Volume: CBÉ 0189
- Date
- 1935
- Collector
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- There was an ould fellow going about here years and years ago. He was a poet. Monaghan was his right name but he was always known as "Mug the Rhymes." He composed a song about races that were held in Wickhamstown, up to ninety years ago.
A man by the name of Hogshaw had a horse running there by the name of Fairy Queen.
It used be a very big meet there, thousands of people from all parts, timble riggers, gamblers, wheel of fortune, there card trick and very kind of devilment was carried on.
There used to be tends, and a door laid down on the floor, and couples used go in and dance a heat. A fiddler would be brought(continues on next page)