form the rock to the Johnstown road, which is always known as the Mournful road, because there is always a mournful song heard along it.

There was a man named Carrol once went climbing the wall of the garden at St. Johnstown Castle (between Dranga + Fethard) to get some fruit. The owner - Jacob - was int he garden and he ordered Power the gardener to shoot him. After some persuasion he fired and the man (Carroll) fell back dead and lay in the fellustrums by the river for days.
Power used to live in the house where Tom Mullet St. Johnstown now lives. One evening he was shot at his window by Martley.

21 Moin na ngloc: The bog the stones in Milletts St Johnstown22 The Kiln Field. The field with the kiln in it, in Plants St Johnstown.23 The Cover, the field with a cover in it, in Heffernans, Fanaleen24 Harney's Field, A man named Harney lived near it, at Milletts Killusty, Fethard.25 The Mill Field because there was an old mill there long ago, in Hanrahans St Johnstown.26 Ballanglaora (baile na gcaorac) The sheep's town27 The Quarry Field, a quarry in the field, in Quigley's st Johnstown29 Bantra Fuara. The cold meadow in the parish of Drangan30 Ryan's Hill, Ryans live on it31 The Demesne Wall aroung Armitages farm Ballanure

There are two forges in this parish.
The names of smiths are Robert Marks, and William Smith.
None of their people were smiths. The forges are situated in Whitestown and Johnstown.
The one in Whitestown is near the seashore, and the one in Johnstown is near a cross-road.
There are anvials, hammers, bellows, and sledges in the forges.
The kind of roof in Johnstown forge is slates, and the roof in Whitestown is timber.
The door in the Whitestown forge is divided in two parts, and the one in Johnstown is just a plain door.
There are only one fire in each of the two forges. The bellows are stationed in a corner.
They have a very big handle which you pull up and down. They are not made locally.
They shoe horses, and asses but they dont she cattle.

StoriesThere is a wall beside my house called Nancy's wall. It got its name because there was an old house there called Nancy Heavy's house. There is only a bit of one of the walls to be seen today and the people call it Nancy's wall. It was a very old house and it fell about twenty or thirty years ago. Nancy Heavy's Father's Grandfather lived there. There is also a well in Mr. Griffins field called Heavy's well. It got its name because Nancy Heavy's Father made this well and they used to get the water in it. There is also another well in Mr. Prendergast's field called St. Bridget's well. It got its name, because St. Bridget appeared to a man who was getting water in the well. The water in this well is a cure for warts. Where Johnstown house is now situated there was a monastery. But it is not certain when this monastery was destroyed. Some people say it was destroyed in the time of Cromwell. Some of the stones out of the monastery were used in building the present Johnstown house. There is a room in the house always kept as a little chapel. The articles belong to the monks that were in the monastery are in the little chapel in Johnstown.

One time a man named Shaun Handy dreamt that of he went to the bridge of Waterford he would find his fortune, He was four or five days in Waterford and every time he crossed the bridge he had to pay a halfpenny. There was a shoemaker working beside the bridge and he called Shaun to him and asked him what he doing walking so many days over the bridge. He told to cobbler that his business there was to find his fortune and the shoemaker told him he was a foolish man. He asked him where was he from Shaun said he was from a place by the name of Ballycuddy in the Parish of Johnstown. The shoe maker passed a remark to him that he would find his fortune in a place called Ballycuddy Johnstown. The shoemaker

There are many roads in Freshford the principal being :- Kilkenny Road which leads from Freshford to Kilkenny, the Ballyragget Road which leads from Freshford to Ballyragget, the Kilrush Road which leads to Urlingford and Johnstown and the Ballylarkin Road which also leads to Urlingford and Johnstown. The Ballylarkin Road was made during the Famine time, to give relief to some of the starving people. At the end of Kilkenny Street, there is a river with a bridge over it called the Hospital Bridge. There was a ford on this river long ago. There was also a ford on the Cascade river. Long ago when a woman was returning home and was crossing this ford on her

"Willie Curran from Johnstown carried a trough for watering horses across the yard. It was a cement trough and weighed thirty-two stone"

Knock shion ra, Galmoy, Johnstown, Co Kilkenny got its name from a lot men been hanged for shooting a landlords by the English crown. Casair Grange got its name because it is shaped like a chair. Loch up Beggar Inn, Johnstown got its name, because sheep had to locked in it or they would be stolen. Geataban got its name because it was all white gates. Boherárd got its name because it is all a high road.

