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  1. (gan teideal)

    “There is anether legend tould about the ould church at Shanco.”

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    he couldn't get a place ta read Mass in. Well anyway he prayed, that God might make things a bit easier for him, so wan night while he was ashleep he had a vision that he was in the undherground passage at Shanco, an' that he came across, a glass altar in the middle o' the passage, an' that all the Sacred Vessels belongin to it, war made o' glass also. But he was warned in the dhrame ta be very careful o' how he'd move in case he break any o' them or knock them against a sthone in the passage, for it was very narra for movin' about in.
    Any nexht mornin' when he wakened, didn't he say that he'd thry out his dhrame, so he made his way to the passage, an' sure enough if he didn't find the glass altar, an' the Sacred Vessels, an' fot war vestments he wanted, an' them all made o' glass. So he read his mass there, an' I believe that was all that was ever seen o' the altar in the passage at Shanco.

  2. (gan teideal)

    “There was a smith one time and he was very poor...”

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    him he wasn't good enough. He went off then until he came to the gates of hell. When he was going down the narrow passage the divil saw him and was afraid to let him in for he was too clever for them. So he told him he couldn't let him in. "Well" says the smith "I may as well go back on the world again then", and he started to go up the dark passage, but he couldn't find his way, so he went back and asked the divil to light a wisp of straw and give it to him to show him light. The divil did so and the wisp of straw never went out, and the smith is travelling around the world still, and he is known by the name of "Willie the Wisp".

  3. Will-o'-the-wisp

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    but St. Peter wouldn't let him in. "You are too bad for this place" say he "and we can't possibly let you in." He then turned and went down to the gate of hell and knocked there. The big devil came out to him. "What's wrong with you" says the devil. "I want to get inside" says he "We can't let you in here says the devil "you're too clever for us." I'll never be able to get out this long dark passage by myself" says the smith. The devil went back and got a wisp of straw and lit it and gave it to him to give him light coming back the dark passage.
    He wasn't let into heaven and he wasn't let into hell, so he is now travelling around the world with his wisp of straw, and that is the person that we call "Will-o-the Wisp."

  4. The Girl who Went Out to Frighten a Man

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    The Girl who went out to frighten a man
    Long ago there was a rich farmer lived in Rathcormac. His name was Curtain. He kept three men and a servant girl always working in the place. This girl, that was working in the house, she was a terrible card and she was up to all kinds of tricks. She was always playing tricks on the men. There was wan [one] of the men and she had an auld grá for him, and he used be drinking and she didn't like it. He used to go down to a pub every night for a pint or two.
    There was a auld passage from the pub up to the house, across the fields, 'twas a short cur. Well they used all say that this auld passage was

  5. (gan teideal)

    “Over at Crane's of Slevoy it used bet all the terms....”

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    Over at Crane’s of Selvoy it used bet all the terms that was in it. There was little Larry Crane and big Phil. Phil was about seventeen stone and Larry was a small kindred little brother. Their two need sleep in the one room a bed at each side and a passage between the two beds ; and there was a table up at the head. They would bring a big jug of milk into the room every night and have it on the table, to drink during the

  6. (gan teideal)

    “There was a woman one time lived in Shan about eight miles from the town of Wexford.”

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    the big divil, "is drive them all home that have crosses on their foreheads and let the king fuck his grandmother out of them." The big divil consented as he was partly afraid of Jack with his big walking-stick. So Jack went into hell with his big stick and drove out all the women with cross on their foreheads, out along the dark narrow passage, and travelled on until he came to the king's palace. He drove up all the women in front of the palace and then he roared at the king to come out and pick out his grandmother, that he had all the women with crosses on their foreheads that were in hell. The king came out and when he saw Jack, with the whole crowd of women all black and burned he got such a shock that he fell in a faint, then

  7. John Doyle and the Poteen

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    searched the house from top to bottom, but could find nothing. John had a secret door in the parlour-floor to the underground passage, but it was so well put in that the police never noticed it.
    But while the police were inside searching the house the fun was going on outside. It happened that there was an old tub at the stable door half-full of poteen that John forgot about when they were hiding it. The policemen's horse was tied to the stable door, and he put his mouth in the tub to get a drink, but he wasn't long drinking when he stopped as the taste was rather strange to him. But however strange the taste was it please him and he started again and never stopped until he had the

  8. (gan teideal)

    “There is anether legend tould about the ould church at Shanco.”

