Volume: CBÉ 0407 (Part 2)
- Date
- 1937
- Collector
- Location
Archival Reference
The Main Manuscript Collection, Volume 0407, Page 0133
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- (continued from previous page)Continued from p. 16
2 Copucates of Lord.
3a of meadow
and 10a mool
Ricard + Wales come + say [?] they should no to answer Anabilla because she is excommunicated + upon this prophet letters of Gerald Bishop of Limerick wh. testify this. {?} die"
According to beirl sweeney 1664. Lord love about was Arable 30% Pastone 3%
Wooch 47% Mountain 20
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“I knew a man and many of you knew him, too, Philip Kennedy of Clochar...”
(continued from previous page)drunk that he could tie the knot. So he brought his daughter with him and had her reading out of a book while he was going in and out under the cow's belly, but there was no sign of the blood stopping.
"Is it stopped, Mary?" says he.
"Cac, a Dhaid", ar sise and the blood stopped.
Those listening were convinced that at last they had the magic word by wh. blood could be stopped.
[The nickname .i. "Cac, a Dhaid" still clings to the family]