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  1. Local Heroes

    CBÉS 0519

    Page 006

    About fifty years ago, Darby OBrien Pallasbeg, Cappamore was a marvelous athlete. He was the youngest brother of the family. His father was a small farmer. Darby O'Brien jumped 38 feet with three standing jumps in Limerick. He also jumped 36 feet in Cappamore and in many other places. He gave great jumps but there were no records taken at that time.
    Tim Brennan, Portnard was a great runner.
    Jim Maloney Bilboa was a great step dancer.
    John Walshe Glosha is a great stone lifter. He lifted a stone 3 cwt.

  2. In Penal Times

    CBÉS 0519

    Page 012

    There are a number of Mass rocks in the parish of Cappamore. There is a mass rock on the top of Patrick O'Donnel's hill where mass was said in Penal days. When priests were afraid to say mass in the

  3. Cloonteen District

    CBÉS 0519

    Page 077

    Cloonteen is a townsland in the parish of Cappamore in the Barony of Coonagh. There are 18 families living in it and the population is 70. Ryan is the most common name. There are different kinds of houses, there are thatched houses and slated houses, and houses with iron roofs. There is one old person living in the townsland. she does not know any Irish. Her address is Mrs. Dawson Cloonteen, Cappamore, Co. Limerick.
    The houses were more numerous locally in former times but there is no ruin now. Some people emigrated from the townsland to America in former times.
    Some of the land is boggy and some of it is good. There are no woods or rivers. "Cloonteen" is English for Clúainín which means "the little meadow". This little meadow is only half-acre in size and is on Ryan's land.
    Cloonteen bounds on the townsland of Shanaclune which means "the old meadow". This old meadow is in Mrs McCarthy's land and is about three acres in area.

  4. Hidden Treasure

    CBÉS 0520

    Page 104

    One night aout fifty years ago Thomas Moore Turagh, Cappamore, Co. Limerick, had a dream that there was a pot of gold hid in the corner of his field. Thomas Moore, Ned Wade and John

  5. Hidden Treasure

    CBÉS 0520

    Page 110

    It is said that treasure is supposed to have been hidden by the Danes when they came to Ireland, in Towerhill graveyard, Cappamore, Co. Limerick. It is said they hid it there because the Irish were trying to take it from them, for themselves.

  6. A Story on Card Playing

    CBÉS 0520

    Page 145

    Once upon a time in Towerhill, Cappamore, Co. Limerick, some people were playing cards for a turkey in a house where a man named Thady Ryan lived and, is living yet. The people remained playing the cards until facing mid-night when finally they stopped and went home. When they had just gone Thady was doing something around the house when he looked into the tankards of milk and to his surprise, he found the tankards full of blood. So no one ever

  7. My Home District - Towerhill, Cappamore, Barony of Coonagh, Co. Limerick

    CBÉS 0520

    Page 153

    I live in Towerhill, Cappamore, in the Barony of Coonagh, Co. Limerick. There are twenty-five houses, four thatched houses, and seventy people. O'Malley is the most common name. It's area is 456 acres. There are 15 farmers' houses and 10 labourers' houses. Towerhill is called after the round tower in the top of Patrick O'Malley's quarry. There are 8 old people in Towerhill and the language spoken by them is

  8. My Home District - Cappamore, Barony of Owneybeg, in the County Limerick

    CBÉS 0520

    Page 156

    I expect that there will be more houses than ever.
    On the west side of the villagre lies a very large wood called "Blackwell's Wood" and near it there is a large bog in which the people of the parish cut turf.
    There is a famous song called after Cappamore knows as "As I was coming from the fair of Cappamore"
    At the back of the village flows the "River Mulkear" by which the creamery is driven.
    At the end of the "MainStreet" flows a tributary of the Mulkear which often causes the street to be flooded in wet weather.

  9. Basket-Making

    CBÉS 0520

    Page 160

    About 30 years ago a man named Tom Laffan, Bilboa, Cappamore, Co Limerick made baskets. He cut sally rods and worked them through each other to make the baskets. His son John who is still alive can make baskets also. Not many years ago John made calf-baskets and sold them to farmers. But he has given up making baskets now.

  10. An Old Cooper

    CBÉS 0520

    Page 161

    About 26 years ago there lived in Killuragh Capamore, Barony of Coonagh, Co. Limerick, a man by the name of Tom Barry. he was a cooper by trade, and he used to make tubs, keelers, firkins, barrels, and timber cans for milking cows into. He used to sell the firkins, to the Cappamore Creamery and to Toher Creamery. The firkins used to hold 1 Cwt. of butter. Since he died the creameries make boxes for the butter.

