A Story

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Joseph Hurley

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“Tom the Mower of Glenlara (at the foot of the Sliabh Rí in Co. Limerick) was a wonderful mower...”

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Patrick Hannon

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“Pat Hannon also told me a basket maker named Bill Twomey lived just outside the village of Ballylanders - he made sgíocs - for washing potatoes and baskets from sally rods...”

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Pat Hannon

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“Pat Hannan told me also about a man named Bill Griffaun who used to fish for salmon in the Morning Star river and in Garrynalina...”

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Pat Hannan

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“John Harty of Ballyfruta about a mile from the village was a poet and also a great mower...”

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“Great pipers. Dinny Lee and son who lived in Ballyfaskin were wonderful pipers and musicians...”

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Pat Hannan

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“Football matches in olden times were often played with two furze bushes as goals...”

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Pat Hannan

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Local Place Names

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Pat Hannan

Ballylanders, Co. Limerick

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Holy Wells

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Mrs Noonan

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“This is Pat Hannan's account of how the houses were built some fifty to eighty years ago...”

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Pat Hannan

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“Three meals a day - two of potatoes and one meal of stirabout. They started work ar six o'clock in the morning and they ate their potatoes and sour milk at eight oclock...”

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Cissie Davern, Johnny Coleman

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“At William Dwyer's house in Fahansoodra in the parish of Ballylanders there was a "poor scholar" called Donovan who taught the children of the house only...”

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Pat Hannan

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“A Quilter - Mrs Heffernan - lived in Ballyfruta about a mile from Ballylanders...”

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“Pat Hannan was an allround sportsman - runner, footballer, jumper and won several competitions in several towns in Munster...”

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“Father Browne once lived here a P.P. in Ballylanders. He lived in a house near the village and near the house was a vein of sand...”

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“An old superstition connected with crows is that crows lodge only in certain places - in Kilfrush near Knocklong in Co. Limerick a crow was never known to build a nest in the lands of Gubbins...”

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“The following piece was supposed to be composed by Dawson a poet of Cullane Co. Limerick...”

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Pat Hannan

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“Corraturk - a hill near the village is supposed to have derived its name from the story that Diarmaid O Duibhne fought and killed (without having any weapon) a wild boar in the hill...”

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Farm Animals in the District

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Social Ballylanders

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D. J. Kilmartin

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