Local Roads.
The names of the local roads are the Avenue, the New Line and Byrne's Road. The Avenue leads from Cloghernagh to Orchardstown. The New Line leads from Kilmacleague to Ballymintre. Byrne's Road leads from Corbally to Leperstown. The Avenue was made before the Famine but it was only a borrein; but during the Famine it was made level. This was done as a relief work. The New Line and Byrne's Road were made as to give relief work. There are some old roads in my district. These roads are still used.

to kill him. Overtime they threw a shot he caught it in his hand. He said no one could kill him only one of his own religion.A young Catholic man named Corbally took a gun from one of the soldiers. They promised him £5 if he would kill the priest. He fired and killed him dead.
Since then Boynagh Cross is unlucky and when a person gets hunted there he or she will die immediately after.
The Priests name is believed was Father Rieily.

There are places around here where people meet the " FEAR GORTA ". The person who meets him becomes weak as if were from hunger even though he may have taken a meal a short time before. A drink or even a sweet will leave him alright again. One place frequented by the Fear Gorta is about three miles from Castlepollard on the road to Mullingar - just in the shadow of Knock Eyon. Another place is Putgarra in Toneyowen.
A STRAY SODIn the district there are certain fields in which there are stray sods. One of those fields belongs to James Sweeney, Ballycomoyle and another to McCormicks in Corbally. If a person walks on this sod especially at night.

Once upon a time there lived in Corbally a man named Goban Saor. He had two sons who used to help him build houses. He was asked to build a house for Lord Easbory who lived in England. Lord Easbory had a plan that he would kill the (two) Goban Saor and his two sons if he asked too much wages. The Goban Saor heard his plans and sent his two sons home to Gorbally a district near my home for a certain tool he needed to finish the house. The Lord's son went with them so that they would not say too long away. They went in the room where the tools were kept in a box. It was a very deep box and when the Lord's son stooped into the box to get the tool they pushed him in and closed down the lid. The two sons then sent word to England that they would keep him prisoner unless the Goban Saor was let go home. Then Lord Easbory gave him a large sum of money and sent him home Then they released the Lord's son.

There are some fairy forts in the school district. In the townland of Carpenterstown there are four forts. They are on hills and within view of one another. They are all circular in shape. One of these forts is situated in a field of Mr. Cooneys, called the Paddock. There was a cave going from the fort to the Bush field but it was closed some time ago. There is another in Seery's field, it has a fence of earth round it and is on a hill. The third one is in a field belonging to Miss Fagan. There is a cave beside this fort, but no old person can tell where it leads to as no person went into it to explore it. The mouth of this cave was closed up a few years ago as a sheep belonging to the owner of the field went into it and never returned. My father Patrick Coyle told me that some time ago music and singing was heard in this cave night after night. The other fort in this townland is about a quarter of a mile from the one in Miss Fagan's field, in a field belonging to Miss McGinn. There is no hole in the centre or elsewhere in this fort. There are two forts in Corbally, one in Mat Fagan's field and the other in Mrs Ginnell's

Edmonton School is in the parish of Killucan Barony of Farbill Co. Westmeath. There seems to be no explanation as to why the townland is Edmondstown and the school Edmonton, nor of the name Huntingdon Electoral division in which the school is situated - though locally called Huntingtown. The name Huntingtown may be accounted for by the fact that the greater portion of the district is and has been owned by the Purdon family of Lisnabin Castle - well known followers of the Westmeath Fox Hounds.
An old road can still be traced running by the boundary wall of Palmer Estate (Clonlost) through land owned by Mr. King - Corbally Cemetery and also through land of Lisnabin - probably out to the road from Killucan to

of some building. The land for some distance around is never tilled, as the building is said to have been a chapel in ancient times, and though no graves now exist, yet unbaptised children are supposed to be interred here. Lights, called "Will the Wisp", are frequently seen to travel from this place to the sight of the churchyard, in what is known as "the Church field", at Narraghbeg,a mile away to the west.
There is a well beyond the castle ruins, and a quarter of a mile from Nolan's house, called Cashin's Well, and sometimes St. James's Well, which, though not now held in veneration was once a Blessed Well. A predecessor of the Nolans (who were in Corbally long before '98) and tenant of the farm, wished to cut down a large white-thorn bush which grew beside the well, for firing. For this purpose he left his home, which is round the shoulder of the hill, and came to the bush. Just as he was about to use the hatchet on it, he saw a bright glare where his house stood, and thinking it was on fire, threw down the hatchet, and ran back to the house which, however, he discovered to be safe, and no sign of fire about it. Wondering to himself at this strange occurrence, he returned to

wheel of a car he takes off the band of the wheel and puts it in the fire. He has a big stone outside with a hole in the centre. He puts the stock of the wheel in this hole and hammers it. When the band is red he takes it out and hammers it with a sledge on to the wheel.
Long ago the smiths had the privilege of shoeing all the noblemens horses They were paid, very highly for this.
There is a forge at Corbally cross. It is not used now. The entance is a large door shaped like a horse shoe. It was a smith that made this horse shoe and nailed it on to the