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    There is anether legend tould about the ould church at Shanco. Ye know there was a church an' a cashtle there, an' they war connected by an undherground passage.
    Well it was is far back is the fourteenth century that this that Im goin ta tell ye happened.
    It was a young phriesht that was in the disthrict, an it seems he was very poor, an' fot was worshe on him

  9. Local Traditions about St. Mary's Abbey New Ross

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    Mary St. as far as the house opposite the entrance to the Augustinian Church, there, the sound of the drum was lost and there, suffocated Cromwell's soldiers and drummer. So the secret of the underground passage was kept form Cromwell.
    3. This is the cross over which Mr. William Tobin the famous New Ross journalist, who died 50 years ago in the early 'twenties' hoist the Allen Larkin and O'Brien mourning flag in defiance of a government proclamation forbidding the holding of the Manchester Martyrs' procession. The whole story is written in my first record.
    The spire and building seen at the W. side in the picture is St Mary's Protestant Church where Protestant service is held every Sunday at 12 o'clock.

  10. Describing the Making of an Irish Mudwall House

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    The houses built for weavers had one end much wider than the other; and for this reason, the giving of place two looms with a fair passage between each
    The rank soil was then cleaned off from the surface of the sheet both front and rear The digging of the channel clay and pulverizing it in to pulp to a depth of about eighteen inches was a process next proceed with making the matter into a thick mortar by wetting, and mixing with cut rushes or coarse sprat hay
    Then the whole mass was left in sour, to mature, during which time it was turned with grapes and returned, toughen, before the first course would be set on stonework, raised to a level of the surface from the foundation
    The more readily built mudwalls that had the surface earth mixed with channel earth, were known to not have a prolonged existence.
    A great many substantial mudwall houses are still standing in Ireland, and I have hard men and women lament for having left comfortably thatched mudwalls and gone to live in cold stonewall slated dwellings.

  11. The Girl who Went Out to Frighten a Man

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    haunted and that things used be seen by people coming home at night.
    This night anyway the girl said she would frighten him coming home. She got a big white sheet and put it around her and stood out on the passage about the time she thought the lad would be coming. So what do you think happened, but wan [one] of the other men got a sheet and put it around him and went after her.
    Whatever look she gave around she saw the object in white and there she dropped with the fright.
    She was not in the better of it for a long time. She was full sure 'twas a ghost she saw. When she reached the house the Boss asked her what happened her; for she was the colour of death. So she told him the whole story how she went to frighten Pat. Well said the boss I always heard the

  12. (gan teideal)

    “So ye liked the sthory about Seorsa Crucka too, well ta tell ye the thruth I liked the sthory very well me sel when I heard it...”

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    Oh Jabers look sez wan o' the lads, an' away wit him like aflash o' lightnin, an' the resht o' the crowd to his heels.
    It was mesel then that could sit down an' have agood laugh at them, an' for the minnit I forgot entirely about ghoshts or the likes, wit the dint o' laughin at the heroes, an' I ushed ta think ta mesel two agin wan, an' go inta abit o' akink over it, when the nexht thing was I felt this blasht o' win right across me face.
    Damn but Iwasn't long comin to me sel agin, an' I looked up, an' the Lord save us an' bless us, an' shield us from all danger, I got the firsht an' lasht dacint fret, that ever I got in me life. There sthandin in the passage dure lookin at me, was aman dhresshed up all in white, an' sure enough he was the pecture (the Lord save us agin) o' the poor ould school masther Dennis Mc Cloat.
    Imade wan spring, an' away wit me like the win' out through the dure, an' jusht is Iwas goin out on the school gate, didn't Ihit me head against the school wall, an' heavens the lump never left it since, (an' he showed me the lump on his head) an' it effects me any time I get annoyed ever since for I thremble all over. So

  13. (gan teideal)

    “In far back times there was an ould abbey...”

