Volume: CBÉ 0407 (Part 1)

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   “I spent most of summer holidays 1910 & 1911 in company with Willie Doyle. Fine steady young man of most exemplory who had devoted all his sprae time to the study of antiquities and folklore.”

   

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   In Willie's company I visited Cloch an phuill (Knock a foyle), one of the finest examples of holed-stone in Ireland. Described in detail elsewhere (See Keating - O Dunnin II pp 403 7. The Cillbrighde mentioned by Keating is Kilbride in Co Carlow & not Celbridge, Co Kildare, as mis-translated by Ryan (Hist of Carlow - old)
   Local legend: A king was chained to the stone & left there to die. In his effort to break away he left tracks of the chains on the stone which can be seen to the present day. Mothers bring their delicate children & hope to cure them by passing them in & out through the hole. Supposed to be invaluable as a cure for rickets or any infantile delicy.
   (b) The Cromlech of Aucaun [ctd bottom of 497] N of Tullow. Not a cromlech in the ordinary sense of the word but a "giant's grave". When we visited in 1910 a blacksmith had his forge in it & had plenty of room. Aucaun is pronounced EE-KAWN
   (c) together we located the ogham stone & stole it out of the pig's house where it had served as a lintel for many a long day. When Willie's father, old Davy, brought me home the stone next day he remarked to my mother "Youth must have its fling!" Penance enjoined on me by

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   History Edit

   Date

   1910

   Item type

   Lore

   Language

   English

   Writing mode

   Handwritten

   Writing script

   Roman script

   Informant

   • Liam Ó Dubhghaill