Volume: CBÉ 0407 (Part 1)

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   “I spent most of summer holidays 1910 & 1911 in company with Willie Doyle. Fine steady young man of most exemplory who had devoted all his sprae time to the study of antiquities and folklore.”

   

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   my confessor was to send the owner of the pig house one shilling. I send him p/o for 10/-. Twas frosty weather. He went to Tullow, cashed the order, got drunk and broke his leg going home, So what is the moral?
   (d) Willie told me that the carriage lamps from the big house (Mount Carden) were used for the midnight mass both at sgeach an Aifrinn and at the Mass-stone of Waste Grass.
   (e) Together we search for & unearthed a beautiful cromlech near Aghade.It had lain hidden for ever so long beneath brush-wood.
   Note Book V page 341 "1910 Cromlech. Aghade, Newly "discovered. Found cromlech in Fox Covert, Aghade.
   "at present covering sone has fallen off one of its supports.
   "Near 'Meeting of the Waters'. Beautifully ornamented "with 'cup & channel' design".
   (f) Visited Ardoyne: Note page 197: Árdáin. "& dúta, 1 pillar-stone (VI, p 73); ruins of old church
   "(VIII, 103) 1 fort. Legend: St Patrick spent a night
   "Lore! See here also the 'stone that bled' about wh. the peasantry tell a marvellous story", wh. runs as well as I can remember:- Stone lies just inside wood ditch as you journey S from the forts & at a distance of 1/2 mile. The owner of the farm determined to blast it. It moaned

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   History Edit

   Date

   1910

   Item type

   Lore

   Language

   Béarla

   Writing mode

   Handwritten

   Writing script

   Roman script

   Informant

   • Liam Ó Dubhghaill