There are four Graveyards in this parish. There is one in the town landof Rearymore. There is a new Cemetery in the town land of Corbally near the village of Rosenallis. There is a Protestant Graveyard at the back of the Protestant Church in the village of Rosenallis. There is another Protestant Graveyard called the "Sleeping Place." It is situated in the town land of Tinneel. The graveyard in Rearymore is very old. The one at the back of the Protestant Church, and Rearymore Graveyard are not used as burial places. The other two are still in use. There are none of those graveyards round in shape. The new Cemetery is sloped in a northern direction and the remainder are are level. The ruins of St.Finian's are in the Graveyard in Rearymore. There are a great many tombstones in those Graveyards.Some of them are like the cromlechs that were in ancient Ireland. Some of them have writing on them. I searched Rearymore Graveyard and i found the following dates, on the tombstones 1780,1790, 1870, 1825,and

There is no ruined castle in this district.There is a ruined abbey in the neighbourhood of Reary. It is supposed to have been the Abbey of Saint Fianian and it is also supposed to have destroyed and plundered by Cromwell's "iron sides"
There are no ruins of a round tower in the district, But there was a round tower in the place where the "Green School" now stands it was destroyed in the year 1879 and even then the ruins of it were only left. There are two of old wind mills in the school district. One of which is behind the Catholic Church and another which is in the townsland of Rynn.The wall surrounds the old cemetery in Corbally is part of an old church.In one part of this wall there is the remains of the entrance door. This church was called St,Mary's Church.It was a Catholic Church.

There are three forges in the parish of Raheen. One in Cromogue owned by Patrick Coogan and another in Corbally owned by Timothy Dalton and another in Cappanaclough owned by Mr. Lodge. The one in Cromogue is our local forge.
A forge is a large shed in which a smith works. Coogan's forge has a felt roof and a large square door. There is also another shed beside the forge in which iron and coal and such things are kept.
The smiths shoe horses and asses and ponies and repair farm implements such as ploughs and harrows and grabs and they also repair mowing-machines and binders and they also bind cart wheels. They do most of their work inside but they have to bind wheels outside and

The ruined church of Rathaspick stands on a slight eminence about 300 yards to the left of the road leading from Simmonds Cross to Stradbally. The present church is not the original catholic church of Rathaspick as it was pulled down by the protestants in the last half of the 10th century. About 1560 Colonel Cosby marched from Stradbally to capture this church as it was known to contain sacred vessels of great value. The old priest who lived in Corbally got word of Cosby's intention and appealed to Oweny O'Moore who lived in a castle on the road leading from Gregory's Cross to Castletown. Portion of this castle is still standing in a field beside the road surround by a moat. O'Moore called together his clansmen and marched to meet Crosby.
They met in a glen south of Rathaspick and a fierce battle was fought. O'Moore routed

This school is situated in the townland of Harristown, called in Irish Baile h-Annraoí. Harristown is square in shape and each side is about one mile in area. It is in the Parish of Templeorum, in the barony of Iverk, in south Kilkenny, and is in the centre of a district known as the Walsh Mountain.Harristown is between four and five hundred feet over sea level. The land slopes from the north east corner to the South and East.It is bounded on the north by Lismatigue; on the south by Milltown and Corbally, on the south west by Ashtown, on the west by Kilmogue, on the east by Bally Knock and Ballintubber. Streams form the boundaries on the south and east.

Journeying from Athy the Saint entered Carlow in the parish of Graney. Old Church here in Knockpatrick. Also large granite rock said to contain impressions of the Saint's feet. St. Patrick's Well also nearby. He passed thence to Corbally, east of Knockpatrick, thence to the Slaney, crossing it at Rathmore (ancient residence of some of the Kings of Holy Carr Sealaigh[?]). He passed to Tubberpatrick (Haroldstown Parish). Proceeding still eastward he crossed the river Deereen at Acaun, where there is an ancient holy well and ancient cemetery. On the other side of the road is a large Cromlech. There is a tradition that being blocked in his journey by the Red Bog of Carrick and that he blessed all Ireland except this bog. East of this, beside the hill of Carone[?] a' Leagh is St. Martin's Well, called after the Bishop of Tours, St. Patrick's kinsman. Thence the Saint proceeded to Rathvilly (St. Patrick's Well here).Joseminus (Bishop Fith) had here laboured with considerable success among some small tribes, who dwelt by the Slaney.