Once upon a time there was a man going to the fair of Portumna from Johnstown. He was taking two pigs there. When he was coming home it began to rain very heavy and he went into a house to get shelter. In this house there was another man who was the very same as the other man and was dead. The man who was coming home from the fair was very wet and taking the clothes off of him and put them on the dead man, he put him in a bag and put him up in the car and the pony drove home and landed in Johnstown. When the wife saw the pony and car coming she said "O John John go out and yoke the pony his coming at last." The boy went out and there was no-one in the car and the woman said he must be down the road talking, and the boy said he had a bag of pigs-heads or something here, she told him to bring it in. The boy brought it in and threw it on the floor. They opened it and saw the dead man thinking it was her

Hidden TreasureAn old man named Dickie Sinnott told me about the hidden treasure in Johnstown Lane. Johnstown Lane is near Brideswell in the parish of Kilmore, Wexford. This man is a native of Mulrankin and has lived near the old land for many years.The hidden treasure is supposed to be a crock of gold hidden in the ditch in Johnstown Lane. It was hidden by a curious lady who lived in Newtown which is near the lane. She lived alone in a big house. Her name was Mary Coughlin. She was very curious and did not want people to know about her business. One night about midnight she got her gold and put it in a crock and went to this old lane and buried it. She brought with her two white kids and when she had buried the money she killed the kids. She did not live long after this but every night while she lived those two white kids came to her house and walked across the kitchen to where the old lady was sitting. Those two kids were supposed to safe guard the hidden treasure. It is said that when Mary died the two kids were never seen any more. One day an

The Haw Haw of JohnstownAt Johnstown Castle there is a very rough old wall called the "Haw Haw of Johnstown".How it got its nameOne time they were building an addition to the castle and when it was finished, they gathered all the stones and bits of mortar that were left over, and put them in a large rough heap. They decided to call it by the first remark that was passed on it, and the first to pass by, was an old man on a horse and car and when he saw it he laughed and said "Haw Haw" so it is called '`The Haw Haw of Johnstown" to the present day.Told to me by
Mary McGrath
24 Hill Street
Wexford

On my home farm in the townland of Johnstown and Parish of Tinryland and Barony of Carlow there is a field known as Scoilíg which reaches to the Ford at the Tullow Road and the old Johnstown Road Maher's Garden and Moinin Mhór are the other fields. Maher's Garden gets its name from people named Maher who lived there years ago. The ancestors of the present Mahers of Grangeford. Coleman's field gets its name from people named Coleman who emigrated to America after the famine. There is a path through these fields on by the river known as the Banshee's Path. She was often heard there by Philip Byrne Ardnehue who told me of getting many a fright as he crossed this path to his home at the Purty Bush

Holy WellsThere are two holy wells in the townland. One is in the townland of Monagloch and the other is in the townland of Johnstown. The one in Johnstown is on the land of Mr. Kavanagh. It is said that Saint Patrick blessed the well in Monagloch. Very few people visit either well. There is also a big thorn growing over the well and when people visit the well they hang a piece of cloth on the thorn.

