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  1. (gan teideal)

    “The first traditional reference to the Hardy Family....”

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    The first traditional reference to the Hardy family who owned a small estate near Hacketstown refers to Captain Hardy who was in charge of the Yeos at Hacketstown in '98. He was killed at the battle of Hacketstown and is buried at the Protestant cemetery there. The headstone says that he died fighting for his King and country against the rebels at the Battle of Hacketstown. The house in which he lived was for years regarded as being haunted even though for a time it was the residence of the local Parish Priest

  2. Ruins of St Patrick's Church

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    collected by Nicholas Manson Hacketstown Skerries

  3. A Story

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    After the battle of Hacketstown Captain Hardy was seen at the end of his own lane, with his same clothes on him. Some say he was killed in Hacketstown others say it was coming to Hacketstown. He was Captain of the English army and he lived in a house on the moat. There are people living in his house till this day

  4. The Local Graveyards

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    The local graveyards
    There are two graveyards in this parish. There is one in Hacketstown and the other in Clonmore. They are still in use . There is a church in each graveyard. The churchyard in Clonmore is level and the graveyard in Hacketstown is sloping towards the east. There are trees growing in each graveyard.
    There are some old tomb stones in the Hacketstown graveyard. The dates of some of the oldest tombstones are 1726,1747,1760 and 1798. there are some ornamented tombstones in the Hacketstown graveyard. There is one belonging to Jacob Jackson who died in 1760. There is a picture of of a church and trees carved out on the stone. There is another ornamented tombstone in the Hacketstown graveyard which belongs to George White. There is a picture of a carriage and a pair of horses driving up to a church. The date on this tombstone is 1770

  5. Hacketstown

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    "Hacketstown"
    Hacketstown is a well-wooded hilly district about a mile from Skerries. It contains an old mansion "Hacketstown House" which was at one time occupied as a viceregal lodge by the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland.
    There was a "mass-house" at Hacketstown which had its own priest. Accounts are found of it in a "Government Order" of the House of Lords 1731. A silver chalice still extant was presented to the chapel in 1728 by R. Arthur and his wife, Helen. It bears this inscription -
    "Pray for the souls of Colonel R. Arthur and his wife, Helen, who gave this chalice to the chapel of Hacketstown in the Parish of Lusk 1728".
    The official name for the Parish was "Parish of Holmpatrick" but it had not parochial independence being subject to that of Lusk.
    Canon Wm. McNally was first Parish Priest of Holmpatrick and was appointed in 1730.
    Hacketstown Chapel was abandoned in 1795 and a thatched chapel erected in Skerries town.
    Later it was replaced by the building in Church Street started in 1823 by Rev. Fr. Foster who was Parish Priest from 1820.

  6. A Story

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    At the time of the Battle of Hacketstown, there was a blacksmith in Knockananna, his name was Kehoe, and he made pikes, for some of the men. He wanted to meet some of his companions to march into Hacketstown with him. On the evening before he took some tools from his own forge, and leading a lame horse, he went out along the road, and on his way, down along the road. He met Captain Hume, and the Captains horse was lame, and had lost a shoe, and he asked Kehoe if he would put a shoe on for him, which the smith done willingly. That same night some men were arrested in Hacketstown and Kehoe was with them. Captain Hume said that Kehoe could not be with them, as he put a shoe on his horse last night beyond Knockananna

  7. The Local Roads

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    The names of the local roads are. The Carlow road, the Tullow road, Baltinglass road the Hacketstown road the Castledermot road the Rathvilly road, the Ballyhackett road, the Rathmore road, the Carlow road, leads from Baltinglass to Carlow. It is a main road the whole way. The Tullow road leads from the Bull Ring to Tullow It is a by-road from the Bullring to Hopkins cross and the remainder of it is a main road. The Baltinglass road leads from Baltinglass Baltinglass to Carlow. The Hacketstown road leads from Castledermot to hacketstown. The

  8. Weather-Lore - Snow-Storm

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    In the early eighties there was a very big snow storm. It snowed for two days and two nights and then drifted. The snow was on the ground from January to May. The road from Hacketstown to Tinahely had to be cleared to get food stuffs that were at the station up to the people of Hacketstown.

  9. The Local Forges

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    There are two forges in this district. There is one in Hacketstown and the other is a mile and a half outside the town. Mr McDonald owns the one in the town. Mr Myers owns the one in the country, and he is the smith.
    The forge in Hacketstown is situated on the side of a street called Penny Hill. The other forge is near the river Dereen.
    The roof of the forge in Hacketstown is made of wood. The roof of Mr Myers forge is also made of wood. The door of the forge in Hacketstown is rounded on the top. The door of the one in the country is ablong.
    There is one fire place in each forge. There are bellows in each forge. They are made of leather and wood. They are very powerful bellows. The bellows were not made locally, they were purchased in Dublin.

  10. A Story

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    There are several old stories connected with this district. There was a battle fought at Arklow and another at Hacketstown. In the townland of Knockanoocra the people left churns of milk by the roadside for the rebels to drink when they were returning home from the battle of Hacketstown.

  11. Historical Tradition

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    There was a great battle fought in Hacketstown 1798. Captain Hardy defended the town with two hundred men. Twenty were wounded and ten were killed. THey burned down houses. THey attacked Hacketstown 25th May, and again they attacked it 25th June 1798. Thirty cart loads of corpses were buried in Kilmacart, and Captain Hardy was buried in the church graveyard in Hacketstown. There is a large flat tombstone over his grave. With the exception of the barracks, and two other houses, the whole town was consumed.
    Ten families were evicted from their farms in Coolmanagh. They were put out of their houses for not paying rent for their farms.
    This happened about fifty year ago.
    The landlord put them out, and kept the places and put stock on them. Sometimes they used to auction the farms.
    The time of these ecictions there were one hundred and fifty policemen drafted into Hacketstown also fifty two Hussars.

