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“Not far from our house on the top of the cliff near the sea there is a little well, called St Senan's.”

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Micheal Flanagan

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Rough Sketch of District

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“About 100 years ago there was a practice among the people who lived by the sea shore at Bartra and Rineen.”

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Michael Barrett

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“About 70 years ago, and not very far from Lahinch there was a man working in a field with a plough and a pair of horses.”

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James Queally

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“During the period of the late Anglo-Irish struggle a soldier who was stationed at Ennistymon was shot dead in an ambush near the gate of M. Ross Roses's house on the hill outside Lahinch.”

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Pat Garrahy

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“About 5 years ago a Miss Mary Davitt was bathing at Cregg near Lahinch. After her bathe she went out along the rocks picking periwinkles.”

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Michael Finucane

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“Before O' Briens Bridge was built that is the bridge crossing the Inagh River near its mouth there a ford which the people used to cross when going to Liscannor from Lahinch.”

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James Queally

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“When Diarmuid and Grainne were 'on the run' they stayed for time in a farm which is now owned by a farmer named Mr Mac Mahon.”

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James Queally

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“There are 2 small lakes in the townland of Dough about a mile from the village of Lahinch. One is shaped like a heat and has a stream running out of it.”

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Austin Curtin

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“In days gone by as the old people say Lahinch was not the seaside resort that it is now.”

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Pat Garrahy

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“Near the mouth of the Inagh river stands the ruin of an old castle.”

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Michael Egan

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“About a mile and a half from Lahinch there is a graveyard called Cillmanaheen.”

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James Queally

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“There is a little village about 2 and a half miles from Lahinch (S.E.).”

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Michael Finucane

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“There was an old witch going around this locality one time whose name was Biddy Early.”

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Bridget Greene

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“There was a man living in Tullygarvan, Lahinch one time whose name was Tommy Nagle R.I.P.”

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Patrick Hayes

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“There was a man one time whose name was Turlough Mac Stairn.”

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Michael Finucane

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“There was a highway robber one time whose name was Delaney.”

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Michael Egan

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“Not many years ago there lived between Ennistymon and Lahinch a woman who was supposed to be a very bad living person.”

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Pat Garrahy

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“Not many years ago during the time of the Anglo-Irish war in Ireland there were lands of Irish military situated here and there.”

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Austin Curtin

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“Up to the year 1831 it was all hedge-schools that were in this country as there was a price laid on teacher's heads, and they were forced to teach by a hedge.”

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James Queally

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