Volume: CBÉ 0221
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The Main Manuscript Collection, Volume 0221, Page 0021
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“About seventy years ago in this Co. there used be great bonefires lit.”
(continued from previous page)Wexford exactly seventy years ago.
If a person did a heroic
act or was a great footballer
or anything of that kind, the
people of the parish would
always light a bonefire in his
honour. All these customs have
now died out in this county.
It is a long time ago since
a bonfire was lit, almost
fifty years ago. They wouldn't
go to the bother or trouble of getting the poles and bushes
at all . . If anything great
happened nowardys, all the people
would do is go into a big
field of bushes and burn it.
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“The dead coach used to travel from Ballyhogue...”
The dead coach used to travel form Ballyhogue to Galbally about fifty years ago. It used to go the same road every night, and the people got so used to it that they took no notice of it(continues on next page)