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    “Dunfierth also Dunforth contains the ruins of an old parish Church...”

    CBÉS 0692

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    “Situated in the townland of Ballinaskea, in this parish of Enfield, is a natural hill called by the old people Knucnaloo.”

    CBÉS 0692

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    “The nearest old castle to me is situated in Bawn, a townland in the Parish of Killoe.”

    CBÉS 0756

    M. Ó Cionnaith

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  4. Stories

    “There was an old tramp who lived around Ballyboghill in the parish of Naul Co Dublin...”

    CBÉS 0787

    Mr Mc Cann

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  5. The Old Graveyards in Mooncoin Parish

    CBÉS 0840

    Stasia Keane

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  6. Graveyards - Old Burials in the Parish of Ballyhale

    CBÉS 0848

    Eibhlín Ní Shúilleabhain

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    “There lived in this parish an old cobbler and he was a very hard sleeper. Often he went to bed about eight o' clock and he would not get up till two or three o'clock next evening.”

    CBÉS 0863

    Margy Manning, Mrs Mary Purcell

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    “There lived in this parish an old cobbler and he was a very hard sleeper.”

    CBÉS 0863

    Margy Manning, Mrs Mary Purcell

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  9. Old Customs - Dress - Collected in Piercestown Parish

    CBÉS 0879

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    “Screen (old parish of St Nicholas)...”

    CBÉS 0885

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  11. Old Graveyards Blackwater Parish

    CBÉS 0885

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  12. Old Graveyards - Blackwater Parish

    CBÉS 0886

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  13. Old Graveyards of Ashford Parish

    CBÉS 0927

    Sally Geoghegan

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    “The old people had a prophecy that the day would come when all the milk of the parish would be churned in the one churn.”

    CBÉS 0939

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    “The only old graveyard in this parish is Drumsnatt...”

    CBÉS 0951

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  16. Old Forts - Graffagh, Parish of Tydavnet

    CBÉS 0954

    Wallace Graham

    Graffagh, Co. Monaghan

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  17. Old Forts - Killydonnelly, Parish of Tydavnet

    CBÉS 0954

    Bobbie Chambers

    Killydonnelly, Co. Monaghan

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  18. An Old Custom in this Parish

    CBÉS 0961

    William Mc Kenna

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  19. (no title)

    “There is an old ruin in Lurgan which was a hundred years ago the Parish Chapel in Lurgan.”

    CBÉS 0996

    Michael Fitzsimons, Peggie Fitzsimons

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  20. Old Graveyards in this Parish

    CBÉS 1003

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