Volume: CBÉ 0190
Archival Reference
The Main Manuscript Collection, Volume 0190, Page 166
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“Long ago the tide used to come from Kilmore Quay to Baldwinstown.”
(continued from previous page)at him. He fired a shot a him and killed him. He went home to his breakfast after hunting for a couple of hours and the first thing he saw when he went in was a black kitten it said to him. "Row row you've killed your dow". He was about to fire a shot at the kitten when it flew at him and stuck in his neck and never let go until it killed. That happened in the year 1636 and Walter Whitty of Ballyteigue Castle is buried in Grange Cemetery inside the walls of the old church. There is a headstone over his grave and the cat is to be seen on the top of it that is the form of the cat is on the headstone. There was a wooden(continues on next page)