  11. Thatching

    CBÉS 0520

    Page 166

    whatever rushes were hanging down from the eave of the house and straightened the eave. Then the thatching was finished. There were several thatchers in Cappamore. Tommy O'Brien and his brother Jimmy O'Brien were the best.

  12. May Eve Customs

    “Long ago there lived a man who name was Tom Conors, Cappamore, Co. Limerick and he used to make piseogs every May Eve.”

    CBÉS 0520

    Page 217

    Long ago, there lived a man who name was Tom Conors, Cappamore, Co. Limerick and he used to make piseogs every May Eve. He used

  13. Fairy Forts

    CBÉS 0520

    Page 282

    There was once a man and he was going home from Cappamore. He thought that a tree fell across the road, he could hear it creaking. He went into a house and a boy came in after him, and he asked him had he seen a tree across the road, and he said, "no".

  14. Crann Harry

    CBÉS 0521

    Page 029

    The root and portion of the trunk of what is believed to be Crann Harry is still to be seen in Pallasbeg, Cappamore. The remains of the trunk is extremely round conveying the idea that the tree before it was cut should be of an immense size. The story we

  15. Local Place Names

    CBÉS 0521

    Page 167

    The name of this place is Knocknacorriga which means the Hill of rock as the place is full of limestones. Near hand is a field called the "Shanagurth" (Seana Guirt) which means the old garden because it is very old. Another field nearby is called the "Thoras". These two belong to Mr. Michael Cunningham, Doon Glebe, Cappamore, Co Limerick.
    A field in Gurtmanagh is called the "Wild Cats". The people long ago believed that wild cats were in that field. This field is belonging to Mr. Thompson, Castlegarde House, Cappamore.
    Another field near this place is "the well" field because there is a well in the corner of it. It belongs to Mr. Michael O'Connell, Castlegarde.
    Fields belonging to James Quinlan

  16. Fields

    CBÉS 0521

    Page 238

    In Mr. Campbell's farm in Towerhill there is a field called "Páirc na Sralle". In Mr. Cunningham's farm, Knocknacorriga there is a field called "Páirc buí". In Mr. Blackwell's farm Cappamore there is a field called Inse Liand

  17. Local Roads

    CBÉS 0522

    Page 098

    There are a lot of roads in this district. They are called by different names. They are the mountainy road, the new road, the blue road, the Cappamore road. The mountainy road and the Ca ppamore are the most used roads of all. The mountainy road leads to Glenstal and to the Black Molls Barracks and to the white walls and to

  18. My Native Cappamore

    CBÉS 0520

    Page 246

    Sweet Cappamore, my native place,
    you're always in my mind,
    I think of you where'er I go, as one
    I left behind;
    I often think of brighter days, those
    happy days of your,
    When but a boy, I roamed with joy around
    dear old Cappamore
    But now alas! those days are gone
    they'll ne'er return again,
    And every time I think of them, my
    heard is filled with pain;
    But long as life remains with me
    their memory I'll adore,
    For they were happy days for me, those
    days in Cappamore.
    Those far off days I went to school - in
    dreams I live them still-
    When, with my comrades, full of glee,
    I climbed Dromsally Hill

  19. Fairs

    CBÉS 0520

    Page 028

    The local fair is and was always held in the village of Cappamore. Sometimes the farmers take their cattle to the "Munster Fair" in Limerick. It was always & is now remarked that the last mentioned fair never passed without rain.
    The neighbours generally settled on an hour for leaving & they all travelled together with their cattle.
    The fair in Cappamore was held in the streets & tolls had to be paid out of each animal when leaving the fair. Luck money was always given & the amount varied according to the nature of the beast. Farmers here had long ago a rod of iron with their initials in iron on a flat end of it. They dipped this in tar and put it then on the animal's flank. Others tied a certain coloured string to their horns or tails.
    Pigs or bonhams were judged to be a good thriving or fattening breed if they had long drooping ears - "Don't mind the little cocked ears" was a saying.
    They examined the skin of a cow's tail

  20. Hidden Treasure

    CBÉS 0520

    Page 116

    Hidden Treasure
    In a lios in O' Callaghan's field, Turagh, Cappamore, Co. Limerick, gold is supposed to be hidden . Some people hid it there long ago when the Danes came to Ireland, because they were afraid the Danes would come to their houses and take it from them. cottemths were made by some people to get it, but they were driven back by a spirit in the shape of a bull. The people say that you should go in the middle of the night and carry a crock, a blessed candle, and holy water, in addition to a couple of spades with which to dig it.
    Patrick Conners (age 12..3)
    Moore Street,
    Cappamore
    Co. Limerick
    10.11.1937