Jas Coates.
One night Jack Kinsella was going home from Knockananna after having a few pints. He went across the fields to Gurteen. When he got to the [head] of the field he couldn't cross the ditch. He lay down & he saw a funeral & a large funeral & they all with great big tall hats on them & he never knew one of them only Ned McCabe & he asked Ned what had him there but he got no answer.Mr. O'Toole tells me that Coates wd. not tell him these tales in the house in wh. he was when Mr O'Toole called with the Ediphone. He wd. not tell them in the motor-car because "people wd. be looking at him". Finally they went into the Catholic church at Knockananna (where Coates is the clerk) & there Coates recorded the above tales!
[___] 15/12/34 at 28 Kenilworth Sq. Mr O' Toole beside me at the fire as I write.

One night 3 men from Knockananna were coming from the Glen on a sidecar & when they came to the Mullawn Cross they noticed a crowd down in the field away from them. Then the crowd drew nearer & they saw they were little people about the size of a child of 10 years & they all

about one of the characters + so on. Back again + again though ever so leisurely over the different little sidelines I brought him in attempt to get even a skeleton impression of the Rebellion as his great old grandmother saw it.
Her father, - his great grandfather was a whithy who came from the neighbourhood of Ferns Co. Wexford & married a Keefe of Faransight (a townland now embraced in Ardnaboy Knockananna & no longer known by that name). They got a farm at Kyle a mile away, from Lieut. Lawrence - a hillside farm. His grandmother was 16 the day of the

the soldiers used to come & take it while they could reach till they only left a little beehive of it in the centre. They had an old chest in the house & there was 40gns. in the bottom of it & the soldiers wives came in & took out the chest & smashed it in the yard & took the money.
Tom also tells of Dwyer's escape from Kilamoat (Mrs. OToole says Knockananna but Kilamoat is I think correct) in the same way as Mrs. O'Toole except that when the Capt of the yeos saw the 3 lads running he said "There he goes & Hugh Byrne at one side & Burke at the other ".

centre of his forehead. When he came home he dropped on the kitchen floor & had to be put to bed & never did a bit of good after. When he was dying his son - a Catholic said "Father are you going to turn with us." "I'd rather burn" he said "than turn" so the son called for Jas Graham - an uncle of Pats of Knockananna "Come here till we take him to the fire" so they took him out of the bed & put his feet in the fire so when his feet began to burn he called out for the priest.
She said that at home in Ryle they had a stack of oats on a frame in the haggard &

The Perrys of Ballymaghroe took a Holy water font out of Ballymaghroe graveyard & used it for a pig trough but it was too deep so they broke a piece out of the side of it but every pig that ate out of it got the fits so they had to leave it back in the graveyard again.N.B. The Rathmeigue schoolchildren found this font after considerable search as it was buried beneath the sod. It is a yard in diameter & has two raised crosses on opposite sides of it about 1' long & true enough there is a piece broken from the top of it. It is now outside Knockananna church where it was removed to by V. Rev. [Jas. Dunne?] P.P.

Stories from Jas Coates 68 Knockananna.
heard from mother
____Some years ago an old woman told me this She said when she was little girl a North Country woman stopped at her house & had a little girl about her own age & this day the two women went to the fairs of Hacketstown & the girls when they got the house to themselves said that they would have a feast & they prepared the meal [hearty] and all things were on the table except milk & the little girl said she'd get milk. She leaped up on the table and over the window there was a board & she took down a little wooden cow & started milking & they had milk enough. - they had too much & that evening the cows all started to run their milk & when