Long ago the tide used to come from Kilmore Quay to Baldwinstown. Kilmore is about four miles from Baldwinstown. There are a lot of signs that it did come up as far as that

The Pattern of Kilcowan Graveyard (near Baldwinstown) is held on 15th August.The Pattern of Kilmore Graveyard is held on 17th March.There is a Blessed Well just near Baldwinstown called Slánsmaid Well (Slán méad)?

There was a wake held in a barn in Baldwinstown a long time ago. A crowd of fellows came in to it about eleven or twelve o clock and they took the corpse out of the bed and walked him up the floor. Some of the boys behind were trying to trip him and more of them were givin him boxes in the mouth.There was a woman walking in the same place wan time and she had a hump on her back. She couldn't be got to lie down in the bed on account of the hump so they tied her down to the floor with

This would be put spinning and then it would stop and turn over on one of it's sides and then that would be a certain number on top, if that was "pay up" the spinner would have to pay out sixpence or whatever wager was on the game and then if it was "take all" he would take whatever money would be on the table. They played this game one night at a wake in Baldwinstown and they had no place to spin the tutorntutorn only in a hat and one man made nine shillings at the game.There was another game used to be played with a piece of a cord or with a handkerchief. Two fellows would catch the cord, each of them would have one end each and one of them would

for there is a house not far from Baldwinstown called Strand house and that same name is on this house this long time. Another sign is sand. The fields are very sandy in that locality and often times ploughmen plough up sea shells.There is a castle in Ballyteige, Ballyteige castle, and people by the name of Whitty lived in it in the seventeenth century. Walter Whitty was the last that lived in it. He used to go in a boat from Ballyteigue to Ballymager to see a girl. That was the time the tide used to come in to Balwinstown. Walter Whitty was going with this girl for a long time and it was arranged that they would be married in a short

During the famine méal used to be given out in Baldwinstown by a man named John Brown.
Ten of us used go down for the meal. A pound of yellow méal used to be given out to a family of nine or ten.
You could go to the Rails (Receive Holy Communion) after ating it and say you hadn't broke the fast.
I worked with a farmer since I was twelve years of age, and the pay I had

When we were young we would go to the devil after races. There used to be alot of races held about the county and it bet all the crowds that used to come there. There was no bikes or cars in them times and the most of the crowd came on foot.
I walked from the Castle of Baldwinstown to the Races of Adamstown. That was twenty two miles. That's more than seventy years ago. I hadn't a shoe nor a stocking on me, only an ould torn coat and a cordoroy breeches.
All the money I had in me possession was wan halfpenny. When I reached the race course I bought a bappart of biscuits. the boss and a lot móre of the big bucks around here were there, and every time I'd be

There was another ould fellow by the name of Sutton and he was a devil at the rhymes. He was changing wan time from Bannon to Tomhaggard. He was going to live there. When they were passing through Baldwinstown there were people at every door watching and making fun of him.
"As i went down through Belwinstown
Where there was neither church nor steeple
In every door there stood a whore
To laugh at dacent people"Another time some one asked him how was the family, and where they were, and so on.
Well says he:
(daughters) "I have two heifers in Bannow
(son) A Bullock in Mountpill
(wife) The ould Cow is in Rathnaden
(himself) And the Bull he's in Springhill"Sutton was workign at Hayes' of Streamville want time, at farm work. HE was no good after horses or anythign like that.
Anyway Hayes employed anotehr man wan day by the name of Ned Fitz', a great latin

The Captains Rhyme.
Here I am the Captains bold
I lead no rebel throng
But a chosen band of heroes grand
To Baldwinstown we belong.
With mirth and forth we do resort
And for diversion play
And with our skill great nations fill
With terror and dismay.
I hope you will good order keep and
Strict attention pay
And listen to our heroes
And what they've got to say.
The first is our great king George
May fortune on him smile
The next he is St. Patrick
The patron of our Isle.
The third Napoleon Bonaparte
The conqueror of renown
Close followed by Lord Wellington
Who swears he'll pull him down.
The next is the emperor of Russia
That monarch