In this locality there was a landlord in every district. In my district there was a landlord named Lambert. He was a very good man.
While he was a landlord there was peace in the district, He was overcome by a man named Edward Deverux. This man did not take the title from Lambert but he put him out of the place and ruled the landlord. He was a very cruel man. He had no land at first but a man named Thomas Kearns gave him a field and when he had Kearns' field he expelled Thomas Kearns and his family out of their home.
After that the tenants and the people of the district pelted him out of the place with stones and sticks. The house in which he lived is now occupied by Joseph Swan Barmoney, Bree, Co. Wexford.There was another landlord in Ballymorris named John Talbot.
He was a very wise, intelligent, good man. He was one of the best landlords. He lived in Talbot Hall, New Ross. While he was a landlords he ruled the district very wisely and fairly. He was a perfect Catholic. He was very good to his tenants. A man named Breen Kereight, Macmine, Co. Wexford was a coachman for him and when he got married Talbot gave him a big farm of land and built a house on it. Another man of his was named Lawerence Busher Galbally, Macmine, Co. Wexford and when he got married Talbot gave him another big farm of land and built a house on it. Busher is now dead and the place is now occupied by Patrick Hayden Galbally, Macmine, Co. Wexford. Talbot also built the Chapel, priest's house and the school in Galbally.

Local fairs are held in Ballylanders, Kilfinane, Knocklong, Kilmallock, Mitchelstown, Emly, Elton Galbally. In Ballylanders and Kilfinane and Kilmallock and Mitchelstown and Galbally the fairs are in the towns and in Emly and Knocklong and Elton held in fields. When you would be going into fairfields you would have to pay two pence a head for cattle and a penny a head for sheep. When you would sell cattle you would give luck about a half-crown. Some buyers come to farmers buying calves. When the bargain is nearly finished the buyer would hit the farmer in the hand. The bargain is made. Then the buyer marks the cattle by cutting hair off wit a scissors or with mud or colour raddle. The principal fairs in Kilfinane are the 19th of May and 25th of Oct. The principal fairs in Mitchelstown are 25th of March the 25th of April 10th January. The principal fairs in Ballylanders are 16th of December and the 22nd of October. There is a principal fair for horses in Kildorney 2nd of May.

The local fairs are held in Ballylanders Kilfinane, Knocklong Kilmallock, Mitchelstown Elton Emly Tipperary, Galbally. In Ballylanders Kilfinane Mitchelstown Kilmallock and Galbally the fairs are held in the Streets. In Emly Elton and Knocklong the fairs are held in the fairfields. Going into fairfields you would have to pay two pence a head for cattle and a penny a head for Sheep. Sometimes the buyers go around to each house buying the calves. The luck is given according to the bargain. The luck generally given is a half-crown or five shillings. The way that farmers finish a bargain is one of the farmers hits the other in the hand. When cattle are bought they are marked with a chalk and sometimes the hair is cut off their back with a scissors.The days that that the principal fairs are held in Mitchelstown are on the 22nd of May the 12th of November the 10th of January the 25th of March the 25th of April. The days that the principal fairs are held in Kilfinane are on the 25th of October and the 19th of May. The days that the principal fairs are

And but for the speed of their horses we'd rock them to sleep.The Bennett mentioned was Bennett of Gleneffy near Galbally and Franks was the late Thomas Franks of Ballyscadane, father to Major Gen, Sir George McKenzie Franks. Both were J.P's and sat on the bench at Galbally, Hospital and Kilfinane Petty Sessions Courts.I was often told the above by the late Jim Coleman of Ballylanders who pursued Franks and shot down a branch over his head as he escaped in his own avenue at Ballyscadane near the Cross of the Tree, on the road to Knocklong.

There is a holy well near the Moreabbey about a mile from Galbally. It is called St. Francis' Well. The well is situated under an arch on the road from Galbally to Aherlow. Long ago people used to visit the well and take children there to be cured from the whooping cough. Many cures took place there.
The tree near the well used to be decorated. Some say the well removed from one side of the road to the other. The rosary was the usual prayer said there.
There is a holy well in Ballylanders. It is called Our Lady's Well. It is visited eight days before the 15th August

There is a field on Mr Hedigan's land (Galbally, called Inish Caman). Long ago there used to be a lot of hurling played there and that is how it got its name.
The townland of Lizzard which means Lios Árd got its name from a very high mote that is there. The mote is situated on Mr O'Brien's land.
The townland of Ballycrana (which means the town of the sow) is in the County of Tipperary about two miles from the village of Galbally. Long ago there lived on the top of Sliab na Muc a huge sow. She killed so many people that people would not venture near the mountain. One day Finn Mac Cool was passing

