Volume: CBÉ 0460 (Part 1)

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1. An Ancient Pottery (continued)

   

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   Slaney jugs but I've never heard them called such. The manufacturer died soon after and left a young widow with no children. Her maiden name was Poole and when her husband died she left all the estate with her father and so the whole estate became the property of Poole, of Growtown, which is not far from Taghmon. This Poole was a very clever and well learned man and was loved by all in the adjoining districts. He was a lover of birds and animals and it is said that he wrote a book on the "Birds and Flowers of County Wexford". There lived at Ballykelly at that time a Protestant neighbour of Poole's by the name of Mr. William Berry and this man and Poole were very great friends. Berry married a Roman Catholic girl and at this time the places of Worship for Catholics were very scarce. On the side of the road and near the Cross of Killiane and known up to my young days as "Rineen's Cross" stood a small shed built of mud and wood in which on Sundays and Holidays Mass

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   History Edit

   Date

   31 July 1937

   Item type

   Lore

   Language

   English

   Writing mode

   Handwritten

   Writing script

   Gaelic script

   Collector

   • Domhnall de Buitléir

   Informant

   • Tomás Ó Ciaráin