thatch on them, and the other our are slated. there are two old people in Stranatone over seventy years - James McEntee and Mary Corbally. The land is hilly with a small patch of bog. there is a river at every side of the townland. The name of the largest river is the Glyde, and the other is Ponines.
Derrynaglagh:- There are ten families in this townland and fifty inhabitants. The family name of Lambe is the most common, there being two families which hold the same name. There are ten houses in it, five of them are thatched and the remaining five are slated. Derrynaglagh means the hill of the stones. The soil is good, but some of it is boggy and subject to floods.

once known by the name of Aith-Tighe-Ruaidhrí. When the people were dispossessed in 1641, one part was given to a man named Rogers or Ruadry and the other part to a man named Finlay, and hence named Aith-Tigh-Fiannlaoith.
Coillte:-Is a townland about two miles from Carrick-on-Shannon. It is said that long ago there was a large forest there. Wild animals lived there and tradition tells of it being the wood of the fairies.
Corbally:-Is the name of a townland situated a half a mile from Jamestown. Long

After the penal laws in Ireland there were not many public school. In order that the people would be able to read and write temporary schools were established. Those schools were called hedge-school, as they were usually built in lonely valleys or woods. There is the remains of one of those hedge-schools in Ardcroney parish, our neighbouring parish.There is a glen situated about two hundred yards from Ardcroney cross, called Gleann-na-Bóna. In this lonely place a hedge-school was situated. This school existed up to seventy years ago, for many of the old people still living went to school there.Gleann-na-Bóna School was built in a sand-pit. The excavation was scooped out, so that the back wall and the two gable-ends were formed without any building. The front wall with a door and two windows were built of scraws laid along in rows. The local farmers cut sedge, in Corbally bog nearby, to roof the school. When the school was built it was opened by Mr. Smith, whose father taught in Ardcroney N.S. afterwards.When the school first started it was attended by 150 scholars. They wrote on slates. They had

This parish is situated in the barony of Owney and Ara 4 1/2 miles from Nenagh on the shores of Lough Derg. It comprises two districts Youghal and Burgess Beg. The district of Youghal Ara comprised 4,515 acres in 1837 the population was 4,247.
The disctrict of Burgess contains 4,749 statute acres and in 1837 its population was 3,570 persons. On average half of the population of 1837 gives the present population of Ireland but in country parishes the present day population is sometimes only 1/4 of the population that existed before the famine. The area of this parish seems to be 11,973 st acreas. In Youghal district there is a considerable quantity of mountain but capable of being reclaimed. There are extensive slate quarries Curraghbally, Corbally, Cloneybrien. This parish is watered by the Newtown & Youghal rivers. The name Youghal Ara is derived from two Irish words Eocaill - yew trees and Ara which means charioteer.
The name Burgess Beg is derived from two words one English and the other Irish. Burgess Borris Burris & Burghes are different forms of the same word introduced by the Anglo Normans in the 12th century to signify the small borough towns

The old people say it is a very bad thing for the unborn child to 'pelt' anything at a woman in the 'family way'. They also say that if the woman who is struck, immediately touches any part of her own body that it is exactly on the same part of the unborn child's body the birthmark will appear.
Mrs M -, Ennis, who was carrying child at the time, was sitting at the table one day having her dinner and out of fun, one of the others diners threw a skin of a potato at her and stn? her in the face. When her child, a boy, was born there was a birthmark about the size of the potato skin that was thrown at her at the dinner on the child's hip.
Mrs. R -, Limerick City, who was near having a baby, was going up the stairs one day. Somebody threw a dishcloth which struck Mrs. R -, on the small of the back. When the baby, a boy, was born, a birthmark, the shape of a dishcloth was on the back of the child.
Told by Mrs. William Macnamara, Corbally, Quin

courting a servant-boy who worked for a loyalist. He told his master. The master told the police and in a few days Clune's house was surrounded. Clune's own gun was in a hay-stack in the haggard, and though the police went within a foot of it they never found it. The other guns had been distributed: the police were baffled. Clune escaped and remained on the run for some time. (Mr Clune & Mr Moloney)
Evictions during the land-war were few. In Killula Jean Casey, Pat Hickey and John Hogan were evicted. The landlord was Martin of Corbally and the agent was Stackpoole. William Harding of Clarecastle and James Coffey of Crowhill served periods of imprisonment for their opposition to the bailiffs. Michael Lynch of Clenagh was also evicted. At Casey's of Trenahow the bailiffs met with determined resistance. Men stood behind barricades ready to fight the issue. A settlement, however was arrived at. Some tenants in the Dromoland estate were removed to other holdings, and their former holdings were made part of the castle demesne.
The Irish language revival found Tradree entirely English-speaking, and