Cappamore is the name of my home district, in the middle of Turagh, Parish of Cappamore and in the Barony of Owneybeg. In the townland of Cappamore, the population would be roughly about five hundred.
The most common name in my district is Ryan. Slated houses are more numerous than thatched houses in Cappamore. The village in which I live got it's name from a big tillage plot. The old people here can only tell stories in English. Houses are more numerous

weaver in Cappamore village named Michael O'Neill, and others in the rural area.

-garde, Cappamore.

Michael Laffan, born in Eyon near Cappamore, was at one time a noted weight thrower. He excelled in throwing any weight from twenty eight pounds to fifty six pounds. The late John O'Grady, a relative of Michael Laffan was also a noted weight thrower. He was a native of Ballybricken, about ten miles from the village of Cappamore.
A man named O'Driscoll, who was at one time a policeman ran from the village of Cappamore to the village of Doon a distance of three miles in nine minutes.
About a hundred years ago, the people in this district used walk from here to Dublin and Waterford and other places. The [?] Bawn who was an outlaw was hunted everywhere by the police for robbery, walked from Cappamore to Cork in a day and a half.
Some great mowers lived in Cappamore in years gone by. One who lived until quite recently was Michael Ruth. He used to mow and Irish acre of hay every day. Another named Ryan (Glen) a native of Bilboa was another noted mower. Michael Ryan leaped from one gate pier to

I live in the parish of Cappamore which is in the east of Limerick. The village of Cappamore stands on the Bilboa river, a tributary of the Mulcaire which flows into the Shannon at Annacotty, near Limerick. Cappamore is in a hollow position, and is very often visited by floods. The Glosha river rises in Killaine and flows down the mountains into the Bilboa river.
During the month of June 1907 when the people thought the rainy seasons were all gone, one day in the middle of June the day turned dark and threatening. It started to rain about two o'clock and stopped at six next day.
The Glosha river was too small to contain all the water so it rushed down with great speed and knocked Glosha Bridge. A great number of houses that were near the river were flooded. Sheep, cattle and pigs also taken away. Cappamore was flooded for about three days.

Cappamore means "the large tillage plot."There are some old people in Cappamore but they do not know Irish. Some of their names are : - Mrs Ryan Main Street, Cappamore, Co. Limerick, who is 74 years, Miss Margaret Crowe of Main Street also who is 80, and Mr. John Howard who is 77.Houses were more numerous locally in former times. There are no ruined houses to be seen in Turagh or Cappamore.A lot of people emigrated to the United States from this place.

About forty years ago there lived in Cappamore, Co. Limerick two great mowers with the scythe; William Cahill, Turagh, Cappamore, and Michael Ruth, Portnard, Cappamore. Every day they went mowing they used mow two acres each with the scythe.
One day they went out and mowed two acres and a half per man. The average mowing for one man was two and a half acres.

There was a priest during the penal times called Father O'Shea, a native of Dundrum, Co. Tipperary. There was a price on his head, and he ran away. He hid in one of Jack Dwyer's fields, Cappamore, Co. Limerick and the people supported him. He used to say mass in the chapel in Towerhill, Cappamore, Barony of Owney Beg, Co. Limerick where the graveyard is now. One Sunday morning when he was going down to the chapel to say mass, some soldiers caught him, and cut off his head, and the people following

area before the G.A.A., and then Cappamore in 1887 sent four heroes to bring the first hurling crown to Limerick. There is no need to mention this here, as the name and fame of Mulcahy, Condon, Butler and John Hynes are too well known to need me telling. However it is enough to say Cappamore has always given brave men to the game.

My father, Pat Butler, who lives in Shanacloone in the parish of Cappamore was a great hunter long ago. He was one of the Limerick team which won the All-Ireland championship in 1898. This match was played at Thurles and the opponents were the Kilkenny team. Limerick won by one goal and one point. It was my father who scored the last goal which gave Limerick the victory. It was the first All-Ireland championship won by Limerick. It also happened that on the day they won the All-Ireland championship, the Archbishop of the Diocese of Cashel and Emly, Dr. Croke, marched out to the field, gave his blessing to both teams, and then threw in the ball for the match.
My father was also in the winning of a County Final between Cappamore and Ballingarry in the year 1899. The Cappamore

