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  1. Fairy Forts

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    There is a "Fairy Fort" in the townland of Toor. The people of the district call it the "lios."
    The "forts" are circular in shape, with a big embankment thrown up as a protection for the people inside, and there is a big trench outside the "fort" from which the earth is taken. This is done especially to keep strangers, from seeing what is going on inside.
    On certain days and nights the fairies have dances and entertainment, and certain lights appear in the fort.

  2. Tournafulla

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    The ass was found in the lands of Oliver Cunningham of Gortnaskehy just beside the village of Tournafulla. The tracks of the ass are visible in the rocks(I have often seen them) and in the driest of seasons they are full of water, I was told, and this water is supposed to be a cure for sore or inflamed eyes. She called it "Bloody Toor", or Tour na Fola. The name Gort-na-skehy, the garden of the briar, may obtain its name from the briar which the saint released from the donkey, and which is growing through the solid rock where the tracks are.

  3. Fort

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    Long ago there was a man who lived in Toor and his name was Tom Strang. He had a fort in his own field and one night he the field where the fort was and (next) the next morning he got up and went up for the horse. When he went up the horse was grazing in the fort. He saw the horse's mane burning and the next night he said he would leave him in the fort for the last time. He went up for the horse the next morning and when he went up the horses tail was burned, and he did not leave the horse in it anymore. It was said after-words that anyone should not leave a horse grazing in

  4. Evictions in Kilcash

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    broke on the hearse. The people all said he wanted to come out for a sit down.
    He had two sisters who went to live in Clonmel and his wife could never live with him, she went to work at Kehoes in Toor.

  5. Bread

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    Oaten bread and barley bread were made long ago. Querns were used for grinding wheat, and are to be seen today in houses in Toor. Oaten bread was made with water and it was baked on a griddle. A brand was put down first on the fire and the griddle on top of it. Straw they baked the bread with and baked the sides in front of the fire. The cake would be cut in four quarters for the cake would be large. The oaten bread was made from water and also from barm the substance left after beer. No bread soda was used and it would be as hard as a board. All the old people had good teeth in those days. Oaten bread made with cream was called "rotten bread", this bread was made for the tea. Potato cake was also made but it was used more down the valley than up in the mountain.

  6. Herbs - Herbs for Personal Ailments

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    In the townland of Toor three miles from Tipperary town herbs were very much used. The "slanless" washed and cut up cured cuts. The juice of a dockleaf was put to peeling lips; a dockleaf also cured nettle rash. The root of the dandelion steeped in sour milk cured warts, the of the stem of dandelion was a cure for teeth aches. The laurel leaf was boiled in lard and reduced to pulp, the mixture was applied to urns to cure them. Robin-run-the-hedge was boiled and drank as a cure for chest trouble.

  7. (gan teideal)

    “As the Rev Mr Falconer Killucan...”

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    have collected and written most of the folk lore of the district it is (not)(?) necessary for me to tap fresh sources of supply(?). This I did by consulting some of the old stock in the school area. I could get very little reliable folklore from the school children as they live mostly in the villages of Rathwire and Killucan and their parents do not belong to the old stock. I found it impossible to get much folk lore from Mr Briscoe Curristown, and Mr Patrick Keegan Toor(?) Killucan both of these men are highly educated and take a keen interest in the history of the district. They feel shy about saying anything relating to the folklore of the neighbourhood. They are both about eighty years old and I know that they have a wonderful knowledge of the history of the locality. I may still be able to elecit some interesting stories from them.

  8. Paddy Murphy

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    About eighty years ago, there was a man called Paddy Murphy who used to go from Toor to Johnstown "to mitch". One evening as he was going, a crowd of horsemen came up to him. They stopped, and one called out to bring up a horse and put Paddy Murphy up on it. Paddy had to mount and they went galloping through Kildare and the King's and Queen's Counties and on over the Barrow and back over the Liffey, and to the place from where they took him. At the King's river they stopped, and a man called out "Hei over such a horse, and