The branch of the Massy family who lived at Riversdale House, Lisvernane, Aherlow, Tipperary until about 1922 were known locally as the Massy-Dawsons.Colonel Dawson lived over at Ballinacourty House, Aherlow, Tipperary. The heiress to Colonel Dawson's estate of Ballinacourty was his daughter. She became attached to one of the Massys who lived at Dundryleague (Dún Trí Liag) House, Galbally, Co. Limerick.A Yoeman came to the then P.P. of Galbally to marry the pair but he refused. The soldiers then forced the curate to do so and he married them during the night on the bank of the Aherlow River. Opposite the village

Captain Dawson lived in Aherlow parish of Galbally Co. Tipperary. He was married twice. His first wife was a Catholic. When she died her rosary beads was left hanging on the wall. His second wife was a Protestant. She asked him what that was. He said it belonged to his former wife and did no harm to anybody. The next day no trace of it was to be found. She destroyed it. She died shortly afterwards. After her death a terrible noise and roaring was heard. All the neighbours were terified and so was the Captain. He went to the ministers and asked what could be done. They came and read to no purpose, his workmen were Catholics and they advised him to go to other Clergymen so he went to Canon Ryan the then Parish Priest of Galbally. He consented to go with his Curate and told him to have his ministers also. They appointed a certain evening. About five hundred people arrived on the scene. They stepped out on the Avenue. The priests read and so did the ministers. The priests

There are three churchyards in this parish, one in Galbally, a second in Lisvernane and a third at Clonbeg, Aherlow. They are all still in use and are rectangular in shape. There are the ruins of an old Church in Galbally and Clonbeg graveyard. A modern Church stands in the graveyard at Lisvernane.In Clonbeg the ground slopes to the east, a beautiful well called after the local saint, St Seadna, being at the South east. The old ruined church stands in the centre and some old people say it was the church of the same Saint, Seadna. There are trees growing round it, hawthorn bushes overhanging the well. There are some very old tombstones found here a few of the crosses being iron. People are buried in the old ruin. Near hand(?) an old Protestant Church where service is still carried on Protestants are buried at one side of the graveyard and catholics at the other side. There is one disused graveyard at Gortavoher. It is now a pasture field. The owner of it, Mr Hennessy, told me his father

There are many fields around this locality which have names on them.There is a certain field near here belonging to Mr Asple Galbally Ballyhogue Co.. Wexford Barony of Bantry, and it is called the Kiln Field. It is so called because there is a very old kiln in it.
There is also another field belonging to the same man called the Cow Field because long before Mr Asple began farming it was kept specially for the cows. Ever since it is called the Cow Field. A woman whose name is Mrs Delaney Galbally Ballyhogue Co. Wexford Baroney of Bantry, is the owner of a field called the Marle-hole Field. It is so called because there is a marle - hole in it. This woman has also another which is called the Well Field. It is given its name from an old well which was in it long ago and which is in it still.

There are six graveyards in the Parish of Bree, Ballyhogue, (Galbally?), Bree, Clonmore, (?), and Clonmore Protestant graveyards and (Ballybrennan?).They are all still in use. The ones in Ballyhogue and Clonmore are shaped like a heart and the rest of them are square. There is a ruined church in Ballybrennan graveyard. There is a chapel alongside the graveyards of (Galbally?) and Bree and a Protestant church alongside the Protestant graveyard in Bree. There are trees around them all and monuments and tombs in them all some are there since (?). Most of the crosses are of wood. There is a cave running under the graveyard of Clonmore and going ahead up to Clonmore house and it is believed that it is there since the time of Cromwell as a safeguard from the soldiers and it is supposed to be full of gold.

The second attempt to rescue the gold in the above moat was made by a man named Norman from Galbally. He went single handed and declared that if all the Divil's in hell came they wouldn't frighten him. He dug away till about midnight when he heard chains rattling. This so frightened him

There are a few graveyards in the district. The names of them are Ballingarry, Ballintubber, Darragh, Glenroe, Abbey, Galbally, Kilfinane and Knocklong. Ballingarry is in the townsland of Ballingarry rect-angle. There are two graveyards in Ballingarry one of them is an old one it wasn't used for twenty years. There is an old graveyard in Ballintubber it is in the land of Michael Dwyer's it wasn't