The village of Cappamore Barony of Owney Beg in the Co. Limerick is my home district. There are about a hundred families and about 600 people. Nearly all the houses are slated but a few are thatched. Any thatched house hardly ever is two storeys high. It is said when the Moores of Leix and Offaly were dispossessed of their lands that they fled to Cappamore and that is how it got it's name. There are two streets in Cappamore known as Long Street and Main Street. Nearly all the houses in Long Street are one storey high, and nearly all the houses in Main Street are two storeys high.
The houses in my home district were more plentiful in olden times, but the ruins only remain of some of them now as the people who were living in them have gone to England or America seeking work. But at present there are a lot of new houses getting built and in a couple of years time

per cent of the tax, and the remainder goes to the government.
There are some beautiful buildings destroyed by the Black-and-Tans. There is a song named "as I was coming from the fair of Cappamore" and the townsland's name is mentioned in it. Some part of the land is good, more boggy, and more of it limestone.
Owneybeg is the barony of Cappamore. The population of Cappamore and Turagh comprises about five hundred people. The biggest wood in the district is Portnard. The wood extends over fifty acres. The houses nowadays are more numerous, they are mostly all slated. Ryan is the most common name in this district.

name Ryan Figheadóra still exists in Nicker.
Basket making was carried on in Bilboa by the Laffans. The baskets were made from willows or weak sallies. The people used large baskets (for bringing turf) which were called the Kish.
Nail making was carried on in Cappamore by the Connerys and Waver.
There is a man in Cappamore called Willie the nailer.
Top making was also carried on in Cappamore by Martin Friend. The tops were called Martin Friends.Person from whom I received story - Thomas Power
Approximate age - sixty four
Address - Bilboa, Cappamore
How long residing here - thirty years
Paddy Power

through Cappamore and joins the Mulcair. It is called the Portnard River.

My home district is Coonan in the parish of Cappamore in County Limerick, in the barony of Coonagh. There are four families in it. The population is about twenty. The houses are slated. Cooneen got its name because it was full of rabbits. The Irish word for rabbit is "coinín." Jack Walsh is the only person over seventy in this townsland. His address is Cooneen, Cappamore, County Limerick. He does not know any Irish but can tell stories in English. There are no ruined houses in Cooneen. There is a stream in Jack Walshe's field, it is called the Main Stream. It flows through his farm and joins the Glasha River in the part of Tom Walshe's farm in the townsland of Bilboa.

About this time the "three" and "four" year olds were fighting and many engagements took place at fairs, markets etc in Cappamore.
It was either in his time or in Fr. Clery's time that a great mission came to this parish. Before the mission closed he gathered all the rival factions from far and near and when he had them all together in Mr. Blackwell's field opposite the Cappamore Catholic Church he ordered them all to kneel down and pledge their word to him that they would forget their differences and live in peace. There was an end to the faction fights in this part of the county since then.

One night Denis Hayes's father who lived in Towerhill, Cappamore, Co. Limerick about a hundred years ago, was going home from Miss Brennan's house, Turagh, Cappamore, Co. Limerick. He used always come up playing cards to her house. One night he was going home across the fields he saw a crowd of horse-men coming up the fields with dogs following them. He got afraid. Then a man walked up to him and asked him to play a game of cards. He said he wouldn't, and he ran away as quickly as ever his legs could carry him. When he reached home, he was panting very hard adn his father asked what had happened him. He made no answer. After about half an hour he said that he met a man and a hunt coming towards him and that one man asked him to play a game of cards and that he said he wouldn't. The men were fairies, and their horses were not of this world.

My grandfather Michael Conroy was the last nail maker in Cappamore. He lived in the village of Cappamore, in the Barony of Owney Beg, in the County of Limerick. He used make two hundred nails a day. He is dead forty-years and he was sixty six years when he died. He used to sell nails in the big shops in this village, often he would go into Limerick and the nails dealer. When he would have all the nails sold he would buy more wire and messages. He used to make every kind of nail horse-nails, wire-nails, and six inch nails and tacks.

But now I'm far away from you;
I'll climb that hill no more;
Or listen to the lark's loud song
that sings o'er CappamoreWhen letters come from home to me,
'tis sadly I lament.
The cruel fate that tempted me when far
from you I went;
I cheer myself in spite of all,
But still I can't ignore
The fact that Fate has severed
us - my own dear Cappamore.And never while this heart can
beat shall I forget you dear,
Though absent from my longing gaze,
in dreams you still are near;
Oh, never till my race is run, and
span of life is o'er
Shall I forget those grand old
days I spent round Cappamore.Composed by Thomas O'Shea, a native of Dromsally Cappamore, Co. Limerick in the year 1917, when he was residing in Ballycastle, Co. Antrim. He is now back again in his native Cappamore, + is an insurance agent.

My home district is Cappamore. The townland name is Turagh. Mrs. Keating, Cappamore, is the Baroness of the fair. The fair used to be held in the Fair Field on her farm. Nowadays, the fair is held on the street to give the shopkeepers a chance of doing business. She engages men to stand at the "Custom gaps" at each end of the village. All who buy at the fair have to pay a tax, sixpence on a calf and one shilling on a cow. She receives fifty