  12. A Story

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    One night three boys were coming home from a dance in Rathdangan. As they reached the bridge of Hacketstown they heard a long cry. The cry came nearer and nearer and afterwards they heard footsteps, and then they saw a man on a horse. The horse had no head and the man had a big club foot, and a beautiful lady was seated in front of the man. She was crying loudly. They were the ghosts of a man and lady. The man took the girl away on the horse many years before. It is said that the man on the horse with the girl seated in front are seen every night at the bridge of Hacketstown at about twelve o'clock

  13. Local Place Names

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    There is a corner about a mile from Hacketstown. It is called Bulley's corner, because a man named Bully Doyle lived there long ago. There is a river called Dereen near Hacketstown. It is so called because there is a small Oak wood near it. It is a tributary of the Slaney.
    There is a hill a little bit above our school, it is called Anthony's hill. It is so called after a man called Anthony who lived on it.
    There is a place called Kildonagh in Croneskeagh townland. It is a name given to a place where people were buried long ago.
    There is a cross roads called Connoran's cross-roads. It is about two miles from Hacketstown on the Baltinglass road. It is so called because a man named Connoran lived there long ago. The house he lived in is vacant now.

  14. Clear Flows the Deeren Oh! - Air Green Grow the Rushes

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    The words of this song composed by Fr James Lawlor Hacketstown after elections in which Pierce Byrne voted with the enemy.

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    “One time Mrs Reilly's grandfather Pat Murphy...”

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    One time Mrs Reilly's Grandfather Pat Murphy Killkasney went out in the night to catch a horse to ride him to Hacketstown for the Priest for a Protestant brother-in-law of his who was dying + wanted to turn Catholic. When he went out he could not catch teh horse he was galloping everywhere. So the man went in + got holy water then he went out again and got the horse in another field. The first horse was the devil. So he set out for Hacketstown, when he arrived at the Priests house he was up, and he said "how did you get here. The man told him that there were barrells rolling along the road before him. The priest said that he knew there was

  16. The Ghost of Hacketstown House (Story)

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    "The ghost of Hacketstown House." (story)
    One New Year's Eve a young man of Skerries was returning home late at night, and as there is a path running through the grounds of Hacketstown House, and skirting the graveyard, he decided to follow it, as it was the shortest way into the town.
    When he had gone past Hacketstown he heard a mysterious noise,like the clanking of a chain. This noise appeared to be following him, as whenever he stopped or ran, the noise did likewise, He called out, but receiving no answer, he ran home as fast as he could.
    When he reached home his father said,"What's that clanking about you, Paddy?" "I don't know", said his son, "it's been following me all the way."
    "Paddy, my boy", said his father, "next time you go out for a walk, leave the keys on their nail."
    Alan Owens,
    6 strand st, Skerries, Co Dublin
    Told by Mr P. Matthews,
    Holmpatrick, Skerries, Co Dublin.

  17. Hacketstown and '98

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    twenty almost got them between them. The Cavalry retired to where the Protestant School now is and took no part.
    Rev Mr Magee wrote an account in 1799. He was rector of Clonmore. During the Battle he and his wife and nine others fought all day. His wife made bullets of Captain Hardy's pewter.
    Captain Hardy lived at the Moate where Pat Whelan lives now. He was in charge of Hacketstown yeomen.
    At that time Hacketstown rectory was a "nunnery".
    The Battle of Hacketstown lasted for nine hours. Many of the yeos were Catholics and United men.
    Dwyer went thro' the yeos swearing them in as United Irishmen. It was expected that when help would come from France that most of the yeos would turn over to help the Irish.

  18. Hacketstown Rhymes

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    There was an old shoe-maker in Hacketstown named Mr Whelan. When asked his charges for repairing shoes, he would say, for planning and contriving, for four nails a-driving, hemp, wax, and leather, four pence half-penny altogether.
    In days gone by there was a brass band in Hacketstown. The following rhyme was made about the band.
    Hacketstown band was gone so grand,
    It wont come out to play.
    They sold their brass to buy an ass,
    To draw Paddy Lyons's hay.
    A man named Howard went with a job to Mr Whelan one Sunday morning, and he said
    Mr Howard, you must allow

  19. My Home District

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    I live in the townland of Hacketstown Lower. There are only two families in Hacketstown Lower
    There are about four hundred houses in Hacketstown. Byrne is the most common name around here.
    There are a great many houses Slated. there are not very many houses thatched around here. The townland got its name because it is a little bit out of the town.
    There are a great many people over seventy living in my home district.
    I do not know of any old people around here that know Irish. I do (k) not know of any old people around here that can tell stories in Irshis or in English.
    There are more houses in the town now than there were in former times. There are many ruins of old houses till lately. When they began to buld the new cottage they took away the ruins of the old houses.

  20. Historic

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    Historic
    No17. According to the accounts I received from the old man whose name is noted on opposite page the people of Hacketstown and the surrounding district seemed to have suffered great hardships during the time of the famine and many died. They existed mostly on oatmeal, Indian meal and turnips. The oatmeal was sold at 3/6 per stone. The well to do famers used to boil huge pots of oatmeal porridge and give bowlfuls to their poor neighbours when they came for it. There was a huge boiler which held 500 gallons set up at a place three miles from Hacketstown where they used to make Indian meal porridge. The poor people all around used to come for this food with vessels twice a day to get them filled.
    There was a good deal of money expended on public works in this district during the famine years in giving employment. The road from here to Tullow and also the one from Hacketsotwn to Tinahely were made at that time. To this day the road from here to Tullow is called the "new line"