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. The police and water bailiffs were always after him and one day he lay under the water hiding for three hours until they were tired of searching for him. Colonel Massey - a landlord near Galbally - used to buy the fish and when Griffaun was caught and fined by Stipendiary the Colonel used to pay the fine.

animal, (b) from the person whom the animal was bought from, or (c) from the fair at which the animal was bought. Following are local examples of those names:- Magaide (from title of head) Broken Horn, Cocked Horn, Long Teats, Bottle Teats, Callaghan, Short Tail, Red Galbally (bought at Galbally) etc. etc. "How! How! is said when driving in the cows, or very often it is sufficient to say "Shep! Shep!} (calling the sheep-dog, which has the cows well trained) "Suc! Suc!" calls the calves.
In the cow-house, the cows are tied in a contrivance called "bails". See sketch.[Drawing] - BailsA & B are wooden posts. B is movable towards A when the cow's head is between the two. Then the hasp C is inserted in the ridg D, and the cow is secured. Cows are never tied by the horns or legs. On Palm Sunday, a piece of blessed palm is hung up in the cowhouse to bring good luck. Water blessed on Easter Saturday is sprinkled in the cowhouse on May Day, (the day on which farmers fear piseógs) Also their udders are washed in this water in order that the cows may give a good milk yield. After calving, the sign of the cross is made on a cow's hip with a Blessed Candle, and sometimes the hair on the

The meaning of Boolanlisheen is the home of the fairies in the Parish of Galbally in the County of Limerick.
The Lisheen Boreen: Formly known as Lisín Trí Liag.
The barrack bridge, because there was a barrack there before.
In the Parish of Galbally in the County of Limerick.
The long Meadow field.
Known as the long flat field
Kilglass field known as the Limestone land. In the Parish of Mitchelstown County Cork.
Easarolla river. The noisy waterfall in the County Limerick.
The high field. For it is a very high steep place.
The Bunballow field: it is a lowing lying field in the Parish of Galbally county Limerick.
Teampilí: The reason the name was given it is a high temple of a mountain.
Peggies Bridge: Means Peggy

Some women used to carry can of milk on their heads, and a pail of water with each hand.
Dan O'Donnell, Ardrahan, Galbally. Famous stone-thrower.
"Dan O'Donnell was tall and straight / And in his limbs he was [?]compleat /He throw a stone of any weight. / From his own door to Cussen's gate."Swift Runners:
Michael Hyuan - [?] league._(Garry Spillane, Galbally 1893_ KIlfinane G.A.A Sports_880 yds. flat
(35 yards handicap).
Several similar events.
Great Jumpers. Championship of the worldJames Fahey Corderry, Galbally
(1) Jumped 33 3/4 feet in 3 jumps
(2) Long jump
(3) Hop, step, and jumpJohn Blackburn.
Pole- Jump O Championship of Ireland 10 ft 5 ins Clonmel sports 1892.

A townland in the parish of Glenbrohane six miles south west from Galbally. It was the scene of many a faction fight between the " three year olds" and the "four year olds". The fair of Kilfeacle near Cashel was almost famous for the same reason. A man named Duggan was killed there during one of those "battles". The factions were wearing themselves out; at this time (1844) which was two years before the Famine 1846.

The animals kept in the farms are: - cows, horses, goats, sheep, donkeys, ponies, calves, dogs, a bull.
Sheep are not kept to any extent in the work barn part of the parcel. The land is too view being part of the golden vale grass is not suitable for them. Sheep are kept by the farmers on the south east side the district near the Galtees. The dry wiry grass on slopes of the mountains feeds numbers of sheep the whole year round.
Cows are the important animals on the farm being the mainstay of the dairy farmer.
They are kept in a long low house called a "byre" during the winter, and fed cows are given names. Some are called after the fairs where the are bought such as [?] Grey (bought at the fair of [?]) Grey Galbally (bought at the fair of Galbally).
Others take their names from some characteristic as "speckled."
Cows are tied in "bales."

It is said that Cuchulainn followed a pig from Sligo to BALLYCRANA and killed it there. The place ever afterwards bore the name of Baile Crana. The townland of BALLINAMONA is situated about two miles west of Galbally. Turf used to be cut there in large quantities long ago.LISARD is about a mile and a half west of the village. There is a high LIos in the townland and from this the place got its name.DÚN TRÍ LIAGH is about three miles west of Galbally. There was a Dún there long ago and Cormac Ceas, son of Olliol Olum made a bed there between three large flagstones after the batle os SamhainThe Height of the Mill is near Mr Morrissey's on the Gleneffy road. There was a mill there long ago.