Volume: CBÉ 0407 (Part 1)
- Date
- 1937
- Collector
- Locations
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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.”
(continued from previous page)I must again return to my father as I think it better to give all the folklore (I associate with individuals and with places mentioned before) in globs and at one sitting, so to speak.- Father Clowry, strong, determined, rational, inveterate enemy of oppression & father of the poor was P.P of Grangeford, Co. Carlow from about 1825-1845. As champion of the people & their rights he was in constant conflict with the Orange ascendency & the unjust landlords, and although they hated Mr Clowry they lived in “mortal dread of him”. The leases of the tenants on the Ballinatămple estate “fell”(continues on next page)