  9. Penal Times

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    In Stacks Bog in Toor Duagh there is a rock called Carraig an Puirc? And upon this rock a priest named Father Walsh used say Mass. Every morning a crowd of people used gather around this rock and hide themselves between reeks of turf and bogdeal for fear the soldiers would notice the crowd and come and destroy them. The tabernacle was made of turf . every morning the priest would bury the chalice and other things near the rock until the next morning. One morning as the people were coming to Mass, the soldiers saw them and they waited to see where the people were going. As soon as they saw the people hiding they ran after them and when they found the priest they mocked him and spilled the chalice. The they threw the Chalice away. And then they got a pinchers and pulled off his the hair of the priest’s head. The

  10. Family History

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    The bean sidhe is said to follow the ODonnell's also Many people are said to haveheard her crying the night before death occured in this family. She also follows the Foxes. ús Sionnaigh
    Lyons Bawndonnell. Farmers.
    Mary Lyons:- School girl.
    Father:- William Lyons
    Paternal Grandfather and Grandmother Henry Lyons and Margaret Walsh from Toor.
    Greatgrandfathers:-
    James Lyons and John Walsh.
    Mother:- Brigid Shelly from South Lodge.
    Maternal Grandfather and Grandmother:- Thomas Shelly and Mary Ann Fox from Tullohea.
    Great Grandfathers and Grandmothers:- Gerald Shelly and James Fox.
    Mary Nolan from Toor and Catherine Cahill from Templemichael.
    When my Great Grandfather, James Lyons died, my father told me that there was singing heard and a light seen in the room.

  11. (gan teideal)

    “One night about 27 years ago I was coming from a fair in Listowel.”

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    One night about 27 years ago I was coming from a fair in Listowel. I was not anyway drunk and as I came along to Toor I saw as I thought a nice red fire a few spades in on Maher's mountain for on I going back in the morning about nine o'clock there were people cutting litter on that very spot. I thought of course that it was so they had left a fire they had for cooking or reddening their pipes lighting after them so I went in. Stooping down to pick up a coal the whole fire rose up into the sky flying along the glen down into the Knockadereen meadows a distance of a mile. Many a time I have seen a light like that. Tadhg Ruadh told me one time a light such as that was a glow-worm but I know it is not. I am sure it is "Jacky-the-Lantern". For years I have known this light to be appearing in the height of the road and coming along the bogs to the front of this house. One night and I coming from rambling I saw it appearing on the road. I stood at the end of the house and it came along to the front on

  12. (gan teideal)

    “In the townland of Lisnoc, Duagh there is a nice pleasant meadow known as the "Cathair Geal".”

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    She died a few months after marrying. Then the house turned out to be haunted and Lyons had to leave it. He put a chimney in azine stall and up to this day it is there his people live. They made a stall of the new house but he knocked one room of it the reason I don't know. Some people used to say the reason it was haunted was its being built of the stones of the "Cathair Geal". There is not much of a wall around it today but you could plainly see the circle. What it was for I never found out. Some say they were pounds for cattle made by the Danes. There is another of its kind in the lands of the Buckleys of Toor and Meenanaor (Mín an Ár) but not as big - about three Quarters of ground. A boundary fence runs through the centre of it. It is covered with bushes + trees. It is also in a very elevated place like the "Cathair Geal". It was said wherever there was one of its kind there was two others in the view but I could point out no other only those two.

  13. Historical Tradition

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    People in this district still speak of a former movement called "moonlighting" being carried on, on a large scale in this area in the year 1882 or thereabouts.
    Several men were sentenced to long terms of imprisonment for having a "hand" in the movement or being suspected of having.
    Among those sentenced were Patrick Cronin of Toor. Dan and Mick Galvin and Con Mc Auliffe also of Creggane who were sentenced for moonlighting a house owned by Brigid Linnane which was situated inside the ditch of the road opposite "Batemans" gate.

  14. Gleann an Ghadaí - The Robber's Glen

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    lies under the mountain peak known as 'Blackrock' (Carraig Dubh an iolair) & lies between the townlands of Toor & Fanningstown. All that I have been able to find out is that 'the black robber Duane' made a refuge of the glen. In the glen is the small waterfall known as Eas Mór (Spout mór the people call it now). The volume of water is small though the fall is about 20ft or so in height. It may be interesting to recall that in this connection the old & present parish of Ballingaddy (Baile an Ghadaidhe) lies a half mile or so to the north stretching from Ardpatrick to where it meets the parish of Kilmallock north of Ballingaddy church.
    I have not been able to get any tradition regarding their connection.

