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  1. Local Fairs

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    There was a fair in the Fourroads long ago and it was given up and it is renewed again, because they were not getting a crowd of people. There was a fair in it last Friday. There were sheep cattle pigs and horses in it. There is also a fair every month in Ballygar.

  2. Severe Weather

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    name was Mrs McDonnell. The bogs moved from Kilmore not far from Ballygar. The night of the big wind was about eighty years ago there were a great many houses knocked down also cocks of hay and a great many people were lost on sea and the people used to have to put weights on the roofs of their houses trying to keep them down because they had thatched houses in the olden times and the houses were made of clay made into mortar and

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    “I was at a fair in Ballygar sixty years ago selling a cow.”

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    I was at a fair in Ballygar sixty years ago selling a cow. A man bought the cow and drew her to if she had any milk. A woman who was looking on ran and put her shoe under the cow to catch the milk.
    The man turned around and said "You bloody ran clear away.

  4. Cobin's Well

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    There is a holy well near Ballygar and people go there on the fifteenth of October each year. They would go around the well fifteen times and then on their knees. They would have fifteen pieces of rushes and then throw one away for each round.
    There was an old woman sitting there once and she had charge of the well. The people would give her a few coppers and she would give them a drink of the water out of a cup. I drank the water there myself.

  5. Hidden Treasure

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    This story was told to me by my father, Laurence Mullen, who lives in Newcastle, which is about three miles from the village of Aughrim. He is about fifty years of age.
    Long, long ago in a poor village a few miles from Ballygar, in County Roscommon, there lived a very poor couple by the name of Pat Daly and his wife, Brigid. They were always quarrelling about a stone being

  6. The Local Roads

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    When we reach the school-gate every day, we see two very old roads. One of them is a very important one, as it is the direct road from Ballygar to Galway.
    It is full of twists and turns, and I heard the old people saying that the Bianconi cars travelled there long ago.
    The other one leads from Ballygar to Ballinasloe, and there are many twists and turns in it also.
    There are many old roads in Gowla that were made by relief work during the Famine period.
    The people who worked at them only got six-pence every day for their labour.
    There is a road in Currafarry, but it is not very old. It is only about a mile in length.
    There are no stones or monuments to the dead along the roads in this district, but they are very plentiful in Sligo.
    There are some Mass paths

  7. Penal Times

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    There is a sandpit in Carr na gCappal Newbridge, Ballygar where there was mass said in Penal Times and no matter what rain or floods it is always dry and it is in low land.
    There is a "Bishop's Chair" in the downland of Killaghton in the Parish of Cappatagle. In olden times the Bishop used to give Confirmation and Holy Orders.

  8. Old Ruins

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    An old Castle stands below Ballygar. It is Castle Kelly.
    A round tower and the ruins of many other buildings that are there. It is said that when O'Sullivan Beare crossed this County it was there he slept on that night. A Protestant Church stood near that place but it now pulled down. That place is six miles from this school.

  9. The Moving Bog

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    was the victim's son who arrived in Dublin on the morning of the catastrophe.
    Those people remained homeless by the land slide were given shelter in Aughnane Castle near Ballygar. The then Parish priest, Canon Kielty, supplied them with food, clothing and bedding and there they remained till the land commission was in a position to provide them with new houses and holdings of land.

  10. Scéal

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    Denis Kelly, who was the last landlord to live in Kilaroran was very cruel to his tenants. Before he died he built a steeple which is to be seen yet. One day he asked a tenant who was a friend of his what did he think of the steeple.
    The tenant said at once: -
    The steeple is built
    And soon may it fall
    And kill Denis Kelly
    Jumpers and all.
    The priest cursed Denis on account of evicting a poor woman. The priest said that Denis Kelly would never have an heir for his land and that he would soon die. He said also that his bones would be eaten by the dogs and that the Protestant Church in Ballygar would be changed into a Catholic Church.
    After a month Denis Kelly died and was buried in a coffin of lead. When the tinkers heard of the lead coffin they dug it and threw away the bones. Dogs came that night and ate nearly all the bones. A few years ago the stones of the Protestant Church in Ballygar

  11. Scéal

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    round Ballygar and Mt. Talbot and was very much for making jumpers by giving soup to the poor. He had two agents named Diamond and Guest. When he wanted anything his tenants he would would send those two out and if they refused those two men their request they would get notice to quit or their rents would be raised. They went into a village one day and met a servant girl. She said to one of those men jumper would you ate a lumper. When those men returned they told Dennis what the girl said to them. He sent them out the following day with notice to the man whom this servant was working for to quit.