There was a man named Michael Dowling who jumped a gate six feet six inches. It happened at a hurling match in Mountrath about thirty five years ago. His address was Rapla, Rathdowney, Leix.
Thomas Bird of Rapla, Rathdowney, Leix, was the best runner in the district. He beat all his opponents at a races in the Spa near Johnstown, Co. Kilkenny. He lived about fifty years ago.
A servant boy of Captain Delaneys, who lived in Oldtown was sent on Saturday to Dublin with a letter. He had to walk to Dublin but he was back again with the answer at twelve o'clock on Sunday. That happened about the year 1841.
Thomas Whelan of Grange, Johnstown, Co. Kilkenny was a great weight thrower. He was able to throw a half-hundred weight about twenty eight feet.
John Loughman of the Spa, Johnstown, Co. Kilkenny was coming home from the town with a bag of meal in the ass's car. About a mile and a half from his home the ass got tired. John untackled him from under the car and pulled it home himself and drove the ass before him. Another night he was coming home from the town with a half-sack of meal on his back and he went into a house where people were playing cards. He remained there looking at them till one o'clock in the morning and kept the half-sack of meal on his back

In 1887 a severe snowfall came. It was drifted into ditches, and high piles of it were in many parts of the roads. It snowed for a day and far into the night.On the following Saturday the snow had become black in the ditches. No-one could get to a shop to get provisions. This snow-storm was called the "American Blizzard".In 1892 all the lakes of Johnstown were frozen. The Johnstown folks, and people from town came and skated on them. At night they had torch lights and chairs on the lakes. All swans were frozen to death.In 1900 a severe gale swept over our district. Two days before it occurred gushes of wind and whirlwind passed.The gale began on 20th Oct 1900. It travelled at the rate of 50 mls. an hour and lasted for two or three days.All the pine trees in the Johnstown woods were blown

Ruins of Hogan's house in Johnstown
'Galloping Hogan' was a famous raparee who lived in the time of King Jas. II. Hogan lived in Johnstown. He owned a very quick-footed steed. If Galloping Hogan was being pursued by the English he could change the shoes on his horse. When the English saw the mark of the shoes they thought Hogan was gone in the opposite way to that in which he was really gone.
One night Galloping Hogan gave a feast in his house. During the night he saddled his horse and set out to rob the mail car at Hogan's Pass. When the news of the robbery of the mail-

river and hill knock na-Súire was named. Ryan's field was once owned by a family named Ryan, who were evicted from their possessions. In the field known as Carrigin is a large stone from which the field was probably named.
Then we have the wild-grove, ice-house, wood, and Maloney's wood. The wild grove is almost surrounded by water. It can scarcely be entered in Summer. Brambles and bushes are growing in plenty in the wild grove. The ice-house wood is named from the ice- house in which the people put ice on meat to keep it fresh. Maloney's wood takes its name from a family, Maloney, who lived in Johnston.
There are two lakes near Johnstown- Poulawee and the Black Lough. There is a small river flowing out of a larger one in Johnstown called the "brave" or ("Craol.."?). In knockna - cahair there is a stile known as the 'white stile'. There are supposed to be

The hare sucking the cow in St Johnstown Fethard.
A great many years ago a man called John Hayden kept a dairy of cows an St. Johnstown, Fethard. It happened on several occasions that one of the cows was not milking as well as she should. One night the farmer decided to watch the cows to see if anybody was interfering with them. Early in the morning a hare appeared in the field and trotted up to this particular cow and drank some milk from her teats. Next morning the farmer brought a pair of grey-hounds with him. After some time the hare came and the farmer slipped the dogs. They followed her through the field until they came to a little thatched house. The hare while jumping through the window was seized by one of the dogs by the hind quarter and he

This "poet" taught Johnstown N.S. Navan for 43 years retiring about 1892. He was a fluent Irish speaker and taught it to his pupils "after hours". He never lived outside Co. Meath but learned the tongue he loved from books, and got his pronounciation and "blas" from poor "knights of the road" whose wanderings in search of work or alms brought them from the gaelteacht to our County.When one of these happened to call at the teacher's little house in Johnstown he was a welcome guest, and after a good meal,, he and "the Master" walked off together for miles, the master, for the time being, becoming the PUPIL, who drank in sweet sounds of the language he loved.Every "poor man" was accosted in Irish when he called - if he answered in English he got his alms (ONE 1/2d/ ) and went off, but if Irish was his answer he was treated as a guest ( in spite of protests from some other members of the family )