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    “Folklore has been collected by Douglas...”

    CBÉS 0732

    Page 001

    Folklore has been collected by Douglas, Eirene and Violet Matthews from the following people:- 1. Mr. Andrew Baker Ballykilroe, Ballinagore, Co. Westmeath. Aged 96 years. 2. Mrs. H. Matthews, Bridge House, Ballinagore, Co. Westmeath Aged 53 years. 3. Mr. Thomas Belton Ballinagore Castletown Geo. Co. Westmeath Aged 70 years. Folklore has also been obtained by Eric Redding from Mrs. Redding, Atty Connor, Kilbeggan, Co. Westmeath Aged 53 years.

  2. An Old Ruin

    CBÉS 0756

    Page 032

    There are many old ruins through the country. There is one in my townland. It is the ruin of an old castle which was first owned by a landlord over a district called the four Cartrons. He had two daughters one of whom was married to a landlord named Douglas who fell in for

  3. Clothes Made Locally

    CBÉS 0919

    Page 070

    Clothes Made Locally
    There are four tailors in this district, Mr Douglas, Mr M Douglas and the MacDonnells. They do not travel travel from house to house.
    The tailors stock cloth in their shop always. The implements the tailors use are, a sewing machine, needles, thread, an iron, thimble, chalk, coat hangers, trousers pressers, note book, measuring tape and pencil.
    In former times farmers in the summer wore shirts made of flour sacks.
    Flannel was made in this district in former times. The flax was scutch in the Lr. St. There is a lane there now called

  4. Old Graveyards

    CBÉS 1082

    Page 90

    There are many people buried in the Conwall Temple Douglas, Leck, graveyards. There is an old graveyard called old Conwall. Some people be buried in the old graveyard yet, they like to be buried where their fathers and mothers are build. There is no graveyard for unbaptized

  5. Stories of Colm Cille

    CBÉS 1104

    Page 32

    There is an old ruined Abbey at Temple Douglas in Co. Donegal where St Colmkille was baptised. It is said he blessed the clay.
    Around the ruins there is now a graveyard, and because Colm Cille blessed the clay no worms are ever seen there during a burial. Because of that people prefer the old to the new cemetry.
    In the graveyard in Gartan there is a large flag. If a person, who is going to another country, spends a while of a night lying on the flag, he will never be lonely when he leaves home. Colm Cille suffered great loneliness or home sickness when he left Ireland and went to Iona.

    There is a hill near Temple Douglas graveyard called Cnoc a Tighe. It is said that Colm Cille stepped from the top of this hill to Churchill a distance of

  6. A Story

    CBÉS 1104

    Page 36

    A house near Temple Douglas was owned by Protestants. One night they planned to shoot the Catholics. When they went to the pantry where

  7. Mr Pyne's Trial in Dungarvan

    CBÉS 0638

    Page 284

    Mr. Pyne's trial in Dungarvan.
    Composed by:
    Patrick Hurley, West St., Tallow, Co. Waterford.
    Ye sons of old Erin pay attention awhile,
    For these simple verses will cause you to smile
    The clicks of the Castle have lately been trying
    To send the plank bed, our great Douglas Pyne.
    Chorus
    The 18 of November is next poling day
    It's then we will drive the land grabbers away
    For the landlords of Wire with vengeance are crying
    Since they were defeated by great Douglas Pyne
    2
    In Ballymacarbery he has be tried
    There were fifty horse soldiers stationed outside
    If there was any disturbance
    They would pepper the mob
    3
    There was Kelly from Waterford city who came down
    To take out the case if he could for the Crown
    And Keegan who took down the speech that was said
    Couldn't read half the words that Brave Douglas had said.

  8. The Indians

    CBÉS 0164

    Page 126

    There is a rock in séan bháile in Cullens Co Sligo. There was an Indian chief named Red Cloud, he had a son named Red Foot. Red Foot died and he was buried under the rock.
    About five thousand years ago the Indians brought stone axes, flint knives and arrow heads with them to Ireland. Some of them are found now and again.
    There was a tribe of people called the Mick Mack Indians of Nova Scotia. Nova Scotia was the first name Ireland had.
    Dr. Douglas Hyde went into an Indian's hut on the banks of Lake Superior. The Indian told him a story about his ancestors for thousand of years back. Some years later when Dr. Douglas Hyde was in the west of Roscommon he met a man there who told him the very same story word for word as the Indian told it, and said it was about his generations.
    Some say that Indians were the first people to live in Ireland and that they came from the west. The Indians were wrongly called Firbolg Fomorians an Dedannans.
    When the Milesians came from Spain to

  9. Principals of Headfort N.S. - Virginia - Co. Cavan

    CBÉS 0999

    Page 006

    Chas. F. Hewitt 1873 - 1874
    Robt. McAlpine 1874 - 1878
    John Douglas 1878 - 1910
    Chas. M Douglas 1911 - 1917
    Sarah Smith 1917 - 1917 (2 mths)
    Louisa Lowe (Craven) 1917 - 1st Mar 1931
    Jenny E. Browne 1st Mar 1931 - still serving.

  10. Local Ruins

    CBÉS 0180

    Page 339

    going away from the castle together and he has never been heard of since. The castle is now in ruins. People were supposed to be buried there. This castle was built on a height.
    The ruins of it are in a field belonging to Mr. Charlton. The river Douglas starts at Ruhan Mountain and joins Lough Arrow at Coopershill.

