133Many years ago crafts were very common but not so common now. They used to make candles out of rushes steeped in resin. My great grandfather used to weave and also my grandmother used to spin the wool and flax and she used to knit stockings from the wool, and make linen sheets from the flax.
There was a man in Rossard who used to make baskets and little chairs from straw. Also there was a man in Kilmyshall who used to make fire cranes and grates.
His name was Johnny Middleton also there was a man in Kilmyshall

In the year '46 and '47 the famine rage over Ireland. Thousands of people died of hunger and sickness. The people lived on dandelion and nettles and other weeds for almost a year.
The "John Bell" ship took some thousands of people to other countries.
There was a depot in Kilmyshall where yellow stirabout was made and given to the poor people. The potatoes all got lack and could not be eaten. The used to be sown like corn. The depod in Kilmyshall was a goverment grant. If there was a large

Everyone sowed flax so they all had spinning wheels to spin their own flax. There was a nailer in Kilmyshall he used to make nails by boiling lead. When the lead was well boiling it would be a soft liquid.

There was a man who lived in Ballypracus named John Lancaster who made nails. There was also in Kilmyshall called the nailer because he used to make nails. His right name was John Kavanagh.

Jim Dorterty he lived in Ballindaggin. He used to make socks of ploughs and lots of useful emplements. An old man named Jack nailer he lived in Kilmyshall. He used to make rings for pigs. There was another old man in Glasslacken who used to make.

There are many lanes in this locality such as the Crosses lane because it leads to Kilmyshall or the Crosses. It was only a lane one time and it was contracted and widened. The shallow lane it is

124Many years ago crafts were very common around the country. There was a man who used to make baskets.
His name was George Haney of Ballypreacus. There was a family up in Mandoran who were very good for spinning wool and then knit stockings
There was also candles made by steeping rushes in resin and leave it in the resin for a short time and then it would light. Another family that lives in Newtownbarry makes baskets.
There was also a man who lived in Kilmyshall was called Jack the Nailer because he made nails. There was a man who used make harrows. His name was Peter Neill. There was also a man who lived in Kilmyshall by the name of Johnny Middleton who used make fire-grates and cranes.
There was a man from Glasslackin

A man named Jack Kavanagh lived in Kilmyshall and he made nails.
He was called a "Nailer"

Some long years ago when there were a very few factories. The people had to make implements of their own. A man lived in Ballypracus he used to make baskets. His name was George Honey. There was a young man named James Dockerty lived near Ballindaggin. He had a house of his own. He used to make socks for ploughs. An old man named Jack nailer lived at Kilmyshall. He used to make pig rings and nails.

There are many Fairy Forths in this district. There is one in Rossard in Tyrrell's field. One in Kyle. one in Kilmyshall in Hanlon's field one in Cromogue on Murphy's land. There is a sand-pit in the one in Cromogue and when a man was digging sand he had a bar in his hand and it fell and went down in the ground and he could hear it rattling through the stones for twenty minutes. Two men drew sand out of it and they died soon afterwards

family they got a full can of meal. If only one was living in a house he had to go and eat it there and bring a spoon with him. It was only given once a day. There was only one depot in every parish as Kilmyshall was then the parish. In the townland of Cloneybyrne there were thirteen young men. They left their homes for a America five of them died after one mile of their journey to New Ross where the ship was anchored. Five more of them died as they reached New Ross three went on board the ship. And only one reached America alive. Their names were Kenny's and Byrne's

sown with potatoes in ridges not drills. Sometimes they used to get stirabout boiled along with turnips. The people were plenty at that time and had bad houses. There were six houses in Ryan's field and four over Connelly's lane and four in the cobblers-corner. Some of them were buried in Raths and more in Kilmyshall. The farmers thought to make the men carry the spoons in the button holes of their coats to eat the stirabout. There was one woman who had a garden of potatoes sown and when she went to pick them she only got the full of her apron out of the whole garden.

