Caldry, the bush field, the armenia, the long field, the Clonmellon field, the flaxgarden, the brick field, the new grass field, the hanging field, the high field, the onion field, the ash park, the Cunning's field, the blackthorn field, the horse field, the bull park, the white field, the deer park. In the bloshga field, fairies used to kick football long ago. In the flax garden, fairies used to bury other fairies long ago. In the quarry field every night long ago you would see other fairies sitting on the bank playing music. In

The Warty Well is situated on the side of the road between Clonmellon and Killalon. It is so called because several people were cured of warts in it. To get cured of warts one must dip their hands in the well and when they go home say three "Paters" three "Aves" and three "Glorias" each night and

This castle is situated one mile outside the town of Clonmellon. Built in 1311 Sir John Rielly lived there in the time of Cromwell. Cromwell, having journeyed

other fairs like :- Mullage, Kells, Clonmellon and Virginia, but they are still continued every month. I do not know of any fairs held at crossroads or on hills or at any special houses. Sometimes people sell their animals at their own house.

brought that course upon the people. There used to be a boiler at Daly's in Archerstown and another in Collinstown and another in Clonmellon distributing oatmeal porridge to the people. No one knows how the blight came on the potatoes. The potatoes were set in ridges with spades. The people had porridge instead of the potatoes and some turnips but the turnips were scarce at that time.

The names of the roads in my district are "Burnagurp". (Bóthar na gCorp) and the "New Line". The former leads from Crowenstown School to the main road, between Delvin and Clonmellon, and it is so called because there is a graveyard on it and the latter leads from that road to a by-road at Addenstown. It is not known when they were made. There are

I was told there was a fairies' Pass between Cnoc-na-Rí across Clonmellon Main Street to "Doughty's Fort" in the fields South of the town. The path goes through the Priests' fields down Annie Reilly's garden and out at her gate, then across the street, through our hall (McGraths), up our garden and down Dixon's fields to the Fort. My grandmother (Mrs Evans) told me that there was a man living in our house called Captain "Federson" who one night at twelve o clock saw fairies passing from Reilly's Gate across the street and into our house on their way through.

When there was no chapel in Clonmellon the people had to go to mass in Ballinlough. They used to take a short cut by Cnoch a Lougha. There was a lot of fish in the lake and the people used to fish in it and be late for Mass. The priest cast a charm on the lake and there were no fish in it.

There is a fort in Rosmead. It is surrounded by a fence of trees. It is circular. The Danes built it. There is a story told about the fort in Rosmead. This is the story - Nicholas Clinton a native of Clonmellon was crossing a field near the fort at Rosmead one night, he saw a fair. The people were selling all kinds of fruit, and they were shouting "Who will buy?" but Nicholas Clinton "They packed his pockets with oranges, and apples. When he got home he found that his pockets were full of horse manure.
There is a fort in Galboystown. There is a fence of trees around it. It was the Danes that built it. The Fairies used to live in the fort. Music was heard in it. There is a story told about the fort at Galboystown. This is the story - A man living in the town of Clonmellon was sitting on the back of a ditch one summer's evening near the fort at Galboystown with a crowd of people. The people used to sit on the bank every summer. The man stood upon the bank and he saw people kicking football. The other people could not see them. Then the man said he would go down, the people tried to stop him but they could not so he went down, and they kept him kicking till they nearly killed him. He would have died only for Doctor Davage bled his ears. It happened about ninety years ago.

The local roads in this district are The Kells Rd, Kitrush Rd, Kilskyre Rd, Killallon Rd and the Delvin Rd. The Kells Rd leads to Kells. The Kilrush road leads to Kilrush and so on. I do not know when they were made Hartstown Boreen leads to a lot of houses in the fields Floods & Boreen leads to Floods house. A mass path used to lead from Cloran through Killua to Clonmellon to enable the people of Cloran to come to mass. Long ago people used to dance and play Pitch and Toss at a crossroads

A local fair is held in Clonmellon once a month the fair is held on the street. All big buyer's have raddles and they mark the cattle or sheep bought. Other men have a scissors and they cut a bit of the hair from them. When a man is buying a suck calf he usually gets a shilling for a luckpenny. If a cow or a year old beast is sold the buyer usually gets a half - crown for a luck penny.