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    In far back times there was an ould abbey, an' Cashtle in the townland now called Kiladoon Nobody round can tell who built them, only that it was said that they war o' the same ordher o' monks is was in Ballindoon Abbey, which was only a mile or so dishtant, an' there was an ould belief that both o' these Abbies war connected by an undherground passage, through which the monks ushed ta eschape from wan Abbey to the other in case there was any danger afoot.
    Kiladoon Abbey was used as a burial lace, before Ballindoon Abbey, but no living person can remember of anywan bein' buried there. There is a legend tould however about the lasht pershon that was buried there.
    It seems some woman died in the disthrict whose people before her war all buried in Kiladoon. It was her wish too, to be buried there, but on account of the graveyard bein' then closhed, agin any future burials, her people had ta take a new plot in Ballindoon, an' they buried her there.
    That very night some - men war sthandin at the wall, beside where the Kiladoon graveyard was. It was about midnight at the time, an' they war all

  14. L.C (a Pervert) Turns Informer

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    passage to Australia and a ranch of land. The Fenians followed him to Australia and he was found shot on his own Ranch. G_C_ often referred to his brother, "What an unfortunate man my brother Lanty was! and what an amount of trouble he brought on himself and all his friends."
    There was a song composed about L_C. and a song composed by Bishop Burke (in Irish) at his own table when having a number of guests to dinner.
    Before you leave me. I will ask you drink a cup of tea with me. I would feel lonesome to think you left without tasting food with me.
    Tea was made and after drinking a refreshing Cup of tea I bid her Good bye.
    "Good bye Miss. Come to visit me again. May the light of Heaven guide Your good steps home, and when you die may the Lord give you a bed in Heaven."

  15. Lantry Informs

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    at Castlerea and at this meeting lots were cast as to who would do the shooting, and that Bernard McH_ and Weldon drew the black balls.
    Weldon and Bernard McH- were arrested on the charge of Murder. The two prisoners brought forward a number of Witnesses who swore they had seen and spoken to the accused men, to Weldon at the Fair of Frenchpark, and to Bernard McH_ at the market in Castlerea on the day and hour of the shooting.
    The two prisoners were found Not Guilty on the charge of murder.
    For being present at an unlawful assembly they were sentenced to 6 months imprisonment.
    Feelings ran high against Lanty C_ The Informer, so the British Government took him for safety to the Tower of London, where he was kept for three years when he was given a free passage to

  16. (gan teideal)

    “There is an underground passage from Damerville...”

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    "There is an underground passage from Dameville
    to Mt Bruis Graveyard. It is ceiled & boarded. About ...
    long. I was often in in it. The "boys" made use of it
    during the trouble. You'd find beautifully carved
    stones & marble lying in the ditches here & there &
    all over the place."

  17. The Hook and the Corn Drawing. Epics of Endurance!

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    The Hook peninsula on the S. Wexford coast is the remotest part of Wexford from town.
    Before the advent of motor transport the people of the peninsula got great hardship getting their corn to town after threshing. It was all horse-drawn and the poor horses as well as the men were strangled getting it done.
    The Hook corn was generally bought by Wexford corn buyers and the trek to Wexford with the car-loads of bags from the Hook was an annual adventure for those hardy people.
    Sixteen to Twenty cars often went together and their passage through the various parishes as they wended their way slowly, up hill and damn hollow, was made easy by pleasant banter between themselves and the people they met along the road.
    They set out together at about 10 in the morning, and reached Wexford with their loads about 7 or 7:30 the following morning, having travelled without all night. They delivered their corn, got a meal and a rest, and faced the return journey in good humour. Men and horses must have favoured a good rest on reaching home, having done almost 100 miles!

  18. The Fenians Had No Grá for the Women

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    McHugh and Weldon (Fenians) got 18 months imprisonment in Roscommon Jail
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    did not deserve being shot.
    Lanty C____ a pervert, informed on McHugh and Weldon, they were arrested for the shooting, the crime could not be proved against them, but for being Fenians, they got eighteen months in Jail. There was a grand song composed about them. "Eighteen months in Jail, Weldon and McHugh I hope they will come through"
    In the song it was told how Lanty was concealed behind a tree in Cushla wood acting the spy.
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    The fate of an Informer.
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    Lanty _____ was taken by the British Government to London (for safety) and after being kept three years in the Tower of London the British Government gave him a free passage out to Australia and a large ranch of land in payment for information given by him. The Fenians followed him to Australia and shot him on his own ranch.
    In my young days there