109In olden times children had not the means of education that they have at present. There were no National Schools so the children were taught in old houses or in fields and these places are known as hedge-schools. Traces of three schools remain to the present day at Coorduff and other places. Mr. Carroll from Enniscorthy taught in Coorduff in a house belonging to Mrs Kavanagh. He taught the children English-Reading English writing Sums and Geography. The children had no copy-books to write on so they used slates. About twenty children attended the school. The teacher was paid by the children. There was also a hedge-school at Ballypracus. Mr Curran who was a National Teacher at Kilmyshall taught in his own house at night. There was also a man

In olden times a blacksmith lived in Kilmyshall. His name was Jack Kavanagh. He used to make spades ploughs and harrows. He made them out of iron. The old people used to spin wool. My grandmother spun wool and knitted stockings out of it.
A Nailer lived in Ballypracus. He made nails out of steel rod. He used to put the steel rod into the fire and when it would be red he would take it out and he used a big stone one which he hammered the iron. Some of the old people made their own candles out of rushes. The old people used to make baskets of sallie boughs.

Fairy ForthsThere are some fairy forths in this district. There is one forth on the land of Mr. Ryan. It is in the corner of a big feld. It is round with bushes growing on a ditch around it. People saw lights in this forth. In the nights when they were out late. In the nights dogs used go away howling. There is another forth on the land of Mr. Morrisey of Coorduff. In years gone by people used hear the fairys crying in it on the moonlight nights. There is another forth in Kilmyshall it is on Batty Hanlon's land. There is supposed to be a

I live in the townland of Kilmyshall. There are fourteen houses in my townland Kavanagh is the most common name in district.
All houses in it are slated but two which are thatched. There are four old age pensioners in my district. Mick Nolan, Katie Dunne, Mary Ann Murphy, Katie Donohue. There were no more houses long ago than there are now. There are no ruins to be seen. The land is middling good. There is no wood in my townland. There is a blessed well in the old graveyard.

before market began.
James Maher Marley Co. Carlow walked three miles in twenty two minutes. He won walking matches in Kilkenny, Thomastown, Borris, Bagnalstown and other places.
Jer Dalton Main St. Graig walked to Kilkenny and back in two hours. He walked eighteen miles every day. He was a teacher. He died in America about twelve years ago.
James Joyce Kilmyshall Co. Carlow walked twelve miles before his breakfast to see sheep in two hours and a half even though he had a short leg. When he came home he followed the horses and did his day's work.
Sean Gaul formerly of Carrigleade

126Many years ago crafts were very common but now they are uncommon. There were some people who used to spin. Some of the people that used to spin are Fortunes and Dwyers in Craan.
They used to weave and spin wool and make thread out of it. There was also another family who used to make candles by steeping rushes in resin and leave them in the resin for a short time and it would light.
There was also a man in Kilmyshall his name was Jack the Nailer because he used to make nails.
There was a man who used to make harrows. His name was Peter Neill. There was another man who used to make baskets and tubs out of straw and sally boughs. There was another man who used to make tubs and barrells and churns out

251In the years of 1846 - 1847 there was a great famine in Ireland. The potato crop failed and thousands of people died of starvation. There was a man who lived in Newtownbarry who used to sell porridge to the rich people and he gave it for free to the poor people. In Kilmyshall there was another man who sold Indian meal to the people rich or poor. The crops of potatoes were sowed like you would sow corn. The corps used to be carried on stretchers to their graves. Three corpse's used to be put in one grave and sometimes two according to the way the grave would be made. In these times people from distant countries would send some bags of seed potatoes to the people of Ireland. The potatoes were very small. When the people would be sowing the potatoes they would scatter them along like you would spread corn.
There was a man named Kavanagh who lived in Ballycarney. He had six children. Every morning he used to go away to Newtownbarry with his bag to get food for his wife and children he used to get oaten-meal from "The Reliever

275and joined Kidds lane. Timmon's lane is under tillage now. These are some of the old lanes that were made into roads. Dan Jordan's Hill, It is called Dan Jordan's hill because a man by the name of Daniel Jordan lived there.
Glasslacken lane is leading Armstrongs to Connors Mandoran lane is leading from Breens to Farrells. Killanure lane is leading from Doyle's hill in Ballinavocran to Foley's of Killanure. The Dairy lane is leading from Crean's of Cametigue to Murphy's of Mullawn.
It is called the Dairy lane because there was an old Diary in it and it was owned by the people of the place. There was a turf bank in Ryans bog joining the Tocker and the people brought their horses and cars to get the turf and the cars to get the turf and the cars uses to sink in it because the soil was soft The men cut bushes in the bog and put them on the tocker to prevent the horses and cars from sinking. Connelly's lane is leading up Dan Jordan's hill to Kilmyshall. It is