briars, thorns & ivy; it is 3' high & 2' thick, built of stones & mortar. A heap of stones & rubbish occupies the place of the western gable, among which lies a large (shape of) shapeless lump of a stone, having at the top a rudely formed [?] 7" deep & 9" in diameter at top, narrowing gradually to the bottom. This was a holy water font.