  12. Castlecoote, Rookwood, Mount Talbot and Four Roads

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    years ago, when rival armed forces took possession of the mansion alternatively. The preservation of magnificent architecture was evidently not in their line, especially when fight was on for the occupation of the place, with the result that Mount Talbot House is now little better than a ruin. The village of Mount Talbot is a picturesque little place, consisting of a number of scattered cottages along the right hand side of the road from Ballygar to Athleague. Two fairs are held there annually. Recently the boys of the place erected a substantial ball court near Mount Talbot bridge. Four Roads is a little village at the foot of

  13. A Local Story

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    About thirty years ago Joe Mannion met John Arkins, commonly known as John L. They met at Jamsey's turn in Curravaughla. "Will you come to Lanebane races said Joe." By the Hokey" said John, "I don't mind. My clothes are uneven," meaning that the coat and trousers were not of the same colour. "Yearra Musha," said Joe. "Your clothes will pass. It isn't the clothes people will admire it is the peg they hang on." Consoled by Joe's remarks John L made up his mind to prepare. He took his best coat off the line and it was pressed here and there after leaving Jack cheaps hands at Ballygar a few days previous. He fitted on his purchase and turning

  14. The Moving Bog

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    At the foot of Sliabh Murray about five miles from Ballygar there lay a bog of about two thousand acres. Thirty five years ago portion of this bog moved, covering an area of about forty square miles. It moved in the early hours of the morning, and were it not for a young man, who was returning from a card party it would have destroyed fifteen families and their belongings. It had already covered one house, and the sole occupant (an old woman) was lost. It was at a height of thirty feet with a force of water underneath; it kept moving slowly for about six weeks. Portion of it went along the river bank for about ten miles and covered acres of low lying land. At that time

  15. Liam na gCleas

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    There was a man down in Lehenaugh named Liam na gCleas, about one mile from Castleblakeney. He was a great wit. He was noted all over the Co. Galway to be such a great wit. Once he went to confession to a priest down in Ballygar named Father Patrick Mc Govern. He had some great sin and the penanace he gave him was to do three stations on Patrick's reek (Croah Patrick). One morning the priest got up at about six o'clock and when he went out in the Farmyard and he had a big reek of turf in the yard. He saw Liam na gCleas on top of the reek and he walking up and down the reek with his beeds in his hands and the turf falling on all sides. "What are you doing there Liam" said the priest. Im doing three stations on patrick's reek and aren't you Patrick Mc Govern. Come down out of that said the priest and he had a good laugh at him. There

  16. Faction Fights

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    I was told this story by my teacher. She heard it from her father. There is a fair held in Mt. Talbot every year on November 1st. That "place" is about one mile below Ballygar. the river Suck runs through it and it separates Co. Galway from Co. Roscommon. And no one went to that fair without bringing a blackthorn stick with them and there was always a faction fight held on that day between the Co. Galway men and the Co. Roscommon men. It was very common about 50 years ago. But it has all died out now.

  17. A Fair

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    Fairs were not held in towns long ago. They were held on some hill. All the farmers would appoint some day. Then the jobbers would come, and buy their stock. Luck penny is given according to the beasts. When a jobber is making a bargain he takes hold of the seller's hand, then they strike their two hands together, and they finish the bargain. The beasts are marked with raddle. When cows or horses are sold, the bridle is given away with them. The most important fair is held in Ballygar on the eighteenth

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    “There used to be faction fights in Ballaghlea and when the people were coming home a man would take off his coat and leave it on the road...”

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    We got this story from Mrs Connolly, Carton, Ballygar.
    There used to be faction fights in Ballaghlea and when the people were coming home a man would take off his coat and leave it on the road and he would dare any man to walk on the coat and the man who would walk on it the owner of the coat would fight against him and friends on each side would help. The winner of the fight would be first to get a wife. The best faction fighters were Quinn and Hannon.

  19. Rath Brennan

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    As the name is now written, one would be led to think that it has something to do with the surname Brennan. Although Brennan or Ó Braonáin is common in the County these did not come to dwell here till the twelfth and thirteenth centuries. Some of them came from Tipperary and others, feared by the people of the time came from Kilkenny. The old people hold that the place Rath Brennan, (which is situated about two miles west of the town of Roscommon) is called after St. Brendan. This seems to be the correct version as the name is much older that the clan which came to dwell there later. Again some six or seven miles south of this near the town of Ballygar is St. Brendan's well and on the feast day of the patron May 16th the people of this district may be seen wending their way to pray at the well and drink some of the water. This Brendan

  20. Local Happenings

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    Local Happenings
    About forty years ago a bog-slide took place about two miles outside the village of Ballygar. This was due to water at the back of the as it was not drained. A man coming from a wake that