  15. Local Clergymen

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    In 1890, two years after he was appointed Parish Priest, he undertook the work of further enlarging the Church at Newport. The end of the long aisle was pulled down, the Church extended about tweny feet and the belfy erected. Hitherto the bell had hung on a temporary structure in the church yard. At the same time he took the contract of improving the approach to the church and had Chapel Lane resurfaced and a flagged side-walk put down.
    The old school at Birdhill, the gable of whcih still stands, half a mile on the same road below the present one, was totally inadequate and with the hel of the parishioners he got erected, the present fine school, together with the teacher's residence. He would have wished to build nearer to the village of Birdhill, but Mr. Going of Cragg kindly gave the present site free, and he availed of the offer. He also, about the same time, got erected the present nice little school and residence at Toor, and thus the out districts of the Parish were now well equipped with churches and schools.
    Rev Thomas Meaher succeeded Father Bourke

  16. The Old Mass Houses

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    were two of these - one at Toor and the other in Foildarrig near the "Four Roads". The Church at Foildarrig was called Kilpatrick or "Patrick's Church" possiby because it was dedicated to St. Patrick. It stood in Michael Bourke's field near the old fort. It was 30 ft long, 17ft wide and 10 feet high. The walls were of stone and mortar and were 3ft 3ins thick. This was the Church built by the Catholics to replace the one seized by the Protestants at Kilnerath. It was a substantial building and must have served its purpose for almost 200 years. Fragments of the walls were standing in 1840 when O'Donovan visited it but the cemetery which was beside it effaced and the land tilled up to the very walls of the Church. It is said that Albert Lee of Barna House took the stones of the old building soon after O'Donovan's visit to build some houses in his farmyard where they stand to day. Not a trace remains now of this Church of Kilpatrick, even the exact spot on which it stood cannot be pointed out with certainty.
    + Mile north west of the village of Newport

  17. Old Crafts

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    was made out of the mountain ash berries.
    The boys used make tops out of old reels and used have a nail for a spear. When the snow used be there they used make cribs for the birds to catch them. The cribs used be made out of elder sticks and briars. The briars were put there for the bird to perch on and a gablóg put under it to keep it standing. They also used to get a turnip and scoop out the inside. Then they would put eyes, a nose, and mouth in the turnip to represent a person. Then they would get a lighted candle and put it down in it as the inside would be empty. They would put it up on the fence or on a gate then to frighten the people passing by. They used to call it Jack O' the lantern. Lime was also burnt around here and in Dunphys field there was a lime kiln in Toor. James Flynn was the lime burners name. There is a hollow to be seen in the

  18. Ghosts

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    A few years ago it happened that some neighbours wanted a house over near "Toor Cross" on the road to Burncourt. This house is called McCullip's. It is uninhabited for years. They argued over it for some time, so at length, one man made up his mind to remain in the house all night.
    At midnight that night, he heard a quaint noise, and on entering the house, immediately there appeared a calf drawing a little cart.
    He got an awful fright,

  19. (gan teideal)

    “The castle of Porterstown was built they say by a man named Porter.”

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    The castle of Porterstown was built they say by a man named Porter. There was a hamlet at the foot in later years also some houses in the Boreen leading up to the castle. Over west of it is a hill called Tulta where there was a sheeling in former times. They say there were two men murdered at this sheeling. Toor is also to the west of Porterstown. A longer road led in to it from the (-). This is a hill on the road from the mill to Coralstown chapel. It was the burial place of still born children.

    Near Porterstown is a place called Cauc Duch where an old resident said he met a Leprechaun. The name of places and cabins on the road between Footy's Bridge and the mill are still pointed out such as Hethersons Hill, Rully's field, Dans Walk, Brogans hollow. Where the Riverstown garden is now there was a shop in the wall in which was sold

  20. Holy Wells

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    There is a well about a mie from my house called St Biseach's well. It is siatuated in a big field called Ballynaacroigh and it is said that there is a cure for bleeding in it.
    This well is visited on Tuesdays and Fridays when you visit this well you have to leave a bit of your clothes on the bush over hanging the well.
    Cromins well is on the left hand side of Toor road about a mile from Ballynacargy. It is now owned by people by the name of Flood