There are three forges in the parish of Clonmellon One is dis used. It was the principal forge in days gone by. Thomas Mc Dermott was the black smiths name

Lewis's fort in the townland of Kilrush, Clonmellon.
Salts fort in the townloand of Galboystown
Clonmellon
Theses are not in near of each other. They are circular. There are trees, earth stone round them. Fairies were supposed to live in Lewis's fort. At Clanarney in Rosmead the tracks of St Patrick's knees and hands are in a field there and a protestant man ploughed the field, and ploughed the place where St. Patrick knelt and the next morning his two horses were dead in the stables and the field was green. Paddy Dunne a native of Newtown was coming home from a ceilidhe in Bennets of Kilrush and he took a short cut across the fields home. He went into a field and he was walking around the field the whole night and could not get out until dawn

There is a ruined castle in the locality. I don't know who built it and I don't know what age it is. It is situated in Ballinlong in the parish of Clonmellon, and in the Barony of Delvin, It was attached by Cromwell. I don't know anything else about it.

The part of the Kells road that runs through Killua was made by the government as relief work during the famine of eighteen forty seven and so also was the part of the Delvin Road, that runs through a big hill and that part was known afterwards known as the "The Spilt Hills" because the hill was split in two. There was an old mass path from Cloran to Clonmellon

his surprise he found them seated comfortably around a blazing fire - not worrying in the least about his absence as it was only shortly after six o clock. He had been awakened by the Angelus bell ringing in Clonmellon.

There is this impression somehow that the twin hills were originally one great ridge, and that many thousands of years ago, some terrific force of nature or magic heaved them apart.
At any rate thus runs the legend : -
Long years ago, when the Firbolg people reigned over Ireland the Lady Mella dwelt with her father, Prince Roscar, near Clonmellon in Co Westmeath. They were of the De Danaan race and they come to Ireland during the last few years of the Firbolg occupation. Roscar established himself here and ruled over all the lands of Clonmellon, Kilrush and Killua. His dwelling was on one of the many hills of the district, most likely in the very heart of the great woods of Killua.
They were well known for Roscar was great and powerful and the fame of Mella's beauty had spread far and wide. Chiefs and Princes of all the most powerful clans came to beg her hand in marriage, but she had given her heart to Aulinn the poorish of them all. Aulinn was tall and handsome and a brave warrior but on account of his poverty and a slight deformity in one of his hands Roscar would have none of him as a son-in-law. He wished her to choose the song of one the Great Kings

In Clonmellon about sixty years ago there was a man called John King and he used to do weaving. The people called (him) "King the Weaver".He had a big loom and he would have skeans of flax hanging on it, in his own little house in a small street called "Slate Row" in Clonmellon.He used to make material for sheets and shirts or such things, this linen used to be called "Buna" linen. He would only go to special houses to weave, and anybody else that would want things woven would have to bring it to his own house. - This house is now newly done up and occupied by a family named Cahill.T. De Bhond, Baile Nua

Killua castle is situated near Clonmellon, part of this castle was there in the time of Cromwell. The Chapmans were the first family who came to it, they were some of Cromwells soldiers and it is said that name was got in this way. When Cromwell was in Killua he called one of his soldiers a chap, then he called him a man, and it is said that this soldier afterwards got the castle. The Chapman's built a lot of towers to it, it is thirty years since the last one died.

The Church-yard MeadowIt is so called because there is a churchyard in the field at Killua, Clonmellon, Co Westmeath
Mar's Field (Maher)A man named Maher used to own the field and he called it that name. It is situated at Moygrehan Athboy, Co. Meath.
The Billard FieldA man used to own a big estate at Rushbrook, Athboy. He divided it into small farms and each farm was called a name and this is one of them.
The Well FieldIt is so called because there is a well in it. It is in Clonmellon.