Volume: CBÉ 0189

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1. Taghmon (continued)

   

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   There was a blessed well near the cemetery.
   Just opposite the present chapel, on the other side of the road down a laneway, there is also a blessed well, called [?] Munna. Long ago, people used make rounds to this well.
   At Brown’s castle a place about a mile and a half from Taghmon, there is another well, called St Munn’s Well, and also near this well, is a place called St. Munn’s Bed.
   The biggest fairs in the county need be held in Taghmon. Twenty one fairs were held every year. On the 28th of May every year was held a fair, known as the “Hiring fair.” For boys and girls used to come to this fair from all over the county to be hired as servants.
   In the evening they used all be fairly many

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   • Mick Kelly