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“The most remarkable jump in this part of the country is "Sean Óg's Leap" which can still be seen in the townland of Noygue in this parish.”
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Mr James Irwin, Patrick Irwin
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“The most remarkable jump in this part of the country is "Sean Óg's Leap" which can still be seen in the townland of Noygue in this parish.”
CBÉS 0368
Mr James Irwin, Patrick Irwin
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“About fifty years ago every place was covered up with snow.”
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Mr James Irwin, Patrick Irwin
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“About ten years ago tinkers saw a white lady standing at a gate in our land in Annagh.”
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Mr Patrick O' Connor, Patrick Irwin
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“Long ago people had no machines for making things as they have now so it was very hard for them to live.”
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Mr John Howard, Patrick Irwin
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“This was another way people had for making candles long ago.”
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Mr Thomas Howard, Patrick Irwin
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“Annagh- meaning a marsh, is my townland.”
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Mr James Irwin, Patrick Irwin
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“About thirty years ago a girl saw a leprechaun in my uncle's farm at Moygue.”
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Mr William Irwin, Patrick Irwin
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“St. Brigids day is the first of February.”
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Mr James Irwin, Patrick Irwin
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“Long ago people had no doctors.”
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Mr Thomas Howard, Patrick Irwin
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“If a man was going on a journey and he wanted to light his pipe, he just called into the next house and got a light from the fire.”
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Mr James Irwin, Patrick Irwin
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“Long ago they had a very hardshipping way of making flour”
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Mr John Coghlan, Patrick Irwin
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“When the Barrack in Churchtown 1822 was burned by the white boys one policeman named Dunlap happened to be out on patrol and he ran into the White Boys”
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Mr T. Tierney, Patrick Irwin
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“My father showed me how to catch birds in a Fódín.”
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Patrick Irwin
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“The graveyard I know best is Kilgrogan.”
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Mr James Irwin, Patrick Irwin
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“Some years ago I was made a fool of on the first of April.”
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Patrick Irwin
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“When the game called balours is being played all those playing stand by the wall.”
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Mrs Mary Irwin, Patrick Irwin
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“I live in the Townland of Annagh in the Parish of Churchtown and in the barony of Orrery and Kilmore.”
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Mr James Irwin, Patrick Irwin
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“Why is a pigs tail like the letter "k" ¶ Ans. Because it is at the end of Pork”
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Mr James Irwin, Patrick Irwin
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“As I was walking through a field of corn ¶ I met a thing that was never born ¶ It was neither fish, flesh, feather or bone”
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Mr James Irwin, Patrick Irwin
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CBÉS 0499
James Irwin, Patrick Irwin
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