Volume: CBÉ 0407 (Part 1)

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1. The Mummers' Band (continued)

   

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   Mummer's Band (ctd from p.16)
   Another member of the band walked on stilts with a long white garment made of four sheets. He sometimes wore a "móg" on his head. A "móg" is a scooped out turnip with holes for eyes and nose and mouth with enormous teeth. A candle can be fixed inside the móg and the result is realistic and terrifying. The Christian name Mogue is fairly common in Carlow and very much so in Wexford where it is translated MOSES.
   Mogue = Mo Áodh-óg (pat. saint of Ferns). There was another St. "Móg" associated with Clonmore, Co Carlow. St. "Móg's" well is there.

   

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2. 'Ballybar with Butter on It' (continued)

   

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   Ballybar Races (ctd from p.40) = the Puck Fair (Co Kerry) of Carlow and the Barronstown Races (Co.Tipp). The Races continued for a week in former days. When I was a boy we had three days' 'divarstion'. Sunday (free day) for sight-seeing, and Monday and Tuesday for Racing. All the 'trick of the lúbs' of Ireland attended, and all the Maggie Wattles, Big Wheels, Shooting Galleries " etc. The railway runs beside the course and all trains used to stop at the "Siding" on race days. Discontinued since 1906 or so.

   

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