  11. The Local Landlord

    CBÉS 0232

    Page 432

    The lands of Bridgecartron and two or three more big farms belonged to Mr. John Douglas Boyd. He lived at Lake View, Kilmactranny. He would appoint a certain day in May and November for collecting the rent.
    If a person had not the

  12. Famine Times

    CBÉS 0238

    Page 279

    poor people in my district to be fed. They did not die in it as in other parts of the country In 1845 the Blight appeared in Ireland for the first time It spread very quickly and all the crops failed from the beginning of the country to the end. The potatoes decayed in the ground Some people fed on weeds and raw turnips. The little children used to go to the fields gathering weeds. They used to boil them with salt and live on them. The following year the crop was the same The people could pay no rents and the thought they would be persuted but Douglas Hyde's father gave them a clear reciept They were very glad now. The parent used to go out looking for food for their children and they would come home without any the same every day. The following winter was worse. In the time of

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    “Sean De Barra of Dunbogue is said to have met...”

    CBÉS 0321

    Page 154

    The Teríach lived in Middle Ballingarry, his castle was on the field in front of Maurice Kiely’s house and the foundations were come across when the field was tilled many years ago, and the tradition is that it was on the high ground overlooking Douglas near Cork that Seán A Barra met and fought the battle in which the Teríach was killed. I never heard how Seán himself died or what became of him, but when I was a little chap there were some stones of his castle still existing and I was shown where he leaped across a chasm on his horse and the footprints of his horse’s hoof where he landed but when I was out there last there was no trace as they were washed away by the encroaching sea.

  14. Townlands - Pellick

    CBÉS 0381

    Page 316

    The name of my townland is Pellick. In Irish "Beal Lice It is in the parish of Castlelyons and in the barony of Lord Barrymore. There are five families in Pellick The approximate number of people in Pellick is thirty six. The houses are slated there are no old people in the district who can speak Irish. There are four houses in ruins. The people emigrated to foreign countries. The land is not hilly but there are a few bogs in the district and the rest of the land is good. There is a fir wood growing in Pellick which is called "Pellick Wood" which covers four acres of land. The river Douglas a tributary of the Bride, runs through the district. There are no streams or lakes in the townland. Beul lice means "exposed part of rocks" which are near the river there the water is very shallow. There is also a small plantation[?] in Pellick, and a few large ponds as well.

  15. Passage West Railway

    CBÉS 0390

    Page 155

    On June 26th 1847 the first sod of turf was cut marking the sight of the Cork, Blackrock, and Passage railway. It was doubtful at first if the railway would ever be completed but fortunately some business men took it into their hands and completed it. At the end of three years the first train passed over the line to the delight of the city people who wished to go to the country. From Cork to Passage it was not very difficult to make the line but at Blackrock they had to make a deep cutting to reach the mouth of the Douglas Channel. From that they had to fill in the line as far as Horse Head, from which place they had to build a sea wall to the station at Passage which finished the work for the

  16. A Local Landlord

    CBÉS 0401

    Page 228

    There was a landlord in Tullahinell long ago. His name was Blacker Douglas. He was one of the best landlords in Ireland. He was very good to his tenants. He lived in Belfast. He had three agents in Tullahinell - Trench, Beel and Mullins. He had a farm and a big yard. In his yard he had several trades such as farming, carpentry and smithing. He had several machines and he also had a mill. He gathered water in a pool and worked the machines by water. He employed the

  17. The Landlord

    CBÉS 0403

    Page 014

    Mr. Blacker Douglas was the landlord in Tullihinell. The family were in the district for many years. He was a great landlord. There were no evictions or plantings in his time. The landlord was known to be the possessor of the land for many years back. The land was divided into farms under his guidance. On marriage land was subdivided among members of families. The landlord collected all his tenants and had a great feast to mark the occasions of his marriage and later of his sons. The tenants were not punished for trivial acts. Tithes were not collected in this district.

  18. Local Place Names

    CBÉS 0405

    Page 227

    The Marshy field.
    This is a field in Moloney's land in Coilagurteen. It is so called because it is a very wet field, and it is full of rushes, and the Douglas Glasha is running at the end of it.
    The Glasha meadow.
    This is a meadow in Broderick's land in Coilagurteen. It is so called because it is a very wet meadow, and the Douglas Glasha is also running at the end of it.
    The Black meadow
    This is a meadow in James Moloney's land in Coilagurteen. It is so called because it is a very black meadow, and it is also very rocky.
    Maher's meadow
    This is a meadow in Coilagurteen, it was first owned by a man named Maher, but it is now owned by Patrick Mulvihill, and it is ever since called Maher's meadow.

  19. An Old Story

    CBÉS 0435

    Page 255

    There is a fort down the Ballykissane Road it is in the fields, then there is another one down further where all the unbaptised children are buried and it is said that long ago people used to hear children crying around there.
    There are a great many more forts around Killorglin. there is a fort in Douglas and there are a great many very tall trees growing around it. It is very dark inside it and it is very lonely there.

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    “There is a stone in Douglas's field, Robinstown, Ballivor and there is the mark of a bare-foot on it.”

    CBÉS 0694

    Page 369

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    There is a stone in Douglas's field Robinstown, Ballivor and there is the mark of a bare - foot on it. This is said to be the track of some saint when he was walking. No one says who the saint was. In the track of the heel there is always a drop of water. If you put that water on warts it would cure them.